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(...) Do yourself a favor and put that pocketbook away for a few weeks. The sales begin pretty quickly, but the only way you'll ever see the legendary 70% off sales is if you excercise some self control and ignore the run-of-the-mill 20% sales (and (...) (26 years ago, 24-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Target Sale: NOT A HOAX
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Someone returned empty-handed from a Target and was wondering if the rumored sale was a hoax. I can assure you that it is not. I visited four Atlanta area Targets today. I spent a total of $125, and got the big fiber-optic UFO set, both smaller (...) (26 years ago, 24-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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Do the clearance sales at Target start the day after X-mas, or a bit later? Also, what other U.S. stores have similar sales? -John Van (pocketbook ready to go) (26 years ago, 24-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | 1999 Technic US Catalog
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While looking for closeout deals at Target (Orlando, FL) this afternoon, I ran across the first Technic 1999 set. It's the Police buggy (8252). I haven't built the set yet but it came with a 1999 Technic catalog and a 1999 Technic S@H insert. There (...) (26 years ago, 24-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 1999 Technic catalogue scans uploaded
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Whoops! That should be: (URL) (26 years ago, 24-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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I bought an 8252 today and got an in-set European/Asian Technic catalogue. Its a bit disappointing as it almost certainly does not show the whole range. You can see it at: (URL) Holidays! Huw (26 years ago, 24-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Happy Holidays
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Well, I've spent the last few days being wonderfully ill, so I don't remember how I got here, but we're in Florida now and I wanted to sigh on and wish everyone a happy holiday season. Kinda nice to be wearing shorts to do my last minute shopping. (...) (26 years ago, 24-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Paint (again)....
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(...) one. (...) In my personal opinion, there is absolutely nothing wrong with painting mini figs (although I wouldn't do it) in fact, my friend has proven to me that paint, glue and exacto knives can seriously improve figures... (26 years ago, 24-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Legos Mentioned at Jennicam
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Howdy, ...Okay it's Christmas Eve. Time for oddball observations...what has been the oddest place you have noticed Legos displayed, referenced or mentioned? The Star Report? CNN coverage of Bhagdad? This thought hit me as I was reading "Jenni's (...) (26 years ago, 24-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: FOTW?
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(...) Hi Jasper, I am VERY interested in that 6382 Fire Station! $30 + shipping won't be a problem: I'm living in the Netherlands too. Mark (26 years ago, 24-Dec-98, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: STAND BACK! Rob Farver is going to have a heart attack!!!
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(...) Heh, I wondered about that too. I have quite a few copies of the 2152 set that has a bunch of them. +---...---+ | Rob Farver - rfarver@rcn.com | | (URL) | | (URL) | +---...---+ (26 years ago, 23-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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Pat, since no one else had stepped forward, here is the info you need to get any answer about your 700/0 set. It is of European origin. All US LEGO sets, which by the way started selling here in 1961, are made by Samsonite (1961-72) and are in the (...) (26 years ago, 23-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: STAND BACK! Rob Farver is going to have a heart attack!!!
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Rob, All you needed to do was ask!!!! I seem to have better luck finding these shutters than I am at finding the old castle minifigs that some folks are waiting on me for... Do you want only the large ones or also the ones for the 2x2 windows in (...) (26 years ago, 23-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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Hi. Walking by a used toy store here in town, I found a 6382 Fire Station from 1981, at a fotw like price, I suppose. Anyone interested? it's $30 + shipping from the Netherlands. I don't know about completeness, because I haven't bought it yet. I (...) (26 years ago, 23-Dec-98, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: STAND BACK! Rob Farver is going to have a heart attack!!!
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(...) Ok, then it's probably safe to say Pirates are recently old correct? They've been pretty well cleared out of all the TRUs and I only know one store in my area that has a single Pirate set left (Rocky Reef I believe, at full price, and with the (...) (26 years ago, 23-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Marsbase is fixed.
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(...) I found Marsbase to be a lot of fun. I especially liked the mail exchange between you and Pallas Spaceworks. Very authentically red-tapeish. Nice job! However I would like to suggest that the detailed discussions of how to get things to work (...) (26 years ago, 23-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Marsbase is fixed.
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(...) Glad I was able to help. You are indeed correct, my access at work is governed by a proxy server. Now if only we could work out why it was happening. Having got the menu to display I have spent a fair chunk of the morning looking thorough the (...) (26 years ago, 23-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 5571 Giant Truck - Largest Lego Set??
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(...) It's 50% off????? Woohoo!!! I feel a long Lunch coming on! Maybe I'll just take off the rest of the day. :) Jeff P.S. My adrenal glands just went into overdrive. ;) (26 years ago, 23-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Marsbase is fixed.
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Neil, Thanks for the heads up. Those links are fixed. I do just so love case sensitivity. 8) As for the missing 404errordoc message, I just havent' gotten around to putting together the page for that. Maybe later. In regards to having problems with (...) (26 years ago, 23-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Paint (again)....
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(...) I totally aggree! When TLG only had the classic smiley faces, my friend and I painted some of them to make our town look nicer. We also painted torsos and arms to make T-shirts and short sleeves and such. (26 years ago, 23-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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