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Re: History of LEGO Windows...revisited
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 12 Jan 2000 15:55:09 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Mark Koesel writes:
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> In my estimation, the first set to include the type 3 cylinders would be
> set 374 Fire Station from 1978. I don't have this set, but it clearly
> comes with trans-blue cylinders, and I'm pretty certain that those (and the
> other colored transparent cylinders) were only released as type 3. TLC
> probably phased cylinders in existing colors to type 3 over a period of a
> couple years.
Whereas my 590 has solid studs. I got this set from a yard sale in the mid
'80s. The only cylinders in the box were two yellow ones, all thee rest were
missing.
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> Incidentally, the minifig was first released in 1978, not 1977 as I stated
> in my previous post. The lugnet DB lists some early town sets with minifigs
> as 1977 sets, but all other media suggests that they are actually 1978 sets.
590 was a 1977 set, and it has minifigs.
Jeff
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| Jeff Stembel <aulddragon@wamalug.org> wrote in message news:Fo8C7x.71s@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) mid (...) were (...) Aha, of course -- set 590 Engine Co. No. 9. I actually have (or had -- can't remember if I sold that one or not) that set too. (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| Remy Evard <evard@mcs.anl.gov> wrote in message news:8EB8E1D63evardm...net.com... (...) This intrigued me so I went and checked mine out too. Mine are definitely type 3. This is not so surprising, since this set was released around the time of the (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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