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Re: Poor packaging by TLC (was: Has any one else noticed...)
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lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego
Date: 
Fri, 4 Feb 2000 14:20:06 GMT
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Jeff Stembel wrote:
> 
> In lugnet.dear-lego, Christopher Tracey writes:
> > John Robert Blaze Kanehl wrote:
> > 
> > > ...an environmentalist's nightmare.....
> > 
> > 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 that was packaged alone in
> > its own box.
> > 
> > -chris
> > 
> > ps.  The glue that held the boxes into the frame was nightmarish also.
> > I almost had to use a crowbar to pry them out ;)
> 
> Was this the K-Mart exclusive?  The one with the 32x32 light green baseplate
> like 5978's?  I didn't have any trouble getting the boxes out of the two copies
> I got...  :)

No, I got my first copy at Zany Brainy. I think I've seen it at
Wal-Mart, and perhaps TRU also.

--
Frank Filz

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  Re: Poor packaging by TLC (was: Has any one else noticed...)
 
(...) Was this the K-Mart exclusive? The one with the 32x32 light green baseplate like 5978's? I didn't have any trouble getting the boxes out of the two copies I got... :) Jeff (URL) (27 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)

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