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Re: Shell promo sets coming to the U.S.!
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lugnet.promo, lugnet.general
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Sun, 13 Feb 2000 03:00:04 GMT
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This is cool, but I think the closest SHELL Station is about 130 miles away
(In Oklahoma City)
J.W.Hummer
In lugnet.promo, Steve Chuck writes:
> Today was Chinese New Year and over here they had a parade and a street fair.
> One of the booths at the fair was Shell Oil (they also had a float). It was a
> free game for the kids in which they try to buckle seat belts mounted on a
> board of painted children. Buckle them all up a get a toy (there was a timer
> also). Well, the toy was the Shell Lego promo set 2544 small technic cycle.
> So I asked one of the Shell representative where I can get the other sets
> (2535..2544) in the U.S. Well, he say that you will be able to buy them at • the
> Shell gas station in a few months. He says that the promo in Europe did very
> well and Lego and Shell decided to bring it to the U.S. for the first time to
> promo Lego and the sucess of Legoland. He says that there will be bigger sets
> (I assumed the 125x series).
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> I hope this is true and sounds exciting! They were also giving out a warning
> flyer with the 2544 set saying it was not for children under 7 due to small
> parts, so I don't know how they will do it in the stores. The cases the 2544
> came in looked like they hold 150-200 sets! and on the side was a check box to
> indicate which of the ten set numbers it contains.
>
> Time to check from Shell if this is really true!
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