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1. 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…

2. Re: UCS falcon rumours (that turned out to be true!)

   

   

   Comment by Istokg · April 2017 · Home› Collecting

   It's really a matter of supply and demand... even for modern sets there's a larger demand for the already large supply of modern sets. Some of this is due to investors being part of the collector mix. It took me 8 years to finally find someone who had a 1957 Norwegian Esso Garage set 1309 (you won't find it in any database…

3. Re: 21026-1... Is that a Lego church?

   

   

   Comment by davee123 · November 2015 · Home› Everything else LEGO

   They don't do too many religious things apart from Christmas and Easter promo sets, usually. There was an old church in the Town Plan sets from Ye Olde Days: #1309: Back in the 50s, LEGO staff also took an active role in the community churches. They gave away these at various events (plastic-molded, but not LEGO System…

4. Re: any idea what the 2015 winter village set is?

   

   Comment by TigerMoth · August 2015 · Home› Collecting

   Whoa! "Never" is a big word. They did make a church, or two. Sets 309 and 1309 are churches, albeit essentially the same one.

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

   

   

   Comment by Istokg · May 2015 · Home› Collecting

   That LEGO building on the left... the Esso Garage of 1956-57... it is set #1309... and so far the only one known in the world.... not even the Billund Vault has one. I had doubted the existence of this #1309 set as a catalog error, because the number #1309 was reused in Denmark, Norway and Sweden in 1957 as a Church set.…

6. Re: 1,600 on Brickset want list. Anyone else done this?

   

   

   Comment by Istokg · January 2015 · Home› Collecting

   Some other things that TLG didn't know they made.... A wooden box Automatic Binding Bricks set.... One that I'm still looking for from Norway.... a 1237 Garage Side Building... 1309 Esso Garage Set.... And my favorite.... the 6661 Mobile TV Studio..... WDR German TV version.... it slipped under everyone at TLG's radar....

7. Re: Early LEGO Catalogs...

   

   

   Comment by Istokg · December 2014 · Home› Everything else LEGO

   Here is my all time favorite catalog design... the 1956 Swedish Catalog. This same design was used for Denmark, Sweden and Norway. I love the artwork of this large 2 sided catalog... The most intriguing item on this catalog is the 1237 Esso 1/2 Garage Set seen in the upper right. No examples of this 1237 box have ever been…

8. Re: LEGO Set Box Variations for EU/UK-AUS/USA/CAN, and why some are worth more than others...

   

   

   Comment by Istokg · December 2014 · Home› Collecting

   Going way off on a tangent... all the way back to 1956-57 Scandinavia.... Here is a 1956 Swedish Esso Service Station Set... this box predates the introduction of LEGO model sets with the model images on the box tops, which was introduced in 1957. This 1310 Swedish Esso Station set has a regular LEGO basic set box top of…

9. LEGO Church Set

   

   

   Discussion by Istokg · November 2014 · Home› Everything else LEGO

   On the Brickset front page there is an article about my Unofficial LEGO Sets/Parts Collectors Guide... and someone there asked about a LEGO Church model. Actually TLG once did make a church set... from 1957-62. This set was introduced in 1957 as set 1309, and sold in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. In 1958 the set was…

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10. Beautiful LEGO Model Sets of the Town Plan Era

    

    Discussion by Istokg · September 2014 · Home› Collecting

    Many of today's LEGO collectors look at the sets of today as the "Golden Age" for LEGO... others look at the sets of the 1980s to mid 1990's. But long before most of you were alive... LEGO designed some really nice sets back in the late 1950s to mid 1960s that were very labor intensive to hand pack, and had specialty parts…

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