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So I'm over at the mother-in'law's place on the weekend, for Mother's Day
(of course).
Seems that she was at a school rummage sale a few weeks back, and saw two
LEGO grey baseplates for 25 cents (that's 25 cents for *both*--very nice!)
So she got her quarter out, and walked away with 2 baseplates for her future
son-in-law.
LI love my in-laws--for Christmas, soon-to-be Father-in-law gave me 3 new XL
grey baseplates--I was pretty happy.
But the story doesn't end there.
So I'm at the in-laws' house on Sunday, soon-to-be mom gives me these
baseplates. I'm all excited--they look very good--no damage and stuff.
But I think that there is something not quite right about them. Couldn't
put my finger on it.
Then I bring the baseplates back to my place at the end of the evening.
I put them on my stack of 12 other grey baseplates, start going to do
something else but stop. Pause... 'Hey, there's something wrong with that
stack!' i think to myself. I actually didn't say it out loud, for I haven't
gotten to *that* stage yet--y'know, where I start really talking to myself...
Anyway, I look at the stack--mayhaps there's something underneath the two
baseplates I got from the mom-in-law 'cause they look like they're sitting
higher than the rest.
I check.
Well, no, they're not resting on top of anything.
Then I take one of them and put another one from the pile on top of it.
It's two studs wider! It's 50 studs by 50 studs (not the 48x48 like my 12
others).
Wow.
That's kinda interesting!
I have 1 baseplate from when I was a kid--probably got it somewhere in the
middle of the '70's and it was 48 x 48.
So where did these 50x50's come from?
There's my find of the week.
Dave K
-who is really loving his new extended family--they support my LEGO
addiction, er, I mean hobby.
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| (...) Ya, I have one of these that I used as kid. I must have used it a lot too because many of the studs are well worn. Some to the point of the Lego logo missing, other are almost dome shaped. They are a bit annoying these days though, because (...) (22 years ago, 13-May-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) Cheaper than the original price! :-O (see below for more) (...) (URL) right corner, set #799: notice the dimensions in centimeters, they represent exactly 50x50 studs! (...) *Your* FOTW? ;-) (...) :-) Gotta love 'em! Pedro (22 years ago, 13-May-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) I dunno, I have a pair too. I think they're older ones: (URL) always have them left out of my layout modules, because they're non standard, so I pick them first when starting a new project (because I never have enough 48x48's around), then (...) (22 years ago, 14-May-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) Speaking of odd base plates, does anyone know where my yellow 16x18 came from? I got 2 in a garage sale last weekend. I searched through various inventory database and found nothing, although they are available on bricklink shops. (22 years ago, 14-May-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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