(10603 )433Sign up for newsletterin titles & descriptionWelcome to my eBay Shop. Please add me to your list of favourite sellers and come again. Thank you for your business.You must be 16 or over to participate in the Brickset Forum. Please read the announcements and rules before you join. A Comprehensive List of LEGO Certified Professional Sets? I've been reading through ebay today and have come across a couple of sets that are LEGO Certified Professional, but I can't find a listing for them here in Brickset. Is there a list of the sets like the LEGO Hilton Paris Opera Hotel or this Ricky the Rooster? @ /en-us/aboutus/lego-group/programs-and-visits/lego-certified-professionals@Huw Sounds like a new challenge... :) I'd write them a mail to ask them, if you don't know where to start, there's someone at Reddit who works for one. If you can find the thread just say so and i'll give it a search, run into it some time ago. @bobabricks They have some interesting things for sale.
Where did you find information on this Ricky The Rooster Set? Good luck on anyone trying to collect a complete list on non-TLG LEGO sets...Bright Bricks Milan Cathedral... not even sure if these were sets or just MOCs.... And then there are these miscellaneous sets....Autodesk set... frontAutodesk set back....Those jokes are for @SumoLego and @Pitfall69 only! ^ There is no ceiling on rooster and oil company jokes.Red Rooster, standing by... @sstoroe @sprinkleOtter @77ncaachamps I have the LDD file for Ricky. PM me your emails. @TheOriginalSimonB The words 'insert', 'oil' and 'dong' should never, repeat NEVER, be used in the same sentence. Edit: unless you're into that stuff, in which case, go for it! What two consenting adults get up to behind closed doors is their business. That's a whole 'nother thread: Lego for Romantic Reasons...But it would be worth exploring. Yeah, we all need a eBay seller name like that! I wonder if the Paris Hilton set comes with a signed copy of Paris Hilton's famous video?
Imagine explaining owning that to your other half because "it has to be part of your LEGO related collection"It looks like a small version first and a larger version will be coming shortly. This one is in the church store for 35 pounds still. Just by chance I was passing on the day they got them. Apparently there will be 3 versions, small (as above £35),in stock now. Large (£100 to £150) not released as yet, and a currently unknown set of something to do with the cathedral... The staff are very helpful and I have asked for them to reserve the large one. If anyone is interested I'll update when it's in stock. Does anyone know if Exeter Cathedral ever released its larger model, which was supposed to include some of the outbuildings?I would love to purchase currently available versions of the Exeter and Bury Cathedral builds (preferably not the very smallest version, which in the case of Exeter is already sold out anyway) without having to go through eBay--is anyone on Brickset able to help with this?
I'm aware shipping and handling charges add considerably to the retail total, but I'm not happy having to pay many times the original cost *before* shipping on a second-hand set of something which is meant to be a benefit fundraiser for the Cathedral. I have a good reputation here, on BrickLink and at eBay (my userID is the same for all three). @/QeIQgN not my listing but another Bright Bricks LCP model. This is a nice one, I picked up one when we had the chance to visit Ashford Castle in Ireland. I've got the Flying Scotsman they did at Swindon this year. Instructions weren't handed out, you had to build it at the show. ^ I picked mine up today from the shop. Also showing a small version for box sizes. Would anyone know the part number of the large wheels used, I've scoured Bricklink but can't identify them Just rediscovered the site about the ReefScape project done by Bright Bricks together with Tropical Marine Center--instructions for the sixteen individual sealife models are still available at http://reefscape.co.uk/downloads/.
Sign In or Register to comment.With the wood and plastic toys now behind him, Godtfred was free to focus all of the companys’ resources and energy on his real interest: the Lego System. The result, not surprisingly, was a dramatic expansion of the System over the next several years. In 1961 the Futura group began to develop a wheel scaled to the Lego system. It was perhaps Futura’s first important contribution to the Lego System. The wheels were simply round 2 × 2 or 4 × 4 bricks with a groove to accept a rubber tire. The wheel bearing, however, was important enough to justify a patent application. The wheel brick was a 2 × 4 brick with three hollow nylon sleeves that acted as bearings held loosly in place by a plate attached to the bottom. An axle could fit into the sleeve and stay connected by friction and the axle/sleeve assembly was then free to rotate. The new wheels allowed children to build moving constructions, such as cars, trucks and
The wheels also signified a new, larger model scale and a shift away from the HO scale town plan. Lego introduced the wheels in the 400 and 401 supplementary sets in 1962. These were followed the next year by several larger sets, such as the European 314 set and the Samsonite 602 Wheel toy. These were followed by the model sets and eventually the wheels, in many diffrerent forms, were offered in nearly all Lego sets. They have become one of the most ubiquitous Lego elements. By the late 1990’s Lego was producing more than 300 million tires a year, making them the largest tire manufacturer in the world.1 1. In terms of absolute numbers, of course. In 1962 Lego created a process development lab in Billund under the guidance of the Swiss engineer Hans Schiess. One of the first results, based on numerous experiments, was a switch to a new plastic for the bricks: acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS).2 2. Bayer AG (who spun off most of their plastics business as Lanxess in 2004) has long been Legos’ exclusive plastic supplier.
cellulose acetate in the form of Cellidor and, later, ABS in the form of Novodur. Today Lego elements are made of proprietary versions of Novodur ABS and Makrolon polycarbonate which are colored with Macrolex dyes. Polystyrene, a thermoplastic, was available in commercial quantities since the early 1930’s. It was cheap and easy to mold, but was brittle. To overcome this styrene acrylonitrile copolymers began to be available in the 1940’s. Although stronger than styrene, there were still significant limitations which led, after the war, to the introduction of a rubber (1,3-butadiene) as a third monomer and the development of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS). ABS was relatively inexpensive, easy to mold to very tight tolerances, and perhaps most importantly, was much more colorfast, stable and impact resistant than cellulose acetate. Lego began switching over production in 1963 and completely phased out cellulose acetate over the next several years.