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Picture this, you find a tiny little toy store hidden somewhere in the bowls of a mall....and inside you find every single Lego set you ever wanted (even some you never thought existed) every town, technic, space, castle, and pirate sets ever made, (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) It reminds me of those milk commercials, when the guy was in heaven, and was eating (Never mind the fact that heaven you don't eat) all the pastries, cookies, etc. he always wanted, and he went to the fridge, and all the milk was gone. Then he (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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Picturing it is not hard. The real problem *is*: Do you keep it a quiet secret or do you mention it on lugnet and cause major traffic ties-ups in front of the mall ;) Ray (running and ducking) (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Damn you caught my secre- err ignore that >:-) Erin -- Even minifigs need a vacation Seaborn Brick delayed cuz of a sudden brick shortage (25 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) pirate (...) Yes!!!...!!! (...) Yes!!!...!!! (...) (no!!!!) (...) was (...) corecto-mondo (...) Yeah, the guy typed in g-u-n-s and out poured the lasers! I wish I could do that... l-e-g-o... crap. (...) Me Alex P.S. to Scott: thanks (25 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) My version of this dream is finding that elusive strip mall that has the Mr. Bulky LEGO Parts store. You go inside and see nothing but large barrels or bins all over the place. Each barrel has a plastic lid and a large scoop inside with (...) (25 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yours too, huh Gary? I always dreamed of opening a store like that, but from TLG (LG) (LC) (Whatever!) I don't think it will ever happen though. Oh, to have a whole bin of Classic Space Symbols! :) Bunches of Futuron minifigs! "I'm sorry, Mr. (...) (25 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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Gary Istok <gistok@umich.edu> wrote in message news:3832D5E0.CEA147...ich.edu... (...) bowls (...) (even (...) pirate (...) Bulky (...) all (...) and fill (...) railing (...) what (...) also (...) This would explain the dreamlike quality of (...) (25 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I'm familiar with the test of character part - if not in relation to MIT - the 'build a castle' place at LLC had bins of mixed parts - among which were *lots* of dark grey macaroni bricks and black extreme slope corners. It was literally an (...) (25 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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I haven't been reading the posts on lugnet.general much lately but just noticed yours and thought I'd brighten your day. What you describe is possible, I know, as I found it about twelve months ago and have been madly buying up as much as I can (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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My once in a lifetime find was in 3 small toystores (5 miles apart) in northern Bavaria Germany in 1979... shall I say (all MINT) - 2500 windows & doors (#214 1-10) LEGO dealer boxes, (3) 1962 wooden box sets (#712, #712, #711) , a Building Idea (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, I'm hoping Gary gets around to cleaning up all those tubs of unwanted bricks so I can have a Find of a Lifetime! ;) Scott S. ___...___ Scott E. Sanburn CAD Operator Affiliated Engineers, Inc. Work Page: (URL) Page: (URL) LEGO Page: (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) <snipped list of jealous rage-inducing finds ;)> (...) You can say that again! ;) Jeff (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Oooh! Oooh! Can I help?!? ;) Jeff (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) You don't get to eat in heaven? I'll take hell, then. Jasper (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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