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| The 4 X-Pod sets (4346 to 4349) are now on sale in the UK The "pod" is a three part carry case and can be built with. The top and bottom resemble 10 stud diameter radar dishes, while the middle is three bricks high, clear, with studs on the bottom. (...) (21 years ago, 17-Jan-04, to lugnet.basic, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| I can already see a PERFECT use for the Pod's from these sets, Town, Train layouts, Carnival rides!!! the teacup, the overhead Tram, perfect thing to be controlled by Mindstorm RCX bricks... Are these going to be available in the US? Tamy (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jan-04, to lugnet.basic, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| (...) One can hope. As someone on brickish.org said, these are an excellent way to do portable bot builds too... I think this may be one of the more clever things they've done lately. I like the different ways the case pieces interoperate.... you (...) (21 years ago, 19-Jan-04, to lugnet.basic, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| "William Howard" <william@howard-fami...rld.co.uk> wrote in message news:HrnJxq.1I1C@lugnet.com... (...) Are they "on sale" or are they "for sale"? (21 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.basic)
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| (...) That's an interesting prepositional conundrum. Technically, in both UK and US English, it's "on sale" just to indicate that something is now available from a supplier that was not available at first. But "for sale" seems to be used as (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jan-04, to lugnet.basic, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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