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(...) Was that the Lego consumer catalog or a dealer catalog ? Some current product lines are not shown in the sping catalog. Most of the Ninja sets were (c) 1998 or 1999, which makes sense in the two year product cycle. Its time has come. I just (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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Today I went to pick up a pack of Dacta technic joiners (at a shop in Akihabara, the electronics district, which specializes in robotics of all things) and saw the 2001 Lego Japan catalog. Zero Ninja sets. None, nada, nai. CHIKUSO!!!!! (18+ (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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snipped for brevity... (...) 8 Kabaya Ninja sets? I only know of four. Chris Barker chris@superfami.com (23 years ago, 3-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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(...) I orderd mine from the Lego S@H phone# on a few occasions...Initially, these sets were backordered, but that doesn't seem to be a problem anymore... ***I will caution you to order between 9am+5pm. Otherwise, you may get the less knowledgable (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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(...) I don't know if this is the store they are referring to, but between Disneyland and disney;s california adventure there is ashopping center called downtown disney. There is a sizable Lego store located at the west end. They have all of the (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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(...) AHHHH! I hate cryptic initials! :-) LIC store? Where in Anaheim? Bruce just up in Chino Hills, CA (23 years ago, 3-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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(...) <set:3345> and <set:3346> do not show up on the LegoShop website, are they still available over the phone? James (who hopes he hasn't missed out because L.D. can't keep to a timetable.) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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You can purchase sets #3344 and #3345 from S@H. They have actually been available from S@H for some time now. However, I've never seen them shown in the catalogues. -L (23 years ago, 3-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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(...) I got mine at the new LIC store in Anaheim, CA. They still have a lot available if anyone's intrested in working something out. Sorry if I'm not supposed to ask anything like that in this group. Christopher Pisciotti Loch Forest, CA (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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Hi all, I've been reading you guys posts about the ninja heroes sets. Are they available in the US. I got the green ninja set from S@H but I haven't seen the other two anywhere. Are they finally available from S@H? Thanks Steve (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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(...) The most entertaining book I read about US subs in the Pacific was the venerable 'Pig Boats,' a popular-issue book that was as of 1992 still available in paperback. As for academic books, Morison like most was still enamoured with the (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.pirates)
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In lugnet.castle, John Robert Blaze Kanehl writes: Here is my review of the Ninja Heroes when I received them a few months ago (for those of you who are interested in my opinion or if you don't have these yet) (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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(...) I like the minifig pack and the miniheroes, but more than anything, I wish Lego would release a Ninja accessory pack with swords, helmets, etc so I may continue my tradition of "Samur-izing" every minifig and his brother... I felt the same way (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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(...) Cool, isn't it? (Thanks again to Chris for asking and Todd for delivering) (...) I had to sell off some assets awhile back, but my Samurai, Ronin, Ninja armies still number 1000+. (...) Ninja sets disappeared from retailers around me a year (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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(...) "Blind Man's Bluff" is a great book about the history of submarine warfare. (...) Japanese pirates during the period that the Ninja sets apply often picked up Koreans from ports they raided as part of the crew. Chris (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) I'm still working 300 years before that! (...) Before Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea, there was really no Japanese "navy" so ship building tended to be on a fairly small scale, except for troop transports which were very boxy. (...) extremely (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Glad to see I'm not the only one building Ninja armies. =) My latest storyline involves the ninja clans attacking the regular castle folk, so I've been bulking up on the ninja figs - mwhahahaha! Last night's count shows 492 which includes 219 (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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(...) Hmmmm, I haven't counted it, and I still have a bunch in unopened boxes. 30 cavalry, I know. Somewhere around 150-180 foot including MIB shirkers, maybe a third of that Ninja that I'm slowly acquiring helmets so they can be converted to (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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(...) I have a total ninja/samurai army of about 80. I can probably muster 20-25 mounted units. Christopher Pisciotti Loch Forest, CA (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja)
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(...) Was the train in the water? Can you recommend any good books about submarines the Pacific theater? I've read the Pacific volumes of Samuel Eliot Morison's History of US Naval Operations, but I don't remember there being too much in there about (...) (23 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.pirates)
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