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Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:21 am

Does anyone know history of vw bugs from LEGO? I have just found one on market and bought it so if anyone have any infos on that I would apriciate it!

Tue Sep 23, 2008 2:16 pm

Brand new, I have never seen them before it was posted on here a couple of months back. Not very round though... but I might buy one to add to the collection.

Tue Sep 23, 2008 3:20 pm

Which LEGO beetle? The new one:

or the old one:

Tue Sep 23, 2008 4:51 pm

notchback wrote:

Now that I have never seen before. Looks like they made buses too...

Tue Sep 23, 2008 6:13 pm

2002sportside wrote: notchback wrote:

Now that I have never seen before. Looks like they made buses too... And notchbacks

and Karmann Ghia's

Tue Sep 23, 2008 10:42 pm

Like the old one`s. I have found a black in not so good condition but complete!
Year of production maybe?

Wed Sep 24, 2008 4:24 am

According to Brickfetish.com:

"The initial series consisted of eight different trucks based on the British Bedford lorry. These were followed by the VW Bus in 1956 and the VW Beetle in 1958 and later by a number of European auto models such as Citroen, Ford, Jaguar, Mercedes and Opel.... In 1956 they released the Esso Station (1310/310) and in 1957 the VW Showroom (1307/307), Fire Station (1308/308) and, of course, a Church (1309/309).... By 1966 the Town Plan sets were discontinued and in 1970 the 1:87 vehicles, the last remaining Town Plan component, was discontinued."

Look at that VW showroom, that would be cool to have:

http://www.brickfetish.com/timeline/1955.html

Wed Sep 24, 2008 11:24 am

This including buses are also very cool! :D

THX 4 doing the search!

Wed Sep 24, 2008 1:15 pm

In addition to the "HO" scale VW's pictured, Lego also produced a large scale Beetle that was about 4" long. That one is very hard to find.

Wed Sep 24, 2008 1:47 pm

Here's a simple bus:

Now we're getting a little better:

Nice gray bug here:

Very detailed yellow bug:

BUT, check out this bus.