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On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Paul Davidson (<FLp51o.13n@lugnet.com>) wrote at 09:59:03 (...) Yes, Richard, keep it. Keep all of it. Just don't make it *too* good :-) You've provided considerable inspiration to me, but how am I going to compete? (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.pirates)
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Er, wow... very cool stuff! Definitely keep it up! Your site is one of the ones that has inspired me to work on my own Lego site ... -- Paul Davidson, aka Tinman (URL) "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) I am not worthy! (...) Yes (...) Me - the only one I can speak for... (...) If it makes you happy, it can't be that bad. If it makes US happy, you do e-commerce (...) What's not for the net? The Net is the True Great Melting Pot. You can find (...) (26 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.pirates)
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The Eternal Champion does Lego! Very nice, bravo, hip-hip-hooray. Always pursue those creative demons. One never knows what rabbit hole they will lead you down, but it is the journey, and not the destination (not that a single seasick sailor will (...) (26 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) I suspect one reason this set hasn't stayed around is that it takes an awfull lot of shelf space for a $20 set, and it doesn't stack well. Stores probably didn't re-order after the first wave. I suggest watching the clearance stores (note that (...) (26 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) Richard, You are a master storyteller and builder. Please keep on. I love the your Pirate creations, and hope to see more, but I have enjiyed every page you've created. Remember, there is no try, just do... (26 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.pirates)
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Richard Parsons: (...) Really good. (...) Yes. (...) No. (...) I think you continue with this. And I can't see how this can be bad for kids (I must lack imagination ;-). Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: (...) (26 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.pirates)
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Not quite Adventurers, but a grand adventure nonetheless Not quite Pirates, but pirating gets done (URL) do you fellows think of this? Worth pursuing? Who gives a rat's? Waste of time? Go back to pirates? ((URL) scaring the kiddies? I was pretty (...) (26 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: 5909 found an available by phone was (Re: Set 5909 - reprise . . .)
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I found this (with the gold mummy case) at Tuesday Morning for $15 for anyone that's interested. Look fast because it will be gone quick. Bruce (...) about (...) some (...) set (...) itself, (...) responded. (...) cannot (...) (26 years ago, 22-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) Well I have been following this a bit and I wanted to check before I responded. I have found some of these in an excellent store in Massachusetts. You cannot order over the internet but they are happy to take phone orders. I have no idea what (...) (26 years ago, 21-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) little (...) Hello Jonathan If all else fail it is still available in Denmark as 2879, without the Mummy though. Also see: (URL) (26 years ago, 20-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) It wasn't a TRU exclusive, at least not in the USA. I bought one at Walmart, and two at Shopko (on sale for $10!). The set came with the previously mentioned mummy storage case, a very cool biplane, a black Scorpion Tracker-type car, a nice (...) (26 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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If you look at LugNet, there are at least three Treasure Raiders sets, the same content with different set numbers. One of them comes with a golden mumy storecase, the second is 'normal' and the third has 'non-U.S. version?' in its description. (...) (26 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) There's a couple on the shelves in Big W across the road. ' course I'm in Australia and that's probably not much use to you butI thought you might want to know anyway. James from Oz (26 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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First off, I just want to thank everybody who responded to my first post about set 5909 (the tan bi-plane). Everybody has been a lot of help! I've heard from a few people that this was a TRU exclusive, packaged with some sort of case, or something, (...) (26 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) Oh, yes. I held this one in my hands at the WAFOL meeting -- it's a beautiful model. *sniff* :-, Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.build)
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Jonathan Little <piano254@aol.com> wrote in message news:FLEHD7.Avp@lugnet.com... (...) to (...) little (...) from (...) even at (...) would (...) This set was originally released as a TRU exclusive (AFAIK) in 1998. I've been told by different LEGO (...) (26 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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I think it was a 1998-only set. Here in Canada (I don't know about the US) it comes with a mummy-shaped lego carrying-case. One store in town had two left yesterday when I looked. -- Paul Davidson, aka Tinman (URL) "If you strike me down, I shall (...) (26 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) little (...) This is a very hard set to find. I got mine from the Construction Site (www.constructiontoys.com) for $19.90 back in September. It was available in limited quanities back then so I dont know if any are still available. Rich (26 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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(...) little (...) In the UK, this set was a Toys R Us exclusive set, one of the only such sets I can recall, apart from a Divers floating lab... It retailed for around £13.99 ($20?), but I don't think they have many about now. Stu C. University of (...) (26 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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