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Re: 2532 Passenger Jet: Your worst fears realized...
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 22 Apr 1999 01:17:06 GMT
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Steve Bliss wrote:
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> On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 19:02:36 GMT, "Gene Rodriguez III" <gr3@superlink.net>
> wrote:
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> > In lugnet.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > > My question would be whether it uses thinwalls. If the plane body is
> > > mostly thinwalls and soforth, it may be worth it at 19.95, but if it's
> > > all solid white bricks, may not be.
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> > Larry,
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> > 2532 does indeed use thinwalls (as well as hinged slopes), as such it may be a
> > decent source for these parts...
> >
> > The sticker windows though! I'm *still* having a hard time getting used to the
> > idea. [shiver] You can't tell from the scan, but the stickers are multi-part
> > and even on the box art THEY DON'T LINE UP!
> >
> > It may not use Jr parts, but that certainly doesn't keep it from being
> > Juniorized... I'm just hoping that (as someone else speculated) these are just
> > something TLG got stuck with and are trying to dump.
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> I'm not clear on where this set is coming from -- is it an airline-only
> promotional set? If so, which airline? The box looks like NA-issue; it
> has the piece count on it (and English/French/Spanish captions).
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> As a promo set, the airline may have wanted TLG to cheap-out. Stickers and
> simple plane-walls would be cheaper than plane-window parts. Especially if
> TLG had a stock of white thin-walls pieces.
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> Steve
When I called S@H today the rep said 2532 is going to be in the next S@H
catalogue and they had LOTS of the sets in stock (whatever that means)
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