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On one of my many recent ventures to the local shops I have noticed something that seems to be happening almost universally. Lego's are disappearing. I don't mean that they are selling off of the shelves but that they are just not there. I stopped (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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I'm curious: what part of the country (I'm assuming you're in the USA.) do you live in? I see more than my fair share of Mega-Blocks here in Indiana, but I haven't seen any kinds of take-overs like you described. I feel badly for your state/region (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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In Vancouver (Canada) at the Toys R Us they put LEGO on one side of the asile and the Megablocks on the other. Of course it's someone from the LEGO who sets up the display, so they wouldn't settle with anything less. In my experience in buying used (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I was expecting to get to the end of your long message and see "it was all a dream", since much of it seems pretty fanciful to me. Here in San Francisco every TRU and Target has *plenty* of shelf-feet of Lego; several Targets even have an (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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Detroit, Michigan "David "Fuzzy" Gregory" <crazylegoman@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:HAuMLu.7Do@lugnet.com... (...) USA.) do (...) Indiana, but (...) for (...) moving. (...) piece (...) that (...) then (...) +$ = (...) At (...) rest. (...) (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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"Jason Haskamp" <Niccalo@comcast.net> wrote in message news:HAuJr8.11p@lugnet.com... <snip dramatic story> I have to say this sounds like a bit of a troll to me, but I appear to be biting to a degree. Where in the heck do you live? What are "the (...) (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.general, Jason Haskamp writes: Where Lego signs hung, were rows upon rows of (...) One of the blessings of living in Denmark is that there are just LEGO, no clones. Well, at least that is what it used to be, but recently MegaBlocks have (...) (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.general, Jason Haskamp writes: Jason, If you are from the Detroit area, come to the Michlug meeting Saturday. We would love to meet another AFOL Lester (...) (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.general, Jason Haskamp writes: <snip> This may be a regional thing. I've noticed that in my area (Edmonton, AB) that the lower end shops (Zellers & Walmart) are tending to have less Lego and more Megabloks. Zellers gives them about equal (...) (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) all (...) have (...) vary (...) My local Walmart in N. California has one side of an aisle for building kits with approximately the following makeup: 1/2 LEGO 1/3 MegaBloks 1/6 Other (K'Nex, Lincoln Logs, etc...) I've definitely seen MegaBloks (...) (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Bare with me...A Troll? But it has been some time since I was a regular reader of any newsgroups. I was leary of nameing stores in my original post, but since I have turned up somewhat of a Hornets nest here, I will say Target, Meijer, and (...) (22 years ago, 27-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Lester, Thanks for thie invite, I have checked the website that the group has listed, and even signed up for the Yahoo group. But right now I work all weekend long, but I do hope to hit up a few meetings in the near future. (...) (22 years ago, 27-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I find the Wal-Marts in my area (London --> Kitchener ON) to be extremely hit and miss. They are best stocked just before Christmas, but otherwise, it's often not worth even stopping in to see what's there. (...) Zellers stores, on the other (...) (22 years ago, 27-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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Allen this is exactly the point that I was trying to make. It seems that at one point time the choice was lego, and only lego, so those of us that have been building for years already have a history with one product vs. another. The MB product in my (...) (22 years ago, 27-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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I forgot to mention something interesting the last time I posted to this thread. I work at a hardware/department store, and we sell Mega Bloks, but no LEGOS. We've had bulk buckets of Mega Bloks since before October. We didn't sell them at (...) (22 years ago, 19-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Something else may have happened to all that LEGO. In recent weeks much of that Lego has gone on clearance. Up to 75% off. I spent the better part of the last several weeks going from store to store clearing the shelves of most of the stock. (...) (22 years ago, 19-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Perhaps you've seen the miles of aisles at Toys R Us chock full of Galidor and Jack Stone merchandise, which don't vanish from the shelves even at deep (like 80%) discount. (...) Where do you work, which set # was it, how much were you selling (...) (22 years ago, 19-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) They exist, and we are among you... Dave! (22 years ago, 19-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) You say it like you're surprised Galidor and Jack Stone aren't selling. ^_^ -Andrusi && Sanity not included. (22 years ago, 19-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.general, Jason Haskamp writes: <snip> Yhis is indeed a grievous situation. There's only one solution: we must go to our local stores and buy out their entire stock of Lego. Everywhere. Then wait for the next shipment and do it again--this (...) (22 years ago, 19-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Nope. My Toys R Us only has a few Galidor left and no Jack Stone. (...) I work at a hardware store called Menard's. They aren't all over the country like Lowe's. We're based in Wisconsin and don't have any stores south of Indiana. I think (...) (22 years ago, 20-Mar-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Like 'LEGO'? ;) Is it misspelled or just invented? Either way, it's not a word that's likely to be recognized by many scholars as being spelled correctly. (...) Actually, there's a very serious reason why companies purposely misspell words (...) (22 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) DUDE! Do your lego research! 'LEGO' was originally derived by Ole Kirk Christianson as a contraction of the Danish phrase 'leg godt,' meaning, "play well." However, 'lego' is also latin for 'to put together.' <snip> (...) Actually, lego was (...) (22 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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DUDE! I totally agree with you on the whole phonetic-spelling-is-better thing. I know that English has the most horrific spelling of any language on the planet, but if people are writing in that language, then they should spell the words right. (...) (22 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Sounds like Swedish spelling this far :) Fotograf is actually thr Swedish spelling for photografer. Funny story, thanks! Best regards, /Tobbe (URL) SPAM when e-mailing) (22 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) All true. And good to point out. I guess my point was to illustrate that the LEGO company name is one of those words you won't find in a standard English dictionary... for the reason that it's an obscure or otherwise unique word that could be (...) (22 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) In Portuguese it's a 1st person Present form of "to leave legacy" (as in a will, "I leave... to..."). Try to find LEGO-related websites in Portuguese to see what I'm talking about - about half the sites refer to legal talk over legacies :-/ (...) (22 years ago, 21-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I don't know that I'd call it horrific, but it's certainly in a class of its own. I have found that by trying to understand the etymology (1) of certain words you can actually grow fond of the bizarre ways in which they are spelt... or is it (...) (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Actually, it has been more or less officially done. When Norway became an independent country, they tried to rid the Norwegian language of the influence from the two former mothercountries, Denmark and Sweden. This resulted in the constructed (...) (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Man, I had no idea anyone EVER took what I said seriously. : ) Just so everyone knows, whenever I post ANYTHING on the internet (here, there, anywhere), it's not meant to be taken too seriously. It's just the internet, and I've never met (...) (22 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I found the set #'s to two of the Mega-Blok buckets: 974 and 976. I couldn't get to the other ones because they had been put away. These are the same buckets I've seen in Wal-Mart for $10. I underestimated when I said we had 300 buckets. We (...) (22 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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WARNING: Overly analytical and highly anal retentive reply follows. :) (...) I guess my honest and sincere response to that statement would be: Why wouldn't you expect to be taken seriously? If you reread your posting: (URL) much of the message you (...) (22 years ago, 26-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) C'mon Allan, he calls himself "Fuzzy"-- how serious can he be? :-) Maggie C. (22 years ago, 26-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I'm not sure what "lacking sharp distinctness or clarity" has to do with being serious or not. ;) Sincerely... but not seriously, Allan B. (22 years ago, 26-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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