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Re: LEGEND sets in stores?!
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Sun, 15 Dec 2002 21:40:01 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Josh Opotzner writes:
> I just got back from TRU. I had my $10 off $50 Star Wars LEGO coupon in my
> pocket; I anticipated buying the $30 Jabba's Palace and TIE Bomber together
> for $45, then toss in a Jabba's Prize to break $50. I walked into the store
> and at the front was a large display of LEGO products, at least 70% of which
> was Harry Potter. It didn't take me long to confirm that there was no SW to
> be found there, and kept marching right on to the standard LEGO section.
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> But blah; they had little more than the T-16 Skyhopper. They had sold
> practically everything since my last visit (yesterday). I navigate through
> the crowd towards the front and am about to leave, but defying hope I walk
> back to the display at the front.
>
> Harry Potter. Feh. Bionicle. Feh. 1990 Town Set. Fe--1990 TOWN SET??!!!
>
> In a far corner of the shelf it shone like a beam of light, a symbol of hope
> in a war-scarred and corrupted world...the world that we used to know as
> LEGOLAND.
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> Breezeway Cafe. In a yellow box. And right next to it, Pizza To Go, in a
> blue box. Just like I remember it. I could have wept.
> So...many...classic...smilies...in one set...
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> There is new hope for us. Old sets-at retail. No calling up, paying
> shipping, and waiting. Ohhh no. You can go to the store and buy them and
> rush home and open the box in a maniacal rage, laughing madly as 5 classic
> smiley heads grin at you through the little bags, just like it was years ago.
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> <calms down> whoo OK...the sets were $19.99 each...yes both of them. With
> the BOGO 50% off, I got both for $30. (of course I tossed in a few of those
> 1000 piece creator buckets too...eight 1x2 trans light-blue bricks per
> bucket?! Dayum). If I must come up with a gripe, the Cafe has the terrible
> new style heavy-cardboard packaging. Big whoop. I didn't find my Star
> Wars, but I still made out pretty darn good. All the normal bricks! And
> town stuff!
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> I think that the Breezeway Cafe has double significance: I believe that this
> is the first time it was ever available at retail in the US.
>
> --Josh
Hehe. I was at the Chicago Lego Store in North Bridge, they had the 2003
sets, a new shipment of it all is coming in Saturday. (I nabbed the last
AT-TE, no T-16's, they sold out, plenty of jabba palace stuff) Anyways,
they had all that, and the Metroliner, as well. They also had the Statue of
Liberty. :-D
P.S. The Basketball stuff has bad heads, very very bad heads.
~Evan Butzlaff
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