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I've not been posting recently because I've been trying to curb my Lego spending - I found myself nearly justifying £1000 of sets that I didn't really want; I just felt like the collector in me needed them.
So I logged out of everywhere - and then this popped up on my Facebook, and I am so excited, it's reminded me of what spending money on Lego should be like: because I desperately want to build something, not because I fear it being part of a set that I "need".
€219,99 in Germany
would it be better to go to Germany to buy it?
that after all is €30.
From 1961-65 all USA Samsonite LEGO elements were produced at the Stratford Ontario Samsonite plant (until April 1965 when the Loveland Colorado USA plant opened up). And all USA bound sets had their boxes produced in the Detroit Samsonite plant... which also had the USA LEGO model shop... until 1965 when it moved to Colorado.
Here is a 1962 Toys & Novelties magazine article talking about it......
Images from Chapter 73 of my Collectors Guide... "LEGO Production by Country".
Does owning a bricklink store count? :-)
Either that, or Big Ben requires a LOT of maintenance!
Here's a circa 1960-63 UK glued retailer LEGO display model of just the tower, on a much larger scale...
Definitely the smaller tower has much nicer detailing... but then again back in the early 1960s there were only about 138 different LEGO parts available to build with.
i plan one day to display the 2 of them side by side,
(I would love to be wrong, as making it actually tell time is appealing to me as well.)
Agreed. The main way I've seen coaxial shafts done in past sets is with Technic turntables, the smallest of which is still much too large for this model!
Chances are the only way to make this model actually tell time would be to integrate actual watch faces (LEGO branded or not is your choice).
Might be able to do something crazy like decouple the shafts for one or two of the faces and have one face show hours while the other shows minutes. You'd just have to know which hands and faces to look at to coalesce the time.
A notable drawback with this hack is that the faces would disagree which might look too goofy.
In these schemes I'd leave both hands on each face, you'd just ignore the minute hand for example.
Option #3 would be to fabricate some shaft and hand components smaller than existing Lego parts to actually allow coaxial shafts. But then of course it's not pure Lego...
scrap that. that looks amazing.
GIVE ~ME!
Seems likely it'll be tied to BB.
Maybe we'll see a Creator 'full size' version of this further down the road?
i think with it having stickers it will be in a box.