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Re: The Mystery of the non existent Hospital
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lugnet.town
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Thu, 2 Mar 2000 06:44:09 GMT
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On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 02:43:07 GMT, "Sanjay D'Souza" <sds87@hotmail.com>
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> Secondly, the range available in the US in the early 80's was far and away
> better than the rest of the world. US only sets like Main Street, Exxon Gas
> Station, Public Works Center dominated the range back then.
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> Up to 1990 there was a clear difference between US and non US LEGOLAND
> ranges, most clearly evident by the availability of the Exxon sets from 1979
> to 1984. The Cargo Centers #6377 and #6391 continued this trend until the
> mid 80's. After that Shop @ Home became the source of further US only sets.
> The only decent town bank #1490, the car crane #1484 and the first space
> shuttle #1682 were sets that were only availble from S@H in the US.
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> Getting back to the subject of the hospital, it would have been a great
> addition to the Town range. Judging by the picture it does look good enough
> to have been marketed at the time. Unfortunately it wasn't and Town fans
> and to wait an agonising 8 years before a hospital set was introduced in the
> form of #6380.
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> Sanjay
So let me get this straight. What you're saying is that I not only
have a hard to find Exxon Gas Station, but a hard to find space
shuttle AND the first hospital? And to think that I always thought
that was the second or third hospital (I had seen the above mentioned
picture waaaay back when when I was about 5 years old).
> Millennium City @ http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~jsds
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 | | Re: The Mystery of the non existent Hospital
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| Kya Morden wrote in message <38be0d67.6163361@lu...et.com>... (...) The Exxon Gas Station has appeared quite a lot on Ebay recently and the Space Shuttle appears twice a blue moon. The #6380 hospital on the other hand makes a frequent appearance on (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: The Mystery of the non existent Hospital
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| Brad Hamilton wrote in message ... (...) A couple of observations I've made about the early US LEGOLAND range is that articulated minifigs appeared in the US a year later than in the rest of the world. Why this is I have no idea. Secondly, the range (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.town)
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