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Re: Poor packaging by TLC (was: Has any one else noticed...)
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lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego
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Thu, 3 Feb 2000 14:53:51 GMT
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"John Robert Blaze Kanehl" <johnNYblaze44@webtv.net> wrote in message
news:FpCLvJ.K12@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.dear-lego, Tony Priestman writes:
> > On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, James Simpson (<Fp9xAJ.J47@lugnet.com>) wrote at
> > 23:01:31
> >
> > > For all of us who grew up
> > > on Lego, I'd wager that the wonderful boxes were an important part of • the whole
> > > experience.
> >
> > Too true.
> >
> > I really have to steel myself to open some of the old stuff that I've
> > got. But I bought it to build it, as well as enjoying the packaging :-)
> >
> > Last year, I found a MISB Airport Shuttle. I was going to sell it, but
> > it's such a beautiful box, I had to keep it.
> >
> > And the joy of holding a MISB 928 was something else :-)
> >
> > It isn't ISB any more, though :-)
> >
> > --
> > Tony Priestman
>
> I apoligize for the last post.....cat on keyboard.....
>
> The new packaging is a far cry from the "compartmentalized geek" boxes I
> loved as a kid.....To this day I still have the boxes to Universal • Building
> sets 745 (1976?) and 733 (1979?). They are beat up, but still great • storage
> and sorting mediums, w/ removable plastic trays and styrofoam • frames.....an
> environmentalist's nightmare.....
I think the styroofoam is OK as long as you don't throw it away! Who
could throw away *anything* Lego?!
I saw the mispelling, and liked the way it sounds so :-P
Drat that cat!
--
Have fun!
John
My Trade/Sale (and links) Page
http://www114.pair.com/ig88/lego
my weird Lego site:
http://www114.pair.com/ig88/
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