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Re: yellow parrots
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Wed, 20 Sep 2000 08:43:28 GMT
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On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:18:51 GMT, "Heather Patey" <hpatey@nfld.com>
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> In lugnet.pirates, Bruce Lowell writes:
> > yeha, i have that set that has 2 of them, and i want 2 more so each corner
> > will have a parrot. thanks for the advice. adios,
> > 8^) Brucey-Wan
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> And hereby hangs a tale!
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> I was curious about what set this was, so I dug around in the inventories on
> Chris Rasmussen's excellent Adventurers site and found it was <set:5919>.
> "U.S.-only Toys 'R' Us release", says the LUGnet guide. Phoo. (I'm in
> Canada.)
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> Well, I was prowling in my TRU today, and while picking out the few remaining
> Egypt sets to price-scan, I happened upon a pair of 3722's with which I wasn't
> familiar. The big gold case almost made me put it back, but there they were:
> the yellow parrots! (Same set, different number.) I paid MSRP for them, but
> hey. I'll be keeping the parrots, but wanted to let Canadians know that
> "US-only" ain't necessarily so.
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> Anybody want a pair of gold suitcases?
> Cheers, Heather
Well 5919 WAS US only the 3722's were not :^)
I seem to remember them being mentioned being available elsewhere
also, but that's a faint memory and at this hour my mind is suspect
:^)
Mike
--
All other themes are just spare parts for Castle!
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| (...) wasn't (...) The set in question came in three version: 5919 International 5919 North American (US+Canada) 3722 TRU 50th Anniversary On (URL) are pictures of two of these versions. Christian (24 years ago, 20-Sep-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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