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(...) Add Czech Republic to the list. I wrote a small script to recompute the czech MSRP (price / 1.19 / 27 ) = 19% is the tax, 27 Kc per 1 US dollar. Then I divided czech price by US MSRP price and got: 1.00-1.20x = Orient Expedition, Belvile, (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
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(...) LOL! If your castle gives you as much amusement as reading your post did to me, you deserve every brick of it! Thanks for brightening 2am in the morning! James (who isn't up late, honest!) (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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<snip> (...) Benjamin, I believe that the answer is (at least) twofold: 1. LEGO's way of setting prices for different markets is very complex (I believe that Jake has stated this before), and the price only partially depends on what the given market (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
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(...) What I was actually referring to was more along the lines of 200x sets arriving in stores in the US in November 200x-1 while to the rest of the world it is a 200x release date. [Out of curiosity: 1) is it now officially a 200x-1 set as it was (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
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(...) Well I have actually noticed that although new products may show up on NA S@H first, often they start shipping to Europe before NA, as was the case with the Maersk ship. Still doesn't explain the price discrepancies though. ROSCO (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
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(...) I was wondeing...how do LEGO work out their prices? By my calculation, 10152 is being sold at the following: $74.99 US is roughly $105 AUS £54.99 is roughly $140 Aus EURO 79,99 is roughly $136 AUS $144.95 AUS (About 30% higher outside North (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
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As we get closer to the Queen's Birthday weekend Brikwars (with a MUGS type meeting attatched for those who don't want to participate in Brikwars.) it seems a good time to work out what sort of forces, etc. will be participating. Therefore, as the (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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As it happened (quite by chance), I was passing by a KMart this morning 15 mins early for an appointment. Being close to the end of the financial year, my head lately has been full of sober and responsible thoughts, involving the taxation merits of (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Name: Troy Walker Gender: Male Year of Birth: 1972 Mental Age/Status of Inner Child: Lost in the 80's Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia LEGO/home page URL(s): (URL) Marital Status: Single Children: None Occupation: Student On Lugnet Since: (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) I had the same dream ! (...) You predicted such an event in my dream ! (...) A foodcourt is the logical place for the Salivation Army Reserve to be on manoeuvres, but I think they would have been better trawling the waste bins. Don't forget (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) Good to see the ancient brown clip-on triangle getting a creative workout ! Keep those entries coming, they don't have to be huge, the pulse beats on. (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Careful readers of .loc.au will note that a meeting of Sydney Lego fans was planned for last Sunday, but that the many significant details have so far gone unreported. This may have lead to the assumption that the gathering did not occur. But it (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | Re: my T.G.B.S.L.I.L.A entry , and Delurking to boot
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(...) Nicely done. Lots of great little details. I like the door to the captains quarters. Those sails look really good. As Wesley mentioned, seeing a merchant vessel is always a treat. Jason Spears | (URL) BrickCentral> | (URL) MichLUG> (20 years ago, 26-May-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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Grinspoon beltin' out Chemical Heart for T.G.B.S.L.I.L.A (drummer couldn't make it, he's got the flu). (URL) (20 years ago, 26-May-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Fellow Aussies, Was in local Kmart yesterday (Mount Ommaney in Brisbane) and they had all the new Harry Potter sets in. $500 to layby one of each (excluding the new train). Got home to find the phamphlet in letter box with 20% off toys. Will have to (...) (20 years ago, 26-May-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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Where: Kmart When: Starting 27/5/04 Finishing 2/6/04 What: 20% off all toys [that $99 technic front-end loader looks a little better now...] Benjamin Whytcross (20 years ago, 26-May-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: my T.G.B.S.L.I.L.A entry , and Delurking to boot
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It's a beautiful ship. I'm impressed. Not only is it an actual merchant ship (they tend to be too rare, since most ships are pirate or military), it's very, very pleasing to the eye. Details like the gold decoration on the sterncastle, the doors and (...) (20 years ago, 26-May-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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| | my T.G.B.S.L.I.L.A entry , and Delurking to boot
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Hi, I've been lurking for a very, very very long time (the pre Lugnet days of rtl&atl) although I have attended a (URL) meeting before (I brought the Formula 1 microscale model). This is the first of 2 models for T.G.B.S.L.I.L.A. The Freetrader (...) (20 years ago, 26-May-04, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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| | Entry into the T.G.B.S.L.I.L.A
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The Brisbane Lego Train Group would like to enter as a collective into this competition. 3rd prize entry - Most creative entry Is the display that was put together by the crew, for the Brisbane Train Show (URL) prise entry - Woomera section Is a (...) (20 years ago, 26-May-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: An extension to T.G.B.S.L.I.L.A Competition?
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(...) I don't approve, but I agree to the change of date. The competition now closes midnight 14 June 2004 AEST (or thereabouts). That's two weeks more, including a normal weekend and a long weekend. And it includes the Melbourne fest, so people (...) (20 years ago, 26-May-04, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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