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Re: Now I understand...
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 15 Apr 1999 18:15:20 GMT
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Tom McDonald wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Steve Bliss writes:
> > After viewing the images at Sanjay's "The World of LEGO Promotion" website
> > <http://homepages.ihug.co.nz./~jsds/>, I can understand why the Spirit of
> > St. Louis and London Bus are such sought-after sets.
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> Even though it had no minifigs, I still like that set: it was a virtual window
> part set. I still have some of those funky idented red plates. The pieces with
> the stickers have long separated, and the stickers themselves look like
> garbage. And the red corner slopes... <dreamy sigh> I also have a nice small
> parts drawer filled with the windows from two of those sets. Truly a real town
> set if there ever was one.
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> The black stickers on the bus listed Hyde Park as one of its stops. Too bad
> that wasn't a set. Now _that_ would have been something.
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> -Tom McD.
(I know some of you hate this story...) I remember paying $7.35 per set of the
London Bus sets back in 1986 in a clearance sale. I can't say I wish I would have
bought more, cuz I bought all 35 at the Toy Store chains 6 Metro Detroit outlets.
At 24 windows per set, that's 840 classic windows!!
Gary Istok
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| (...) Even though it had no minifigs, I still like that set: it was a virtual window part set. I still have some of those funky idented red plates. The pieces with the stickers have long separated, and the stickers themselves look like garbage. And (...) (26 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.general)
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