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Re: Any HP sets in Canada?
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lugnet.harrypotter, lugnet.loc.ca
Date: 
Thu, 27 Sep 2001 05:19:14 GMT
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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

In lugnet.harrypotter, Greg Hyland writes:
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 Toys R Us' around me in Toronto (Queen&Young, Young&Eglington,
Duffrin Mall) on a rotating daily basis.

The closest WalMart to me (at Duffrin Mall) has a toy department that looks like
a bomb went off in it, and is often used by parnets as a day-care centre (I have
seen parents open toys and give them to kids to play with on the store floor).
It took weeks after everyone else go them for this WalMart to get the last Star
Wars wave, so I'm not holding my breath that they'll have Harry Potter anytiome
soon.

I'll keep checking, though...



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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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  Re: Any HP sets in Canada?
 
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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