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A few months ago one of the AFOL's brought to my attention the fact that 12 spoke red train wheels were not produced for sale, and yet they show up in 1968-75 Lego brochures and books. I was unaware just how much this "faux pas" existed in old Lego (...) (21 years ago, 30-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Rarest Old Lego Part
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(...) Well Eric Strand brought this to my attention. These are the rare 1x1 round oil drums I was talking about: (URL) EBAY auction also shows the old 50's (earliest of 4 variations) Esso Pumps, and old 50's (earliest of 3 variations) Esso sign. The (...) (21 years ago, 30-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Toy store won't sell me any Lego!
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Michael, I worked at KB Toys back in my college years (1996-1998) and the poicy at the time was that we (KBToys) had the top toys that others did not. At the time that was the Hasbro Star Wars Figures, Hot Wheel Cars, and off course the Holidy (...) (21 years ago, 30-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Toy store won't sell me any Lego!
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(...) This is such a bizarre story.... perhaps you should contact your local TV news station. Most cities have "problem solvers" type news reporters who find stories that they try to solve, usually against corrupt businesses. But this one would make (...) (21 years ago, 29-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Toy store won't sell me any Lego!
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(...) This all sounds crazy --- but hey, it's a big world with lots of crazies! The average retailer would die for a customer who steadily $500 to $1500, espeically week after week. Heck, a customer like would get special treatment most places. (...) (21 years ago, 29-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
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| | Re: help/tip for building strange forms
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(...) things like this is Erik Olson's (URL) spheroid generator>. You could probably get some decent shapes by playing with that and plaster them together in LDraw. I hope you have a (URL) LOT> (URL) of> (2 URLs) plates> in the same color for this (...) (21 years ago, 29-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Toy store won't sell me any Lego!
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"Marc Nelson Jr." <legomarc@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:I9G985.CzI@lugnet.com... (...) stores (...) the (...) This is fairly easy to verify; KB Toys has posted the list of stores scheduled to close. The list is here: (URL) Either that, or (...) (21 years ago, 29-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | help/tip for building strange forms
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I have seen some pictures on Brickshelf of buildings with strange formed roofs or strange shaped walls like this: (URL) I want to build a model of a building from my hometown that also have a strange formed roof. You can see some picture of it here: (...) (21 years ago, 28-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Toy store won't sell me any Lego!
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In lugnet.general, Michael Hall wrote: (interesting story...) Hard to believe, even for KB. I thought they actually sold OVER retail in some cases? TRU used to give a small discount if you bought over 1000 USD at a time, if you knew to ask for it. (...) (21 years ago, 28-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Toy store won't sell me any Lego!
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(...) Well, that's certainly wacky, but I can offer one possible interpretation based upon my limited experience in retail. I worked at a small game/hobby store from 97 through 99 that sold a lot of role-playing games (among other stuff). One (...) (21 years ago, 28-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Toy store won't sell me any Lego!
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In lugnet.general, Michael Hall wrote: SNIP (...) I've noticed recently that a few of the nearby KB locations (in Baltimore/Central MD) have looked really empty. My guess is that these stores are on the chopping block for closure - although this has (...) (21 years ago, 28-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Toy store won't sell me any Lego!
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(...) Oh, what the hay. I don't want to get any of the employees at the stores in trouble, because they are all really friendly and great people, but I will release the store name anyway. The assistant manager, who is my favorite, is leaving anyway. (...) (21 years ago, 28-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Toy store won't sell me any Lego!
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(...) For a while, they were sending lots of sets and I was buying a good deal of them. The shelves weren't close to empty and I would leave some for the kids to buy. For some reason, that changed about three or four weeks ago, when they stopped (...) (21 years ago, 28-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Toy store won't sell me any Lego!
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(...) I agree with Dave, this is crazy, I think it might even be considered silly or rediculous. If you are actually paying retail as you say I can't see why they would care how much you bought. From your description I have to assume this is either (...) (21 years ago, 28-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Wow, that's CRAZY. I guess maybe I could see them worried about the stocking situation-- since IIRC Toys R Us managers can't control their inventory, they just get what's sent to them (assuming this is TRU or some store with a similar policy). (...) (21 years ago, 28-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Toy store won't sell me any Lego!
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Okay, here’s a kicker for you and I’m wondering if anything like this has happened to anyone else. I just got back from my local toy store (I won’t name which one yet) and was told that I couldn’t by large amounts of Lego from them anymore. This (...) (21 years ago, 28-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping) !
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| | LUGNET Posting Policy Update
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LUGNET administration has always had the ability to temporarily or permanently suspend the posting privileges of a user or member. In the past this has been only very rarely used. The mechanism for doing so was such that only Todd (or for a time, (...) (21 years ago, 28-Dec-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.terms, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Happy Holidays = LEGO under the tree
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(...) for me [LEGOSet 7317] for my son [LEGOSet 4561] (21 years ago, 27-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2004, FTX)
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| | Re: Happy Holidays = LEGO under the tree
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(...) Holiday Greetings! I pre-spent anticipated Christmas money and bought a 10133 Burlington Northern Santa Fe GP-38 Locomotive and a 10029 Apollo Lunar Lander for myself from S@H. My 7 year old son got the Lupin's Classroom and Sirius Black's (...) (21 years ago, 27-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2004)
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| | Re: Just build.....
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(...) Hmm... Perhaps I should mention that (URL) "Just Build"> is a MegaBloks trademark. Not that I'm complaining! Dave! FUT: lugnet.don't.flame.m...ing.a.joke (21 years ago, 27-Dec-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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