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Re: "Lego Minifigures"?
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lugnet.general
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Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:52:37 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Manfred Moolhuysen wrote:
> These are known as collectable minifigs, and were sold "blind" in non
> transparent polybags. There was a barcode trick though, permitting us to
> dertermine wich figure it contained. Two series of 16 different figures each
> have came out in shops in Europe, and in most places sold out extremly fast.
Thanks! So these weren't (officially) available in North America, then? Seems
weird to do a regional release for something like this.
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| (...) No, they were. There was a European polybag and a different North American polybag. The two sets of bags came with two different secondary barcodes, so if you had the US codes and bought some random minifigs from Europe, you wouldn't be able (...) (14 years ago, 29-Aug-10, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: "Lego Minifigures"?
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| (...) This is not so wierd for LEGO as you might think. On this side of the pond we've became pretty much used to the subject of North-American exclusives, amongst others the nice blue version of the "My Own Train" Passenger Wagon from set (URL) (...) (14 years ago, 29-Aug-10, to lugnet.general, FTX)
| | | Re: "Lego Minifigures"?
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| (...) They certainly were available. And the US even had sufficient stock unlike Australia where they sold out of most Toy Stores in less than a week. Tim (14 years ago, 29-Aug-10, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: "Lego Minifigures"?
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| (...) These are known as collectable minifigs, and were sold "blind" in non transparent polybags. There was a barcode trick though, permitting us to dertermine wich figure it contained. Two series of 16 different figures each have came out in shops (...) (14 years ago, 29-Aug-10, to lugnet.general)
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