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Re: LEGO DUPLO eggs and K-Mart sale!
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Sun, 26 Mar 2000 00:21:34 GMT
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Jon Palmer <jpalmer123@oklahoma.netSTOPSPAM>
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Does anyone else think that these would be GREAT space elements? I know I
know there prefab and kinda big but after adapting them to system scale you
could use them for all sorts of purposes.

    -a large cryo unit!
    -an escape pod. You could add all sorts of smaller bits around the
outside with some ingenuity.
    -part of a large ship like a special dome or canopy. That clear egg dome
would look real cool underneath a large ship- maybe angled forward a bit.
    -a small greenhouse inside the ship? cool... maybe the ship would be
really dank and dirty but this one crew member misses his homeworld and
preserves the plants and flowers from it.
    -heck how bout a cage for alien critters or an aquarium?
    -you could use them on small fighters! I have got to figure out how to
do this!
    -break the pieces up and use the bottom piece (blue will go good---I'm
already gonna get these for my ship!) for bits of hull detail or as caps to
tanks or use them on the ships drive system.

    Jon  : )

    web: http://www.geocities.com/legotiel/Bardiel.html

-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com>
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Date: Saturday, March 25, 2000 12:53 PM
Subject: LEGO DUPLO eggs and K-Mart sale!


Get thee out to K-Mart!  :)

K-Mart stores in Boston (maybe everywhere?) are having a BOGO (Buy One Get • One
50%-off) sale on all LEGO, and the new LEGO DUPLO "eggs" are on the shelves
here!  :-s

There are 4 eggs so far (I'm hopefully expecting more, and I'm hoping these
aren't just purely a short-term promo):

  http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=2751

These eggs are much cooler than they look at first glance --

*  The top and bottom separate into two *real* and usable DUPLO elements
  (with small holes so your kid won't suffocate).

*  You can fit a PRIMO fig inside the egg.  (One of the DUPLO sets comes • with
  a DUPLO kid fig and a racecar that actually fits inside of the egg.)

*  The top (clear) half of the egg has 4 DUPLO studs on top, and the bottom
  (colored) half of the eggs has 4 DUPLO studs on the inside.

*  The bottoms come in four colors:  blue, red, yellow, and green.

And the best part!--

*  The egg pieces are DUPLO compatible (naturally :) but also PRIMO • compatible
  (most DUPLO things are :) and SYSTEM compatible.

*  To adapt the brick to SYSTEM compatibility, simply use two 2x4 SYSTEM
  bricks at the base inside!  Now you've basically got a LEGO SYSTEM egg,
  and you can put minifigs and whatever else you want inside the egg!  :-s

*  These would be fun for a kid to leave out for Easter, the night before,
  and see if the Easter Bunny fills 'em up with jelly beans.  (I'm gonna
  try that.  :)

*  With K-Mart's BOGO sale, these are $2.99 each plus sales tax.

Bad things:

*  The only way to get the green egg bottom is to buy a Little Forest • Friends
  set.  (Little Forest Friends are those "fleshy-dough-blob" people that • came
  out in DUPLO last year that look like Strawberry Shortcake meets the
  Smurfs.)  But for 3 bucks, it's still not that bad.

*  All four of the sets have the same set number and the same UPC symbol.
  Grrrowl.  %^E

--Todd



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  Re: LEGO DUPLO eggs and K-Mart sale!
 
Jon Palmer wrote in message ... (...) They look very interesting indeed, but can anyone confirm whether their open end connects firmly onto a pattern of (SYSTEM) studs? That'd make them a heap more usable. I'd _definitely_ use them then! Cheers, (...) (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.space)
  Re: LEGO DUPLO eggs and K-Mart sale!
 
(...) [snip] I don't know about space, but my first thought was "Invasion of the Body Snatchers!!! Skeletons turn into knights, darth vader becomes a fireman, the Adventurers mummies become forestmen. (25 years ago, 27-Mar-00, to lugnet.promo, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.fun.holiday, lugnet.space)  

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  LEGO DUPLO eggs and K-Mart sale!
 
Get thee out to K-Mart! :) K-Mart stores in Boston (maybe everywhere?) are having a BOGO (Buy One Get One 50%-off) sale on all LEGO, and the new LEGO DUPLO "eggs" are on the shelves here! :-s There are 4 eggs so far (I'm hopefully expecting more, (...) (25 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.duplo, lugnet.primo, lugnet.promo, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.fun.holiday, lugnet.market.shopping) ! 

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