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1. LEGO Sets that are unbelievably complex....

   

   Discussion by Istokg · August 2014 · Home› Collecting

   Anyone who has ever seen old LEGO catalogs has probably wondered... "gee how simple collecting early LEGO must be"... well nothing could be further from the truth... LEGO sets from the 1955-72 era (especially 1955-65) are extremely complex.... and I often call that era the "LEGO Mayhem" era, due to the extremely hard to…

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2. Re: LEGO First, Last and Most Unusual....

   

   

   Comment by Istokg · April 2015 · Home› Collecting

   OK... now for another step back in time to 1955... the introduction of the Town Plan System.... the beginning of LEGO Town.... The oldest LEGO instructions ever, belong to the first Town sets introduced in 1955. This involved 4 tiny sets (1210 small store, and 1211, 1212 and 1213 small house sets) and the 1236 Garage Set.…

3. Re: The most valuable assembly of LEGO parts ever!!

   

   

   Comment by Istokg · May 2015 · Home› Collecting

   The #1235 (just the garage unique parts) and #1236 (entire garage elements) boxes from 1955-57 of Denmark, Norway and Sweden are different than those boxes of these sets in other European sets. A red roadplate in mint can easily top GBP 100. Ditto for the very rare AUTO brick (usually they have a GARAGE brick).... The…

4. Re: Production runs of Modern Lego sets versus older Lego sets.

   

   

   Comment by Istokg · April 2015 · Home› Everything else LEGO

   First of all the longest run for any LEGO model set was 15 years.... for the 1955-70 #236 Garage Set (#1236 in Denmark, Norway Sweden 1955-57).... which underwent 8 box types and probably as many design changes.... This is arguably the most complex LEGO set, in terms of box content variations, box designs, and where the…

5. PPP and PPW

   

   Discussion by Vindic8ed · March 17 · Home› Buying & Selling Topics

   While reading the comments in the Land Rover announcement, alternative measurements for value was talked about (as it has been in the past). I didn't look to see if anyone has done calculations for PPW and posted them here, but I decided to do some quick ones. I liked the idea of using the average weight/price per piece as…

6. Re: Discovering Unknown LEGO Sets...

   

   Comment by Istokg · July 2014 · Home› Collecting

   Another set that I had always wondered about was a 1237 set, as seen in Swedish and Norwegian 1956-57 LEGO catalogs. This was listed as a "Garage side set"... that was something like a 1/2 Esso Service Station... but the 1/2 that was not the garage. I thought that this again was just a catalog error (common back then). But…

7. Re: The LEGO Encyclopedia Series....

   

   

   Comment by Istokg · September 2017 · Home› Everything else LEGO

   Heh heh... got a few people who just ordered the (cheaper) online (computer desktop) edition of my Unofficial LEGO Sets/Parts Collectors Guide this weekend. So I'm giving it another week for stragglers! ;-) Also, I will be including the last 3 missing LEGO sets (so far 1 known example of each, with either a Swedish or…

8. Re: Found a bag of old LEGO. Is it worth anything?

   

   Comment by Istokg · May 2016 · Home› Collecting

   @LusiferSam It seems that the Geas Konstharts company in southern Sweden used the same box for the 700/1, 700/2 and 700/3 sets. What we see is the 700/3 set with the 60 (2x2) and 60 (2x4) bricks. With the 700/2 set 72 (2x2) and 72 (2x4) bricks... they put the extra bricks in the empty partition (which otherwise should have…

9. Re: Beautiful LEGO Model Sets of the Town Plan Era

   

   Comment by Istokg · September 2014 · Home› Collecting

   Here are the different model LEGO sets that could be bought at your LEGO retailer from 1957-59.... the hand drawn artwork on these boxes is beautiful. The sets are (upper row left to right).... 306/1306 VW Service, 307/1307 VW Showroom, 308/1308 Fire Station, 309/1309 Church Set, 310/1310 Esso Service Station, and 236/1236…

10. Re: Gary Istok in Hospital...

    

    Comment by Istokg · March 2012 · Home› Everything else LEGO

    Hi folks, I'm back... had another scare and had to go to the emergency room and get hospitalized again... but it was a reaction to some medicine I was taking... I owe some of you some Bricklink stuff for a while (and some EMAIL replies). Just overwhelmed... but one thing about my Bricklink shipping... the longer you have…

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