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Re: yellow parrots
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Wed, 20 Sep 2000 18:08:56 GMT
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In lugnet.adventurers, Mike Timm writes:
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:18:51 GMT, "Heather Patey" <hpatey@nfld.com>
> wrote:
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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.)
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Anybody want a pair of gold suitcases?
> > Cheers, Heather
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> 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
The set in question came in three version:
5919 International
5919 North American (US+Canada)
3722 TRU 50th Anniversary
On http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Cottage/5900/5919.html
there are pictures of two of these versions.
Christian
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| (...) It's so confusing when TLC does this kind of thing! Had another look at the LUGnet guide, and it does say that 3722, not 5919, is the US-only set. Mine didn't have TRU 50th Anniversary stickers on them, but stickers that said "Includes Gold (...) (24 years ago, 20-Sep-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| (...) 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 (24 years ago, 20-Sep-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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