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(...) here. Yes, at TRU at Garden City Shopping Centre (Mt Gravatt, Brisbane). (...) Yes, judging solely from the box pictures, I would say that Megabloks are using fewer specialised pieces than an equivalent Lego set. There seems to be a high (...) (25 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) In cats, a friend of mine refers to it as the Musclecar Position. In cars, particularly the American Musclecar variety, it's called the Cat In H-[welcome to family programming] :) KevinM (25 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Interesting it should strike you just so. Remembering that for me these little fellows cried out for Port Block to have a firing range, it always struck me as the 'ten points for bullseye' pose ;-) Richard Still baldly going.... (25 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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I have spotted the 2870 black cat in the 'place thermometer here' pose in two other sets while browsing the set guide. One is 2872 - Witch's Fireplace (someone may have mentioned that). The other is 2858 - Girl with Two Cats (of course in Belville (...) (25 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Shopping in numbers greater than one is a risk to the budget. (...) Was the aircraft carrier in TRU ? I have been waiting for it's release here. (...) They also have models of a speedboat and a race car and a monster truck. They definitely (...) (25 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) to (...) More true confessions. I too went Lego shopping on Saturday with Mel. We visited about 10 stores but I found nothing to seriously take my fancy (i.e. large sets). OK, I bought about 8 sets but they were mostly tiddlers. BTW, shopping (...) (25 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Yep, its 20% off here in perth (city store anyway) also. Pity that I had just spent heaps on red alert 2... (25 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) This sounds good to me :-) Actually, better than you could imagine. STUDfest V (and I like the nomenclature James :-) saw me purchase my first Paradisa sets, and my first Blockmen set (of which I have subsequently bought three more). Last (...) (25 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Grace Bros are having 20% off Lego, so I assume the same applies for Myers in cities other than Sydney. I bought some more tracks for my trains at Under $22 a box, not bad value. Cheers Santosh (25 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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"Jamie Obrien" <jamien@interworx.com.au> wrote in message news:2nfhvsg90ecbups...4ax.com... (...) What role does this person have? Kerry (25 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au)
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(...) I thought Tim's was better. However, the really way-cool Star Wars items that grabs me at the moment is the 9754 Darkside Developer Kit. Check out the movie version at: (URL) (25 years ago, 30-Oct-00, to lugnet.org.au, lugnet.loc.au)
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I have seen this set all over perth, even kmart and target and bigw have them. (25 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.loc.nz, lugnet.loc.au)
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The Warehouse (NZ) have the Roborider set 8516 "The Boss" available as an exclusive item. Price is $39.95 NZD. They also have the Star Wars bucket on special (again) this week at $39.95 NZD. Grahame (25 years ago, 28-Oct-00, to lugnet.loc.nz, lugnet.loc.au)
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Hi all. Just wanted to see if anyone has ever heard of building blocks called "The Little Architect"? They're not really Lego clones, as they have a quite different method of sticking together, but I thought I'd ask here anyway. They have a display (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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Hi, all. Just been to Franks Toys in Mount Waverley (Vic), and they have a few new things I havent seen before. They have a few new Arctic sets, one was about $110, the other about $60, and a few smaller ones. (I didnt have anything to write down (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.loc.au.vic.mel)
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(...) What? There's somewhere in the world where Lego is more expensive than Australia? 8?) ROSCO (25 years ago, 28-Oct-00, to lugnet.org.au, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Yes. Someone that works for an Australian firm sent me a note trying to find people that might be able to help out with a Lego related project they had in mind for a convention they are attending in Melbourne. I replied that I was from the US (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.org.au, lugnet.loc.au)
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I though, it's been a while since we've had a post number comparison in the loc groups, so I took a look. The raw data 1. USA 7318 2. Italy 5523 3. UK 5050 4. Australia 3944 5. Canada 1215 However one can mess around with these figures using (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Larry, You've lost me a bit with this message, But I'm thinking that someone in Aus. has contacted you about getting more people from Aus to organise something? If this is wrong (then ignore the rest of this message). I'm sure we'd be interested if (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.org.au, lugnet.loc.au)
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| | if finding city was a FOTM
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then my latest find must be a find of the year. Heres the first part: I got all of this for 17:50 from kiddywink toys in balcatta, perth (they sell second hand lego sets and parts) 8 of the old technic connectors that could be used to make different (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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