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Re: WENT to legoland (wasRe: GOING to Legoland Sat, 1/13)
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lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.legoland
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Wed, 17 Jan 2001 14:18:16 GMT
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Remind me NEVER to make a one day run to SoCal again!
I started off late as I slept through my alarm (no great surprise, I went to bed at
1am and had the alarm set for 2am). I left at 7:15am. Driving "just a bit" too
fast, I made it to LLC around 1:30pm (450 miles in 395 minutes) by taking the 405.
Got my Bulk shopping done and left there by about 4pm. Then the fun began...
I took the 405 again on the way north, not realizing that it would bypass
Disneyland. I wanted to hit Downtown Disney. I realized I missed it when I hit
Six Flags :-(. I headed back south again, and hit the Disney exit at around 8. It
took OVER AN HOUR to get from the exit off of 5 into the parking garage! Did my
shopping at Downtown Disney (didn't buy a thing, the Lego shop there was overpriced
and had nothing I wanted that LLC didn't already have), left there around 11pm.
Got home at 3:45am Sunday. WAY too long of a trip for one day! 20.5 hours, 16-17
of it was driving.
Good points of the trip:
LIC didn't have ANY Opening Day bricks left, but an employee had one in his pocket
and gave it to me. I then asked all the other employees, but noone else had any -
at least I got one for me.
I saw Dennis Rodman leaving Downtown Disney ;-) Couldn't get my camera out fast
enough to get a pic before he got in the superstretch limo, though.
I managed to get some Shell sets at about 6 Shell stations. I goofed though - I
was so out of it by then that I THOUGHT I had picked up 20 1254s, when I had really
gotten 10 1254s and 10 1255s. If I would have realized that, I would have hit more
Shell stations for more 1254s. I didn't find a single 1256, and only ONE 1252 and
2 1253s.
I hit the Shell just south of Six Flags right before heading south again to DD.
They had NO Shell sets, but still had the signs out. So I asked if I could have
the signs. The girl at the register said I could take them, then looked under
their counter. They had NEVER put up the pennants, had a box FULL of them! I got
them all (I haven't counted, probably 6-10 ropes of them), grabbed the 3 "Lego
Inside" signs, and grabbed the signs showing 1246-1251 from off of 2 pumps.
Bad points:
Pure exhaustion. I was wiped out for the rest of the weekend, and was out sick
from work yesterday.
mfuss903 wrote:
> So how was the trip? I see you got shell sets, lol. It looks like we took
> advantage of the same sales at legoland (town folk, legoland truck - etc).
> So tell us about the trip.........
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> In lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, Tom Stangl writes:
> > So the 125x sets are still on sale at Shell stations down there? If so, COOL,
> > I'll fill my car with them on the way down/up(leaving some room for bulk
> > bricks) ;-)
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