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Well, with Target and KMart having Lego sales, it was a good weekend to go shopping. The bad part is that I am laid up with bad bronchitis, and so I had to plan the fastest most efficient trip to visit these stores, where I coughed my way around (...) (22 years ago, 20-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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In lugnet.loc.au, Kerry Raymond writes: . If only those tubs (...) Maybe we will see the 3033 replacement....one day (URL) (22 years ago, 21-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Having acquired and built the new Harry Potter sets, here's a brief review of them. For each one, I give the prices I paid about a week ago through local retailers with the S@H price shown for comparison. The price per piece (based on S@H prices) is (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter)
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Kerry Raymond wrote in message ... (...) and (...) excited (...) I disagree, there are some *very* nice parts in this set. Light grey 2x2 roof peaks (previously extremely hard to get), tan 2x2 roof peaks (not available before AFAIK), green 2x2 roof (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter)
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(...) How many green corners? I saw only one in the picture. There used to be a cardinal Lego design rule that you get an even number of pieces like this, or matched sets like in car doors. It was that grey roof peak issue that triggered my (...) (22 years ago, 26-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter)
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(...) Our solution for all our extra Harry/Ron/Hermione heads/hairpieces is to pull and store them and replace them with other faces/hairpieces so we've been able to build up our Gryffindor house ranks creating Fred, George, Percy, Seamus, etc. I (...) (22 years ago, 27-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter)
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In lugnet.loc.au, Kerry Raymond writes: <snip> (...) Like the ghost in Snape's Classroom, and the flute in the Forbidden Corridor, it seems another case of basing the sets from the book (or perhaps an early draft of the script) rather than the (...) (22 years ago, 28-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I'm in complete agreement here. (...) Here I disagree. Dobby's master (Lucius Malfoy) is a great fig. That torso would be great in any Town setting. Blond hair is stil rare enough to be exciting. And the face is interesting. Almost the same (...) (22 years ago, 31-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter)
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In lugnet.loc.au, Bruce Hietbrink writes: snip (...) I thought that Sheelob was the only use for it too, I would believe that lego even had that in mind, that is at least, they might have if they werent preoccupied with Harry Potter (though one (...) (22 years ago, 1-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter)
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This set also has the 1x1 round plate in gold, definitely new and very cool! Dave (21 years ago, 2-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter)
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(...) Hey Robert, Here's my website. It is a work in progress, but eventually I want to do the whole book. (URL) I do my Shelob, I was planning on doing something like Elin Overnas did here: (URL) Andrew Cunningham also has a great design here: (URL) (21 years ago, 2-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter)
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(...) Does this set follow the standard practice of including an extra 1x1 round of each colour 1x1 used? (Or did they adjust their sorting machine for this instance?) Cheers Richie (21 years ago, 4-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.harrypotter)
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(...) Not only does it contain only one golden snitch, but the one it does contain comes carefully packaged in the "box" the capes come in (I was beginning to get upset when I opened my set and couldn't find the snitch anywhere-- I was going to call (...) (21 years ago, 5-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.harrypotter)
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(...) Are you sure about this? I saw one copy of this at the local Wal-Mart and scanned the barcode - it came up as $69.98 +------/|---...---+---...---+ | | | djlong@wildwizards.net \ | | / | \ | | ( ) (URL) \ ICQ# 8976662 | +----`--' (...) (21 years ago, 23-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter)
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(...) Kerry's prices are in $AUD for Australian stores, I gather that you are in the US. Deidre drb@tasmail.com (21 years ago, 26-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter)
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(...) ..ack! Brain fart.. Saw the ".edu" in the address and completely spaced the ".au" after it... +------/|---...---+---...---+ | | | djlong@wildwizards.net \ | | / | \ | | ( ) (URL) \ ICQ# 8976662 | +----`--' ---...---+---...---+ (21 years ago, 3-Dec-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.reviews, lugnet.harrypotter)
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