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Re: What's the biggest/best spare piece you ever got in a set?
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Date: 
Wed, 24 Nov 1999 20:36:38 GMT
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Paul Baulch wrote:

I just opened a 1761 Paradisa Motorboat (completely sealed) and got a spare
pink 1x6 plate, easily the biggest spare piece I've ever got, and in an
unusual colour, which makes it even better! Hopefully this happens a lot
with this set, so you could actually get a decent number of extra 1x6 plates
to help make something using pink..... which I'm sure could look good if you
did it right  ;-)

Paul

For me it was set 517, a 1980's small basic set that had 83 pieces to it.  It
cost about $4.99.  I bought one at a nearby toystore back around 1985.  When I
got to the car and opened it, instead of 2 of the yellow 2x2 windows, it had 4
of them.  Well I went back into the store and bought 3 more of them, each with
the extra 2x2 windows.  That made 16 yellow 2x2 windows.  Needless to say, when
I bought these sets at other stores I never found another with more than two of
these windows.  And I ended up buying about 90 of these.  That was because they
also had two 1x4x3 yellow windows with red panes,  and a lot of the low sloped
blue bricks and peaks.  I loved these old 517's.  I bought more of them than any
other set.  Other sets I bought in large quantites were the LEAR JET #455 and
the LONDON BUS #760.

Gary Istok



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I just opened a 1761 Paradisa Motorboat (completely sealed) and got a spare pink 1x6 plate, easily the biggest spare piece I've ever got, and in an unusual colour, which makes it even better! Hopefully this happens a lot with this set, so you could (...) (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)

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