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(...) Sorry but all the non-brick things are non-Lego at the same time, whether they are from TLC or not..:-) Selçuk (24 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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People, shoot me if I've missed something, but... In my hand I'm holding a deck of playing cards. I hear you all thinking "yeah... so??". Well... it's a pack of LEGO playing cards. Fright Knights theme. I just bought them a few hours ago. There was (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)
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(...) They sell them at LEGO outlets, stores, theme parks, etc. They also come in Adventurers form. (24 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)
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(...) What country? I've never seen them in the U.S. -- did you find them in the U.S.? (...) IIRC, they came out in 1997(?). . . but only a very limited release, AFAIK. IIRC, Ardjan Besse of Belgium once had some scans up on his webpage. (I bought (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, lugnet.games)
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(...) I've seen them in US - the Lego Imagination Center had a couple of Adventurer packs. -Shiri (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, lugnet.games)
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"Arjan Brugman" <abrugman@casema.net> wrote in message news:FqtHHJ.o3@lugnet.com... (...) "yeah... (...) bought (...) Lego (...) these (...) I saw the same ones when I visited the LEGO Outlet in Georgia. They were near the coffee mugs, key chains, (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)
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(...) Does anyone have a ready supply of these that they'd be willing to sell or trade for? Ideally I'd be after at least two of each, but anything would be funky! Thankies! Richard (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) These would have to be one of the most funkiest non-LEGO LEGO products around. I've been drooling over these (not literally as I don't have any, besides which , if I did then they would get soggy), since I first saw them on Ardjan Besse's site (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, lugnet.games)
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(...) Hmm... too bad I didn't pick any up while I was there... at a time I did collect different card decks, not to mention there seems to be a general interest in these. Bummer. -Shiri (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.games)
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(...) There's no such thing as a non-LEGO LEGO product -- by definition. --Todd (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Agreed - I was just having fun playing around with the words, maybe I should have used an emoticon :) I hope that I didn't obsfucate the meaning? Richard (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) If they're at the LICs and Outlet Stores, and they're not available through Shop@Home... ...wouldn't the outlet stores ship them? J (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.games)
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) Hmm, is there a term for a LEGO product which is intended to directly interact with the bricks? In this sense, the decks of cards are not whatzits, but the various cardboard and plastic playscapes are. Of (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I think TLC uses the terms "LEGO bricks" and/or "LEGO building elements"... --Todd (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) LEGO Building Elements would work well. To me, that might exclude the playscapes. LEGO bricks to me seems like it should only refer to the parts which are close relatives of the 2x4 brick, which is why I often use LEGO parts (of course this (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) The Outlet stores have had playing cards since they opened. KL (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, lugnet.games)
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(...) That's a reasonable line of thinking. I guess they might... but I'm not sure. Didn't Buffie mention they only sell *sets* that aren't available from S@H? -Shiri (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.games)
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(...) Wicked excellent! Those LEGO Outlet stores are too good to be true. (Is there anything about them that ISN'T totally awesome?) --Todd (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, lugnet.games, lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Um... let me think... hrmm... Discountinued sets, New yet-to-be released sets, lego 'non-building' items... they ship what S@H doesn't... No, there isn't! ;-) -Shiri (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, lugnet.games, lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) (Raises cannon, then lowers it. Stupid US cannons.) (...) You know, you could make money with your amazing psychic powers. (grin) (...) Curiosity question: is it a pack of normal boring playing cards with Fright Knights backs, or is there (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)
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(...) Yes, there is: there aren't any close enough for me to actually *visit*... best Lindsay (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, lugnet.games, lugnet.market.shopping)
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On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Frank Filz (<FqttpE.IKn@lugnet.com>) wrote at 03:29:38 (...) When I was at LLW, they had some nice backpacks for children. the tabs on the zips *looked* like they had the correct stud dimensions to be usable. What other clothing (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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Fred M. Sloniker <lazuli@fidalgo.net> schreef in berichtnieuws isfubs4a47q16c3f1fu5...4ax.com... (...) *ducks anyway, you never know* (...) LOL (...) Check out Ardjan Besse's homepage: (URL) got pics from this cardset. (Thanks to Todd for pointing (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> schreef in berichtnieuws FqtJ1s.8Gn@lugnet.com... (...) Nope, found them here in Holland. I really don't understand what they were doing in the shop I bought them from. It's just a normal warehouse and they never (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, lugnet.games)
