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I had a similar expirience some time ago.
On our yearly "Round-trip in Estonia 2003" was passed through Valga/Valka on
Sunday. Valga/Valka is a small city 4-5 hours from here at the Latvian
border (that's why it has 2 names - the border goes through people's
gardens. Just to get the mail they need their passport!) with some 12000
sleepy citizens.
Anyway, there are 2-3 toyshops there, and in one of them I noticed some old
sets. Of course I see that on a Sunday.
The good thing is that a friend is going there soon and he will buy some
things for me...
I have been driving places to get sets, but 5 hours to get to the shop is
too much. Not that expensive though, some 20 USD for a return ticket, but
the sets are not that much worth,
Sonnich
In lugnet.general, Arne Lykke Nielsen writes:
> I have found a town completely devoid of any AFOLs. Proof: set 383 being on
> the shelf of a toy store for 25 years without being bought!!!
> The town is Helsingborg in Sweden, the shop is a combined
> bicycle-and-toy-shop(at Södergatan/Bollbrogatan).
> This shop has 1000's of old toywares (like lots of Playmobil and LEGO), and
> nothing is newer than 1995. I've done some very nice buying there for the
> last couple of weeks (6080, 6384, Fabuland etc.), but still there are so
> many old LEGO sets left on the shelves - not to the prices 25 years ago, but
> only slightly updated (e.g. 6080 for 698 SKr = 70$, originally 59$ in 1984).
> As I have strained my financial means seriously now, I'm giving the address
> to this gem to the LUGNET community, so other AFOL's can have their dreams
> come through.
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