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Re: Castle accessories arrived
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lugnet.castle
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Thu, 24 May 2001 18:27:05 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Frank Filz writes:
> Mr L F Braun wrote:
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> > In lugnet.castle, James Brown writes:
> > > In lugnet.castle, Frank Filz writes:
> > > > James Brown wrote:
> > > > > So whoever it is that did manage to score these, confess!
> > > > >
> > > > > I want to know who to be jealous of. ;)
> > > >
> > > > Who me? I only got 10 (I mostly went for Pirate service packs, though I
> > > > did get quite a handful of Castle service packs also [mostly 10 of each,
> > > > compared to the 20 each of the Pirate ones], plus a smattering of other
> > > > stuff). I didn't hog the shooting cannon though. I only got one of each
> > > > pack (of course I've got 50 or 70 or something like that Shooting Cannon
> > > > service packs which I got a couple years ago - I was only getting these
> > > > packs for completeness).
> > > >
> > > > There must not have been many of the 5138s.
> > >
> > > Nope, not many at all. If you've got 10, I'm fairly positive (though still
> > > guessing) that you've snagged about a quarter of the total supply.
> >
> > I think the total number available was around 50 for all of
> > Europe. I now have only a couple--but in retrospect I'm shocked
> > that I got any. But that's what happens when one has little else
> > to do for a week, and happens to land on a lucky week. (I suppose
> > that if one must have only one kind of luck in one's life, LEGO
> > luck is one of the better sorts to have!) I'm glad I got a few,
> > because that cool armour piece fell completely within my own personal
> > Dark Ages. Most of the available packs did, in fact.
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> > > (wishing he'd heard about this soon enough to get some himself, instead of
> > > having to corner the second-hand market)
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> One thing that I think is kind of neat here is that the lack of a 2nd
> hand market in most of these packs says that they actually mostly went
> to people who wanted them for themselves instead of to resell. I'm sure
> we will see some on eBay and whatnot, but for the most part, it looks
> like these went directly to the people who wanted them. I certainly
> don't have anything against reselling, but I do think it's nice when the
> people who want an item get it directly (or more directly). I can't
> imagine any Lugnetter is sitting on 5138s figuring they can get more if
> they hold onto them longer.
I guess you haven't been out to Brickbay today.
http://brickbay.com/store.asp?p=torquay
This person must have bought at least 50 of the castle sets and who knows
how many pirate...
BK>
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| (...) Try about 150. He loaded 258 Falcon shields, 258 Forestman caps, etc., all at once, a little over a week after the great service pack rush. And I see he's already moved about 100 of those shields at $2.50 per. Nice work if you can get it. (...) (24 years ago, 24-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) One thing that I think is kind of neat here is that the lack of a 2nd hand market in most of these packs says that they actually mostly went to people who wanted them for themselves instead of to resell. I'm sure we will see some on eBay and (...) (24 years ago, 24-May-01, to lugnet.castle)
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