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Re: Poor packaging by TLC (was: Has any one else noticed...)
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lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego
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Thu, 3 Feb 2000 17:56:07 GMT
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John Robert Blaze Kanehl wrote:

...an environmentalist's nightmare.....

speaking of...  My sister got me that new big ~800 piece basic set for
Christmas.  It's the one with six or seven smaller boxes of lego held
together by a cardboard frame.  It seems like a waste of packaging
to me, especially the raised baseplate that was packaged alone in
its own box.

-chris

ps.  The glue that held the boxes into the frame was nightmarish also.
I almost had to use a crowbar to pry them out ;)



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  Re: Poor packaging by TLC (was: Has any one else noticed...)
 
(...) Was this the K-Mart exclusive? The one with the 32x32 light green baseplate like 5978's? I didn't have any trouble getting the boxes out of the two copies I got... :) Jeff (URL) (25 years ago, 4-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)

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  Re: Poor packaging by TLC (was: Has any one else noticed...)
 
(...) I apoligize for the last post.....cat on keyboard..... The new packaging is a far cry from the "compartmentalized geek" boxes I loved as a kid.....To this day I still have the boxes to Universal Building sets 745 (1976?) and 733 (1979?). They (...) (25 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)

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