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Hello! (...) This is correct. (...) I guess: The seller got some pressure from LEGO and/or Warner Bros. not to sell these instroction books before the official release of the sets... He got cold feet (do you say this in English?) Bye Jojo (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.harrypotter)
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Nothing exciting, you may have already seen it? but here it is anyway: (URL) lego poster for Harry Potter Mel (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.harrypotter)
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(...) Larry P noticed this over on .trains, and I can verify it now that I've looked at it too. The auction has also been ended early with no winners, the seller striking all bids because his or her cats have "pitched into" the instructions tonight (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.harrypotter)
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(...) Speaking of special pieces, is that a gryffendor shield the knight's holding? NICK (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
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(...) 4709 looks great! it looks like it has at least four owls, in several colors. light grey (on tallest tower) dark grey (on leftmost tower) black (just right of center tower) brown (on BURP in lower right) it also looks like it has some bats on (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.castle)
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(...) only, not the sets themselves-- can someone who speaks German please confirm this? Still-- pretty cool looking. Kevin (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.harrypotter)
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(...) Seem reasonable to me. My German ain't the greatest and no time to babelize it (in MSP airport and have to dash for a flight in 5 min) but I am reading that this auction is for the instructions only and it seems to have reached 1000 DM (but (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.trains)
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in article 3B3254C8.8BB62FED@nexgo.de, Johannes Koehler at chutspe@nexgo.de wrote on 6/21/01 4:10 PM: (...) Well, the castle is the same image I saw a week or so ago in Family Toy (which was probably out of Lego promo material sent to the manager), (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.harrypotter)
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(URL) many minifigs do you all count? I got 7 minifigs (one looks to be entirely gray; below Harry) & 1 creator fig (Hargrid) ```Only 8 figs in a $100.00 set?``` (...) Indeed, Credit indelibly goes out to both Folkart "Samweis" Thiele and Johannes (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.harrypotter)
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(...) Speaking of figs, that looks like an all-gray Peeves on the roof (maybe he'll have Vader's head!), and a Prof. Quirrel with the beard and turban on the bottom level. Kevin (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.harrypotter)
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OK OK, I wasn't the first who discovered this auction. I'm only the messenger. Folkart "Samweis" Thiele is the hero :-) (URL) Cameron schrieb: (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.harrypotter)
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(...) But isn't that the traditional train stuff on the front? (The bumper things. NOt sure what they're called..) and the magnet? I think it's probably compatible with 9V at least, if nothing else... Matt (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.trains)
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Oh crud, I didn't notice the axle on the train wheels, they're probally not train wheels at all, just spoked car wheels (like on the Adventure's cars) jt (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Are those black spoked train wheels flanged on the inner circumference? Are the axles Technic pins!? If so, possibility to widen or shorten the "gauge" of the wheels!? Whoah! No 9v motor in the Hog? Possibly a stand-alone push train? Push on (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Wow! And there is knight with a gray visored helm! Stone printed Droid Escape walls, no new broom piece, unfortunately. Very cool stuff! Kevin (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.harrypotter)
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There's no glass in the red train windows...what's up with that. I do like the black spoked train wheels, to bad no big drive wheels though. jt ------ James J. Trobaugh (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.trains)
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(...) I don't know, the layout could be faked, but those sets look pretty authentic. Its not how I expect the boxes to look, but as instruction covers its pretty convincing. Someone should ask the seller to put up a couple more images, of the back (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.harrypotter)
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(...) I don't give two hoots about Harry Potter, but I'm gratified to see that LEGO used minfigs rather than Creator-style abominations. Dave! (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.harrypotter)
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(...) WOW! Congrats Johannes! I think you just found the site of the day! I'll cross-post this to trains for you!!! That's right TRAINHEADS It's got the Hogwart's Express in it!!! (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.trains)
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(...) No... In the next 6 miniutes you will become famous. NICK Why couldn't I have found that? (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.harrypotter)
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