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In lugnet.loc.za, Lindsay Frederick Braun wrote:
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> Hi!
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> I'm here, in Pretoria, and wondering if there are any
> LUGNETters in this lovely land. That is all.
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> best
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> LFB Hi Lindsay are you still there ? I am in KZN Please e-mail me Glad to meet a South African lego fan
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hello! is anyone in this newsgroup?
I will be living in Maputo for one year or two. As you can imagine, here
in Mocambique there are no lego resources.
From the few messages sent to this newsgroup, i saw that the situation
in South Africa is not much better...
I have been in Nelspruit and saw one shop with legos. I don't remeber
about the prices because i was not familiar with the rand
at that time. How is it? What are the best places to buy legos in South
Africa?
Daniel Carvalho
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In lugnet.general, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> In lugnet.general, Hans Bregman writes:
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> If you know what you need, I may be able to factor it in from
> the US (being a 'Murican and all) and save you the cost of
> exchanging monies; but that would require I find someone
> willing to post parts to me here at the Cape. (Hint hint:
> any volunteers?)
Hiya Lindsay,
I'll raise my hand here. Let me know what you had in mind or need, and we can
definitely figure out the logistics.
-Shaun
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In lugnet.general, Hans Bregman writes:
> Are there any South Africans interested in Lego. Please help as I need to
> order parts in this country, but can't find suppliers of spares.
Mynheer Bregman:
I currently live in Cape Town, but I'm not sure how much help
I would be because I'm not visiting back to the US until at
least May or June. And yes, getting supplies of spares to
ZA is not easy--the Australians may complain rightfully,
but the situation here is far worse.
If you know what you need, I may be able to factor it in from
the US (being a 'Murican and all) and save you the cost of
exchanging monies; but that would require I find someone
willing to post parts to me here at the Cape. (Hint hint:
any volunteers?)
Unfortunately, although I have a truly crazy amount of LEGO,
none of it is here with me (except for two dark grey 2x4 bricks).
Pop me an email (not at the above address; rather, at lfbraun (at)
mweb.co.za) and we can figure out what to do. And post in
.loc.za, because it's lonely there!
best
LFB
(followups to .loc.za)
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[nb: I've set FU->.market.shopping, but set it as you will
based upon your point of order.]
Hi, everyone. It's time for your South African Shopper's Report!
Today I visited several venues in Cape Town. There are no major
toy chains here as they're known in NA/Europe/Asia/Australia; the
LEGO density is really, really low. This has several reasons, but
the major one is that LEGO products command about the same price
in an *absolute* sense ($1 = R9.25) as they do in the US.
This means that what one does find in South Africa is the cheap-o
knockoff. I've seen both "Shifty" and "Brick" brands here, but
only small sets going for R20 to R50. For more on those two
knockoff brankds, check out .clone-brands archive; but in short
the quality is pretty awful and the designs--and often even box
graphics--are totally and shamelessly stolen from LEGO. Compared
with what others have seen overseas in these two brands, the set
assortment has not changed in the last two years.
At the store called "Game," which is the closest South Africa
seems to have to a Wal-Mart, I did find actual, honest-to-goodness
LEGO. The LEGO was, however, restricted to Bionicle (Bohrok and
Toa Nuva[!]) and a lone Jack Stone set; all were priced at about
US retail (the Jack Stone set, the helicopter carrier, was at $17).
There were also two other brands that came in quantity: "OK - IQ
200" brand, which came in primary colors and seemed to have a
quality roughly like early MegaBloks; only one brick had leaked
out of a tub so I couldn't gauge brick adhesion. It came in
translucent plastic buckets of original design, and there was
also a "Junior" division that was not unlike Duplo in size but
had solid studs and sharper corners. The other brand was "Slic
Bric," which came in small boxes of 200 bricks each; I couldn't
find any open boxes so I don't know anything about its qualities.
So the LEGO holdings are meager at best here. I saw a couple of
ads in the classifieds for Technic sets being sold, as well as a
6950. But the asking prices were very high, even for used sets.
So as I'd expected, this is a disappointing LEGO market. But I
did seen a Bionicle ad on e-TV (channel 4), however, so the SAf
market is not quite ignored by the LEGO marketing juggernaut.
ObWeer: it's summer! Now I see what the Australians are so darn
happy about in the middle of December. Also, why the Cape is so
full of Germans, Britons, and Dutch. I hope the bulk of LUGNET
are enjoying their winter. (Of course, I'd gladly take the
winter if it meant staying inside building with my LEGO.)
best
LFB
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