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Re: TRU & Missed Opportunity
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lugnet.org.us.richlug, lugnet.general
Date: 
Mon, 16 Apr 2001 20:33:01 GMT
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In lugnet.org.us.richlug, Maggie Cambron writes:
In lugnet.org.us.richlug, Greg Perry writes:

To my utter disgust I discovered that 3/18 - 4/18 is (pretty much was) LEGO
month at TRU.  There were a couple of special events, the most recent this
past Saturday 4/14 (the Life on Mars Event).

I wish I had known that this was going on - it probably would have been a
great opportunity for RichLUG to introduce itself to the TRU folks and maybe
even meet someone from LEGO. Oh well.

Did anyone else make it to any of the Events at the store?

I took my kids to the LEGO Racers event at my local TRU.  No one really knew
what was going on; they just had a place set up where a store employee would
race a kid with the racers.  I noticed the employees wearing LEGO Racer
buttons, so I asked if I could snag a couple.  They were clueless until someone
brought out a large bagful. Evidently they were supposed to have been giving
them away to the kids, but forgot (the event was winding down by this time).
Of course, my kids wanted me to buy them each a racer, but they were $3.99 at
TRU while they are $2.99 everywhere else, so no could do.

The only thing that might be worthwhile would be if you can find any of the LOM
mail-in rebate coupons ($10 off a $30 purchase until April 30).  But the TRU
employees on the whole seem pretty clueless about those too.

Maggie C.

The coupons were for Alpha Team, and you might be able to talk to a Lego
customer service phone person about that as only 1 of 6 TRU stores in my
area (Inland Empire area of California) bothered to dig to the bottom of the
trash for the coupons that were supposed to go with the Alpha Team display.
TRU just blows.  Don't go there if you can help it.
Best,
Aaron



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  Re: TRU & Missed Opportunity
 
(...) Oops, yeah, you're right. My mistake (must've been preoccupied...). BTW I haven't seen any of those 4816-4819 sets you've seen at KB Liquidators. Do you know if they came in before the other stuff and perhaps got sold already? And wasn't $4.99 (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.org.us.richlug, lugnet.general)

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(...) I took my kids to the LEGO Racers event at my local TRU. No one really knew what was going on; they just had a place set up where a store employee would race a kid with the racers. I noticed the employees wearing LEGO Racer buttons, so I asked (...) (24 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.org.us.richlug, lugnet.general)

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