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Re: Instore baseplates holder
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Wed, 5 Jan 2000 19:39:22 GMT
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Are you just talking about those blue baseplates?  They're everywhere here.

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Paul Davidson

Richard Parsons <rparsons@hinet.net.au> wrote in message
news:FnsHyt.GvM@lugnet.com...
Baseplates came up in another thread and it reminded me of a recent • (small)
discovery.

Here in Oz, baseplates (32x32) are normally shelved in a yellow plastic
multi tray unit.  Its got four or five horizontal shelves (kind of like
stacked in trays) which can accommodate, I don't now, a dozen twin • baseplate
packs each.

Being always in need of more sea plates (what it is to be a piratey, eh?
:-), I tend to skim a finger down the stack whenever I pass one of these
units.  Being a bit annoyed about not finding any for a few weeks, I had a
more detailed root around.

This unit has a vertical bay running down the back of the unit.

Obviously its about making sure the unit doesn't get pushed too far back • on
a standard retail shelf.
Lo and behold, two very dusty sea baseplate packs.

I have no idea whether these units are used elsewhere on the planet,
although I doubt TLCs Australian volumes would have supported moulds for
what looks like a pretty custom unit.  You may already have known this. I
didn't and it seemed worth mentioning.

Regards

Richard
Still baldly going...
Check out Port Block at http://www.hinet.net.au/~guinan/



   
         
   
Subject: 
Re: Instore baseplates holder
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Date: 
Fri, 7 Jan 2000 08:26:58 GMT
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Paul Davidson wrote in message ...
Are you just talking about those blue baseplates?

Yup. Just those blue baseplates. Lego System, single, standard size (32x32),
standard blue, two dimensional, "Sea Baseplate", Set Number 627, Ages 3-12,
made by Lego System A/S DK-7190 Billund, Denmark, Copyright 1996.

They're everywhere here.

Mmmm, no doubt.  Unfortunately, they simply aren't as everywhere here as
would suit _this_ little black kitten.

(Not that I'm particularly little-black-kitten-ish.  I'm more
big-old-beige-&-brown-faithful-St-Bernard-dog-ish.  Its just that Sylvester
came to mind for some reason, and I happen to be feeling way too relaxed to
bother kicking him out.  This nice bottle of South Eastern Australian Pinot
Noir Chardonnay Brut - very clever :-)

And I appreciated your post in .general ;-)

Regards

Richard
Still baldly going...
Check out Port Block at http://www.hinet.net.au/~guinan/

 

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