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Re: no minifig in my Island game
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lugnet.games.lego.island, lugnet.general
Date: 
Thu, 28 Oct 1999 02:53:57 GMT
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   Sorry for another late response.   Awhile back I started scanning old
Mania magazines, and learned something about this Lego Island game.  Lego
Island was the first Lego video game.  When it was first released, it
included a comic, which I thought was cool, since I collected comics at one
time, and still have a Pirates comic from 1990.  When TLG began releasing
other video games (Creator, Chess and Loco) with mini-figs (I guess the
comic didn't help boost sales enough) they started putting mini-figs in Lego
Island as well.  For some reason, all of these games were sold with either a
mini-fig included or with a mail in card - I don't know why.  I got all the
mini-figs and all the games, and noticed that the mail in cards (at least
those I got) let you check the figure you wanted, so I used the coupon from
Lego Loco to get another Chess (King) mini-fig (incidentally Lego Loco and
Lego Chess came packaged together in shrink wrap from Costco for $19.99 -
pretty good buy, IMO).  Now I wonder if the new games which don't currently
include mini-figs will eventually have mini-figs included to boost sales.  I
think the Racers game is bound to be popular, and so a free mini-fig is not
required.  Ramble, ramble...
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   John
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Matthew Miller wrote in message ...
Mike Lalande <baronzemo@hotmail.com> wrote:
in specific stores?  The fact that he's bagged rather than boxed leads me • to
believe that it was a limited-time promotion and was not actually included
in-box.  Has anyone bought the game and found this figure included in the
package?

Yes -- It was included in the box I bought. There was a sticker on the box
which said "Minifig inside!", or something to that effect.

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Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us                       ---> • http://quotes-r-us.org/




Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: no minifig in my Island game
 
(...) I'm not sure this is correct. I know I purchased the game when it first came out, long before they had any other games, and it included a minifig. (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.games.lego.island, lugnet.general)
  Re: no minifig in my Island game
 
(...) Nope. The 'first edition' of LEGO Island included both the limited-edition InfoManiac minifig, and a manual/comic book. I'm not sure if that's the same comic as you mentioned. But the minifig was definitely in the first wave of the software. (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.games.lego.island, lugnet.general)

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  Re: no minifig in my Island game
 
(...) Yes -- It was included in the box I bought. There was a sticker on the box which said "Minifig inside!", or something to that effect. (25 years ago, 13-Oct-99, to lugnet.games.lego.island, lugnet.general)

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