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Selçuk Göre <sgore@superonline.com> schreef in berichtnieuws 38BE1A46.4CD1C3ED@su...ine.com... (...) Nope, Todd is right. Lego is a trademark, so everything made by Lego (be it bricks or playing cards or whatever) is Lego. Anything non-Lego is not (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yes, there is. I spend *waaaaaay* too much money there. I think I am close to, if not passed $2000 in total spending at the Virginia store since it opened. :) Jeff (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, lugnet.games, lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Cool. (...) I didn't notice the stud on the box. I was looking at the watchband parts. It's a shame they don't have rod interconnection, or stud interconnection. Wouldn't it be cool if each watch band link had a pair of studs? If there was (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) If anyone wants, I'm going to the VA outlet sat morning, I can pick up a pack of cards(provided they have them) and ship them for probably less the the outlet would charge. Let me know by 9pm tonight. -Chris (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, lugnet.games)
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(...) They do. I got the backpack for Christmas. 8^) It has three sections, plus a stretchy mesh net to hold a water bottle. I don't use mine to haul books around, but I do use it to carry small-to-medium sets and bags of LEGO parts around in case I (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) <snippage> (...) I have seen them in the U.S. :^) The LIC at the MOA had them from about when they came out until sometime last year IIRC. I always looked at them and thought "how goofy". The LIC now carries the Adventurers playing cards (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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Hah! Talk to me when you spend that much in a day - my CC would have just about melted in Jan if I had been running them through readers rather than calling in orders ;-) (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, lugnet.games, lugnet.market.shopping)
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Hi , I recently recieved some LEGO Adventurers theme cards(also printed in Belgium) via Ebay. Do you know if there are other themes available at the outlet stores? Thanks!! John (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) You could always watch ebay. I found a deck of the Fright Knight cards and a pencil eraser shaped like the king of the Royal Knights for $3.25 plus shipping. The previous owner had picked them up at the Lego Center at the Mall of America in (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.games)
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(...) I don't know if they were very limited, but I've seen them nowhere else yet. (...) Correction: I am dutch, but I live in Austria. The only thing Austria has to do with Belgium at the moment, is that the belgium Government is on of the most (...) (24 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, lugnet.games)
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On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Frank Filz (<38BFDFA0.52BF@mind...ring.com>) wrote at 15:52:00 (...) Pirate watch. That'll be from the top of the main mast :-) (24 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Susan Hoover (<8EEC6D243rumplestx...8.63.236>) wrote at 17:06:05 (...) I *want* one of those :-) (...) Yeah, I got the original (in the current watch system) multicoloured one, with the hands made of bricks, which is cool. But I (...) (24 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) mail, or would I have to drive somewhere? (And if so, anywhere in Western Washington?) (24 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)
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(...) I didn't think they were anything special. I ordered 5 packs of them a year or so ago from the shop in MOA. In fact, I didn't know they were FK until I got them, then I just left them in the bag they came in. (24 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)
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Fred M. Sloniker <lazuli@fidalgo.net> schreef in berichtnieuws mtd3csc5mhcop23cnta7...4ax.com... (...) I'm not sure... Sofar I've heard people talk about Lego outlet stores, but I have no idea what they are cause we don't have them here in Holland. (...) (24 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)
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(...) Lego outlet stores are great stores that are directly affiliated with TLC. Some of them (maybe all?) have very cool large scale models, as one would see in legoland, (1) and display cases that you don't see everyday. Often they have older, (...) (24 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, lugnet.market.shopping)
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Two guys walk into a bar. Jeff Johnston <sakura@mediaone.net> says: (...) I picked mine up from the outlet store here in Georgia that people were ordering Wolfpack Renegade sets from (which, by the way, they didn't have any left on the shelves a (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.games)
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(...) Yeah: The prices! :) They're discounted from S@H prices, but for sets currently on store shelves, they're still in the same realm as TRU and a little more expensive than a Wal-Mart or Target-like store. I was actually a little disappointed. (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, lugnet.games, lugnet.market.shopping)
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