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Re: UK brick box prices.
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lugnet.dear-lego
Date: 
Tue, 29 Sep 1998 06:36:11 GMT
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On Tue, 29 Sep 1998 06:21:28 GMT, "Tom Stangl, VFAQman"
<talonts@vfaq.com> wrote:

And while you're at it, can you send all those neat UK-only promos over to
the US?  You're spoiling UKers and torturing us.

The Shell sets are killers, yet they are marching all over the world EXCEPT
the US, it seems.  I refuse to buy gas from Shell until they do bring Lego
(and I mean the SAME sets the other countries are getting, not some dumbed
down McDonalds crud) here to the US.

I wonder if this is a case of the grass is greener on the other
side...

If we could get the promo sets easily here, would we think they were
just as desirable?

OR would familiarity breed contempt?

Sarah
sarah@eskimo.com



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  Re: UK brick box prices.
 
(...) Definitely not - at least not for me. Check out 2872 sometime. I forget what I traded for 10 of these - I think it was like $20 or so worth of Ninja sets. So basically for 2 bucks each I got a witch, a crystal ball, a barrel, a black kitten, a (...) (26 years ago, 29-Sep-98, to lugnet.dear-lego)
  Re: UK brick box prices.
 
Hey, look, I was INTENSELY happy when the Target Promo Pack came out and I got the 2886 racecar. Then I was pissed when I could only get 16 boxes of it before they were all gone in our area, because only ONE of the local Targets carried them. I (...) (26 years ago, 30-Sep-98, to lugnet.dear-lego)
  Re: UK brick box prices.
 
Perhaps a Princess.... <sarah@eskimo.com> wrote in article <36137f50.12423164@2...63.236>... (...) EXCEPT (...) Lego (...) dumbed (...) Hear, hear! (...) Different shade of green. But I want all shades. It makes my town look better. (...) In this (...) (26 years ago, 2-Oct-98, to lugnet.dear-lego)

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  Re: UK brick box prices.
 
And while you're at it, can you send all those neat UK-only promos over to the US? You're spoiling UKers and torturing us. The Shell sets are killers, yet they are marching all over the world EXCEPT the US, it seems. I refuse to buy gas from Shell (...) (26 years ago, 29-Sep-98, to lugnet.dear-lego)

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