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(...) Maybe they've picked them up through Pick-A-Brick or tent sales? The one store listing massive quantities of the Gryffindor shield is in Denmark, and they might have liquidated their leftover stock of light-grey when they switched over to (...) (21 years ago, 23-May-04, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) crying souund Ahui hears from the AFOLs crying souund Ahui hears from the AFOLs crying souund Ahui hears from the AFOLs crying souund Ahui hears from the AFOLs We live in a capalistic world and if the market is willing to pay such a price for (...) (21 years ago, 23-May-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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AFAIK, this seller, NinjaPrincess, is a woman who deals with bulk bought Lego which she sorts and resells. I vaguely recall her having bought some 20,000 copies of Final Duel IIs for $1 each for resale from some clearance/wholesale group. (...) (21 years ago, 23-May-04, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I just went to Yahoo to see what was going on with that link and perhaps getting it reinstated. However, it seems that Yahoo no longer has free webpages for members. I did toss out the idea late last year for another run at the comp, but there (...) (21 years ago, 22-May-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.contests, FTX)
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(...) Dunno about any of the others, but my entry was (URL) this>. Still together, too (mostly). T'was a fun little compo. I'd agree that nearly any part can be used in a creative and original way that has never even been thought of before... (...) (21 years ago, 22-May-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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(...) Ah, you must mean the (URL) Lame Parts> contest. (...) Don't forget the Throwbot discs... (...) Yeah, Allister did set up a webpage for the winners at one point, but the link he posted is dead. (...) It still pops up from time to time. (...) (...) (21 years ago, 22-May-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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(...) I'm not sure it's the one you're talking about, but I've seen your mini-Vader walker (I'd love to see instructions for that, BTW), and I've also built one MOC that uses it (DTotS was just a one-time modification of a pre-existing MOC): (URL) I (...) (21 years ago, 22-May-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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Speaking from experience bulk buying of LEGO can be quite economical in that shipping becomes next to nothing, lots of suppliers will discount huge orders, so having 100s or even 1000s of units of LEGO sets is not unrealistic or that strange. We (...) (21 years ago, 22-May-04, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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(...) I remember the Stupid Parts building contest a while back. Some of the entries were quite good even though they used such things as the manta ray and the pirate dingy (parts that are commonly thought of as one use only). I Googled it to see if (...) (21 years ago, 22-May-04, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Orion Pobursky wrote: <snip> (...) Orion, Have it with Darth Vader's helmet. Its a tough one. I've only seen it in one non-LEGO design. Kevin (...) (21 years ago, 22-May-04, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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