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(...) I was in the store a couple of nights ago looking at the toy isles. I actually had a hard time determining at first where LEGO sets stopped and Playmobil started. Look at set 6600, Highway Construction. Tell me that it doesn't start to look (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) speaking of... My sister got me that new big ~800 piece basic set for Christmas. It's the one with six or seven smaller boxes of lego held together by a cardboard frame. It seems like a waste of packaging to me, especially the raised baseplate (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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If you cut out the center divider, and just snap the handle clips back in, buckets are very useful EXCEPT that the lid doesn't snap in tight. If they tip over, you have a mess. It would be nice if the lids snapped in securely. But those orange (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) When I went out to Portland OR last summer to trade some windshields with Steve Barile (1), we joked about that (especially since we could also talk about the clarity of the parts). (1) the real reason for the trip was to go to a week long (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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I have a bunch of empty tubs (100 or so) that I would be glad to swap for some better form of storage, like the 6 or 9 compartment trays with handles. I do agree that the tubs are good, but I hate the buckets for storage. That handle makes it really (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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"John Robert Blaze Kanehl" <johnNYblaze44@webtv.net> wrote in message news:FpCLvJ.K12@lugnet.com... (...) the whole (...) Building (...) storage (...) frames.....an (...) I think the styroofoam is OK as long as you don't throw it away! Who could (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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Mmmmmmmm... Guinness... I actually like the chrome exhaust pipes! (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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TUBS, however, are pretty useful. (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) The new packaging is a far cry from my "compartmentalized geeK (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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