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Has anyone found a suitable replacement for the 4mm flex hose found in a few Classic Space sets? I'm trying to rebuild some of them and the real hose isn't cheap to come by - I thought perhaps I could find a few feet of a comparable product and cut my own.

That's a great start, thanks :)

I would love to see a timeline of the different slotted brick variations out there. I think I know the relative chronology, but I'm fuzzy on the dates. Were GEAS/Prima being made at the same time as no-logo bricks in Denmark? When did bricks start coming out of Norway? Were there any other locations making slotted bricks? Maybe someone could help me fill in the blanks :) GEAS (Sweden) Prima (Sweden) No Logo (Denmark) Short G Short G Fat Long G Hatched (Norway) Long G Edged Number Dogbone

Here are some unprinted animals and a couple of old test bricks with short-shot tubes.

A few from my collection :)

Patience is key. I've been buying Classic Space and Futron parts from BL for many months, slowly piecing together a collection that will let me build any set ever released. It's a long, slow process, but it will be worth it in the end :) I've been using BrickStock to manage my lists. It started out as one big wanted list, then as I got parts in, I moved them to another list which gets uploaded to Rebrickable so I know which sets I can build. I still need 284/5301 parts, which puts me at about 95% complete.

I have sold nearly everything I bought in the last 15 years, but I have all my childhood sets, which consist of lots of Futuron, Blacktron, Space Police, Pirates, Forestmen, and Wolfpack.

If the price is right I have no problems buying used sets. Yes it's a gamble, but that comes with the territory. I love buying Classic Space stuff on eBay that nobody wants to bid on because the seller lists it with small, blurry pictures taht don't show anything. Sometimes I get useless crap, but sometimes I get pristine, like-new sets. But most of the time I get lightly used sets that I can pick through and use to fill in. If I need to buy a couple replacement parts, no big deal. Of course I mostly just buy used parts and build sets that way. It lets me pay attention to parts I already have and not buy them again. No sense in getting 10 more of a common piece if I already have 100 of them. And no sense in getting 10 of a rare piece that only came in 10 sets if each set needs just 1. I buy the 1, and accept the fact that I can't build all 10 sets at the same time :)

It's Polly, a German brand from the 70s. It was marketed in the US as Polly Hobby. Strangely, only the windows and doors have the cross-shaped studs. The bricks and plates have round studs. Even stranger, this brand is designed to be built studs-down :)

Sounds ideal, but they're very thin and light, they wouldn't hold any weight. I would have to cut them open and build an internal frame for each one.

I just wish my wife liked them as much as I do ;)

I got all four for $80 :)

Oops double post

I've seen photos of some with the old stud logo, so I knew they've been around for a while. Yep. I can't build much with just 4 bricks though :)

Thanks. I've seen the Bricklink entry but it doesn't say too much about them. I'm keeping them for sure, I've been wanting one for a while and I got a very good deal on this set of four :)

Does anyone have info on these? When they were produced, where they were used? I assume they were provided to retailers as decoration, but I'm not certain. Thanks!

Here's a prototype DUPLO hippo that I recently had the good fortune to add to my collection.

I've seen those photos. Really wonderful bricks. I'm surprised they may have been actual production parts!

If you can print Classic Space torsos with authentic-looking gold moons, I'll throw some money your way :)

What colors can you print in? Any metallic options?

That's true of regular Tente, but not their big "Elephant" line of bricks. I only have two colors in 2x4 so far - want more!

I never knew about Tente until recently (I've been collecting 2x4 clone bricks for a few months now). I ordered my first Tente Astro set a few weeks ago (0650 Desintegrador de Rayos Laser), it's on its way from Portugal now. I'm excited! I have a massive Classic Space collection, and if I like the Tente set as much as I think I will like it, I might start collecting that too :)

There are four LEGO bricks in the photo. Top row: 1. Not LEGO. This is a very early clone brick from the late 50s. Not much is known about it, so many call it "X-Clone". It is made from hard, brittle plastic which doesn't warp like the Celluloce Acetate Lego bricks from the era. The studs have small nipples in the center, and fast injection cycles often leads to studs caving in, though this particular brick is very much intact. 2. Not LEGO. This brand was marketed as Puwi in Denmark, as Diplom in Switzerland, and as Lino in the US. They are from the late 60s into the 70s, but they mimic 1950s Mursten style Lego. 3. Not LEGO. This is a brand called Pebe that was manufactured in East Germany from the late 50s into the 80s. The bricks evolved quite a lot over time, and used several different clitch mechanisms over the span of the system. 4. LEGO. This is an early 1950s Automatic Binding Brick from Denmark, one of the first Lego bricks to ever be manufactured. They were made from Celluloce Acetate plastic which tended to warp over time. 5. LEGO. This is a test brick manufactured by the Bayer corp in Germany. Date unknown - maybe early 60s?. It is part of a series of four bricks that were presumably made to test clutch strength while TLG was moving to new plastic (ABS). Bricks are labeled A, B, C, or D. A bricks barely stay together, while D bricks grab each other and don't want to let go. Modern bricks match the C bricks in clutch strength. These ABCD bricks come in sets in a HUGE variety of different colors. Bottom row: 1. Not LEGO. This is a TYCO Super Block, a high-quality LEGO clone manufactured in the US from 1983 to about 1991. 2. Not LEGO. This is a Mega Blok. 3. LEGO. Another Bayer test brick. Not much is known about this series, which features the letter G on 7 studs, and a number on the 8th. They come in white, light blue, and 4. Not LEGO. This is a Tente brick, a Spanish brand that started making sets in the late 60s. Some of their early space sets were amazing! These bricks are not Lego compatible because of the large studs. The plastic is very hard and edges are sharp - playing with them often leads to cut fingers. 5. LEGO. This is a Prima "Target" slotted brick made from 1953-1955 in Sweden as a licensed production of Lego. It is made of hard, glassy polyester. Prima bricks are contemporaneious with the Lego Mursten line in Denmark.

Now we test your skill. How many LEGO bricks are there in this picture?

I'm going to start putting pictures of pretty ladies in all my BL orders now :)