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I'm just curious to hear which sets and themes are doing well, and which ones aren't. Where I am, Arctic has just *flown* off the shelves. None of the bigger stores have any left. Star Wars is doing quite well for the most part -- Slave I's, (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) YEAH, The castle stuff is great in my opionon. LOVE IT. The artic is GREAT. The tracks available on some of their sets work great for Tank tracks. The Flash Speeder is great too. They all seem to be selling quite well, MUCH better than 1999 (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) None of the 2000 sets are left at any of the stores (1 Target, 2 TRU, 2 Fred Meyer) that I check. Even the Gungan Patrol is selling like ice cream in the summer, which is a shame as that is one of the few 2000 SW sets of which I want more than (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) hmmm... It hasta be something to do with the local market conditions. My local WM supercenter has most everything in stock (except king leos castle, which they never got). Very little product movement here (north florida). I suspect that most (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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Out here in CA the TRU's seem to fairly well stocked although I've yet to chance upon a Slave-1. The B-Wing has good parts but I think the model is a little flimsy and should been R&D'd a bit more. I think the Arctic sets are REALLY Juniorized (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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David Simmons wrote in message ... (...) Just a small defense for RR, The tunnel trasnport (4980) comes with a bunch of useful pieces. plenty of grey slopes, a (comparative) bunch of bricks, the figures are cool, I can't get enough of the teal (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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"Jonathan Wilson" <wilsonj@xoommail.com> wrote in message news:3891607B.12B7C8...ail.com... (...) Whereas other things in real life -- Buildings, Spaceships, Cars, Trucks -- are made the normal way: out of small, rectangular plastic bricks. :) (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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Jonathan Wilson wrote in message <3891607B.12B7C847@x...il.com>... (...) are (...) extreme (...) prefab in (...) I've also had another though on this. I've just finished building a bunch of older space sets (6990, 6894, 6923, 6886, and 6811), and (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) True but that is how it works out in the polar regions. Everything is prefab in real life so TLG's sets are accually remarkably prototipycal. -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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