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"Tim Tosino" <timtosino@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GJzsAo.Ipu@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) Does Wal-Mart have some sort of Harry Potter exclusive for a little while? LEGO has done things like this in the past, the most (...) (23 years ago, 21-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) I have no idea, with the closest WalMart Canada being I think on the North Shore that's almost an hour's drive from where I live. Anyone in North Vancouver who checked it out? -Tim (23 years ago, 21-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.loc.ca)
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No signs of any HP sets on the east coast either. I checked Wal-Mart and Zellers earlier in the week. Andrew (23 years ago, 21-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.loc.ca)
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I was told last week by the big downtown Toronto Toys R Us that the Harry Potter sets have arrived in the Canadian TRU warehouses on the 15th of September, and could wind up on the shelves "within a day or within a month." I've been checking three (...) (23 years ago, 25-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) Any luck this week? I was thinking of looking in Metrotown, the the fact that the TRU is located on the other side of the mall from the Sky Train Station and they rerouted all the bus routes makes it somewhat of an inconvience. (23 years ago, 25-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.loc.ca)
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I checked a local TRU today and was told they'd have the Harry Potter sets 'early or middle of October' and I checked a Walmart and they're Lego selection was pretty poor, as usual, and no HP. Couldn't even find an employee to ask. Oh well. Adam (...) (23 years ago, 27-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) I managed to catch Walmart in Sherwood Park while they were doing their fall toy re-org, and caught a semi-knowledgable employee... no estimate on when the HP stuff would be in, but she did know that it wouldn't be a shelf-stocked item (at (...) (23 years ago, 27-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) I was there yesterday (27th), and nada. They did have 2 of the new green "Supercar", the 4X4 Off-Roader (Set 8466). Fairly cool, but I'll pass. Robin (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.loc.ca)
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Hello from Kitchener, The local TRU had pretty well all of them ...train, castle, small sets, ... must have had about 8 different sets. I bought my two boys the small set with the spinning wheel at Walmart in Kitchener...$9.86 Cdn. Walmart had the (...) (23 years ago, 29-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) From Edmonton, TRU had nothing yesterday, Walmart in Sherwood Park has Hogwarts, but nothing else yet. Can't talk, building. :) James (23 years ago, 30-Sep-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) I went into TRU Metrotown on Tuesday and bought one of the Alley Magic Shops sets, they had pretty much everything even one box of the large castle and Hogwart's Express but I couldn't find the class room set (maybe some TRU employee saw they (...) (23 years ago, 3-Oct-01, to lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.loc.ca)
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I found the HP Sorting Hat set (4701) at Wal-Mart in Square 1, They also had the Manas (8539 attn Chris Magno) they were selling for 88.89. "Tim Tosino" <timtosino@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GKMy7B.E76@lugnet.com... (...) Shops (...) boxes (...) (23 years ago, 6-Oct-01, to lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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