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Lionel and LEGO
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Wed, 19 Apr 2000 15:17:42 GMT
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One of the members of WAMALUG spotted this in an ebay auction recently.
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=311415275
At a Greenberg show last Feburary, I was talking to a lionel dealer who
asked me if I had ever heard that back in the 1950/60's Lionel had a
brief deal with LEGO to produce a helicopter on a flatcar. He said some
were produced but people were glueing baseplates to a standard car and
building a helicopter on it, thereby counterfitting the original. I had
never heard of this before and checked around briefly, with no results.
The seller states this is from 1995 Stocking Stuffer's catalog, so maybe
they reissued a new version of the original attempt. Does anybody know
anything about this?
-Chris
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| Thanks for pointed this Acution out. I browsed a few other Lionel Auctions (I did not know it existed), some of there stuff is quite impressive. I loved the train on this sign: (URL) I did find this a little quirky: (URL) there a site dedicated to (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
| | | Re: Lionel and LEGO
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| (...) I have a 1995 Stocking Stuffer's catalog. The flatcar with helicopter is in it, however my understanding is that it was never produced. The seller could be selling either counterfeits or preproduction models. The are not real LEGO either, but (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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