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Subject: 
Re: Fun LEGO purchase
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:35:24 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jan-Albert van Ree wrote:
> Pedro Silva wrote:
> 
> > I suspect these are the same bags that we saw at LEGOworld 2003; only
> > there the price was 5 EUR per bag, and we could sort the bricks ourselves.
> > Very cool. The only bad thing was the parts without match (ie, left wings
> > without right wings), but I still came back home with 4 or 5 bags :-)
> > 
> > I was told LEGO offered these for retail sellers in Europe, but don't know
> > details, sorry :-(
> 
> These boxes were most likely filled with production leftovers... quality is
> a mixed bag (I've had half a dozen bad 2*3 sloped light-grey so far) but
> there's a nice selection.

(I got six of those grey slopes; *all* are defective :-)

> I've so far "raided" about 12 stores and have
> discovered that left&right of pieces were randomly scattered. Sometimes
> you're lucky in one box, sometimes you need to take a chance and wait for
> another box to come by for the other side (have had that lots of times,
> with wedges and car doors mostly) All boxes are filled pretty random, two
> weeks ago I discovered one that was half-full with JUST 6*12 tan plates and
> 8*16 darkgrey bricks...

Yeah, I remember when I was parting the bags with ITLUG members, and we found a
whole bunch of orange left wings... quite odd!

> Overall, the boxes are an AWESOME way to expand your parts collection, the
> price per part is VERY hard to beat, specially if you can fill up the bags
> yourself.

Yup :-)
The best parts, for me at least, were some minifig accessories. That, and train
windows!


Pedro



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  Re: Fun LEGO purchase
 
(...) These boxes were most likely filled with production leftovers... quality is a mixed bag (I've had half a dozen bad 2*3 sloped light-grey so far) but there's a nice selection. I've so far "raided" about 12 stores and have discovered that (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.no)

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