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Pete, I want to be the one with the BIG Glove doing the smacking. The lady from LA did say three, not two hundred. I asked if she said 2 or 3, and she replied 3. Make that a stick, or maybe an aluminium cricket bat. Mike (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.starwars)
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Thnks to an e-mail from Peter White, I now know where Aussie AFOL'er's hang out. I live in Tasmania, married with a four year old daughter. My husband says he is not an AFOL, but he is desperately awaiting the release of the Millenium Falcon in (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Customs have told me they use whatever is on the 'customs declaration' label attached to all international packages, with reference to the description. If things look funny (i.e. the description says "toys", the box is as big as a bar fridge (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Thanks for the link! According to a backofanenvelope calulation I did the other day a TB2 at minfig scale would be 1.7m long, 1.3m wide and 0.5m high. At that scale though getting the curves and so on right would be easy, it's just a matter of (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au.nsw.syd)
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(...) earlier (...) answers (...) I think colour would be a big problem with Thunderbird 2, as it was green (at least on my TV) and I don't see a lot of green Lego slopes (at least not in the sets I have). There are some nice Thunderbirds images (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au.nsw.syd)
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(...) ;^( ;^( ;^( ` ` ` Someone must have tried scamming at some stage. (...) thanks pete.w (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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I searched the Customs WWW site to find out if there is any difference between the taxes etc applicable to new vs used goods. Failing to find any information, I sent an e-mail to their contact address information@customs.gov.au and had an answer (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) quoted (...) buy (...) ). (...) a (...) What about 'used' or 'second-hand' Lego (another kettle of.....) A lot of volume can be saved if you discard boxes and superfluous things too. pete.w (25 years ago, 9-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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In lugnet.loc.au, Benjamin Whytcross writes: ... (...) Well, this is not wholly correct. Customs assess duty on everything, but they do not bother to collect if the duty is less than $50. Yes, I know it's almost the same thing but I was told by (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Actually, LEGO is produced all over. Denmark, Switzerland, and the US. Different pieces are built at different factories. If I am not mistaken, Switzerland deals especially with TECHNIC, the US with SYSTEM and MINDSTORMS, and Denmark with all (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Hey hey. Hope for us all :-) Regards Richard Still baldly going.... 1115 and failing to be closing (1110 5 June). Extract the digit now boys and girls :-) (25 years ago, 8-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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In lugnet.loc.au.nsw.syd, David Low writes worthy stuff in contribution to the developing tale of the Battle of Tank Stream. Cool. Thanks Dave, will add. I'll have the draft page up by the end of the weekend. Regards Richard Still baldly going.... (25 years ago, 8-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au.nsw.syd)
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Hi, we seem to spend a lot of time hammer Lego Australia for their good work *cough*, so I thought that I'd write and state a _good_ experience with LA. As most of you who attended 2000.3 saw, one of the pneumatic cylinders that pops open the doors (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) <snippage of the mighty battle> Excellent work Richard -- perhaps contributions to the text would be inspired by a draft page on the Studs site that has some of PeteC's pics as they come to hand. In the meantime, something to add near the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au.nsw.syd)
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(...) At least one or two of these are in Hobart's Toyworld, can't remember set number(s) off hand and didn't look that closely. As for the Catalog part II, I'd hazard a guess at September - but this is just a guess based on timing of (bulk) new (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Well, I still reckon that it wouldn't hurt to mention that: 'Wherever practical we try to purchase our lego in Australia. However, occasionally we branch out to get sets from overseas, generally for sets that are either produced in the US or (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Definitely the second letter, the first is just a "hey look at us , we're Lego fans, would you like to play with us?" type of letter. If they give good feedback then we can start giving them the juicy stuff. If they give us bad feedback, we give (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Thanks for backing up my memory there, Peter. I think what you got was the price for the X-WING [collectors edition] From memory, that was the only set THIS YEAR [PRE GST] to be over the $300 RRP [other than the train, possibly]. $359 sounds like (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) This can't be right. I think the person at LA must have swapped a two with a three somewhere along the line. When I range LA back in February I got a price list for all of the 2000 Star Wars range. The exchange rate has got worse, but see (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.starwars)
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Not wishing to seem like I appreciate the high costs...I think the reason that lego is much cheaper in the US than any othey country is...wait for it...They produce it there. This means no import duties, low transport costs, etc. Unfortunately, (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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