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3 Republic Cruisers and 3 Tie-Crawlers. The RC is a beauty *wub* *wub* *wub* !

Building & RB On

copmike

oO , 3 RCs?

Ok then have fun tonight :P

Today i was in Legoland Germany SW weekend , i bought a few parts from factory , and 1pack of Hein Jans Weapons!!

Yoda did you bought all Tie Crawlers 8-

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oO , 3 RCs?

Ok then have fun tonight :P

Today i was in Legoland Germany SW weekend , i bought a few parts from factory , and 1pack of Hein Jans Weapons!!

Yoda did you bought all Tie Crawlers 8-

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Obi-Wan |-/!

Replacement parts On

copmike

I haven't got mine in yet, actually, I never even got an email accknowleging my email (I usually get one). I hope their not avoiding me! :-| ;-)

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Went a shoppin for Lego

Bought

-Final Joust(Yes I know I'm late but they had been sold out :-D )

Nice Little set

Castle Line is sweet!!

Smackdown 2,Indiana Jones Lego,SW 2008 Pics and Castle 2008 ON!!!

Piranha

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I decided that because I'm so obsessive compulsive that I must finish off that beautiful Vikings line *wub* !

So I bought the Vikings Artillery Wagon! It is a great army builder set which is the absolute most perfect combination of build and play! *sweet*

It is a nice, detailed realistic wagon with an ingenious firing mechansim that will have you playing with it for hours! (believe me, I've done it!)

Batbrick Away! >:-)

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Yesterday I went to the toy store to see if they had the summer sets (which in Italy can be easily called "fall sets", since they always come out in September)...nothing! I hate Italian shops!

I bought another grey 48x48 baseplate.

Shakar

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Yesterday, I bought some bricks from the P@B in LEGOLAND Deutschland. But I don't buy a lot, compared to someones... The next time, it will be different!

Middle blue suitcase on!

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Seems like the place for this ... I need help (well duh, we all knew that ... shush you ... make me ... I will!) *cough* Ok. All better now.

When I get the chance, I buy weird old LEGO sets, just to see what's in them or to try to restore a piece of the past. LEGO used to produce a lot of what we would now expect to see in buckets; generic assortments of mostly bricks and windows and such. I like the old ones because they have really useful windows that are no longer in production and to use for restoring other real sets (plus the plastic quality so far has been amazing). I avoid the extremely old pre-ABS bricks, however.

Well, in this case (and it really is in a case too), I picked up a set 502-1 which, from my research, was an FAO Schwartz exclusive from Samsonite in 1967. Trick is, according to the peeron inventory, I have a conglomeration of parts from a variety of sets and some from an earlier time period.

It's one of those parts that has me stumped. It's sort of like 2 2x2 plates, attached by a thin plastic stem, but they aren't plates, as the bottoms are made like baseplates (can't be stuck on top of anything). The studs have the older style dog-bone LEGO logo and the white plastic is much more of a translucent nature than usual, sort of like pearl white now.

I can't even figure out a use for this part, except perhaps to attach two vehicles together from underneath, much like you would a train and it's cars, but I looked up trains from back then and they don't seem to use this (plus it isn't flexible enough to allow turning).

It's a complete mystery to me. Ideas?

As a reference, I can clearly identify parts in here from possibly an earlier time, but it all depends on how much old stock Samsonite was clearing out. There are a couple of full bodied old style red 1x1 round bricks for example.

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Oh, and one other weird discovery. I've found a few plates with misaligned LEGO logos. Not something simple like all of them facing at an angle, oh no, this is much more fun. Imagine a 2x4 plate where 7 of the logos are in one direction, and one is turned 90 degrees to the right. Now try a 1x2 plate where the two face each other instead of being in the same direction. How about a 2x4 where 6 are the same, one is 45 degrees from that, and the last one is upside down? It completely shakes my faith in my own understanding of how they are made, since I thought the logos were part of the mold. Apparently, they weren't back then? These are all the dog-bone style era logo, the ones after that are all perfectly aligned.

It's a fun little mystery sometimes, except when I can't figure it out.

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Two days ago, I went to my supermarket to see if, by any chance, they have the set of summer. And tada! They have them! They have just been put on the shelves and the prices weren't indicated. That didn't stop me to take all the set I needed and wanted:

-7009 the final joust for 6,79

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