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(...) I was at KMart tonight looking for a bargain, and on the price tags I read Chip-n-Go Challenge, after a quick double take it turned out to be 6713 Grip-n-Go Challenge. All this Chip-n-Dip stuff must have had a subliminal effect! Martin (S) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Would our children be tan or multigrain ? (Lucky we're both happily married). Going off on a tangent for the sake of a joke. See this thread, (URL) $20, may be FOTW pete.w (in his artificially cool environment) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Mr Peter White bread, this is Mel Brown bread reporting... do you know where abouts the Coko postings are? Sorry my numb brain probably passed them all... Yeah the plastic is garbage. The sets are nice, except there are a few pieces missing... oh (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I think I read somewhere on Lugnet, that Coko got stopped legally by Lego. Funnily enough after I posted, I was sorting an auction lot, and would you believe it, one Coko in two Lego sets. The plastic does have that cheap plastic feel. I just (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Hahaha Peter :P Well lucky I don't fret :) (I have a sense of humour so never take me too seriously) Actually there was a 7710/8853/6877 in there with the instructions still in good nick. I just couldn't believe how much Coko was similar to lego, (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Coke is the real thing, Coko is not. Whenever you buy bulk lots, there will always be clones and tiny parts from non-construction toys. Bit like a lucky dip, as long as you got a good deal, don't fret too much. Search off-topic.clone for Coko, (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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I just came back from some ladies place who I bumped into at target yesterday and I bought some Lego and she was telling me she had some. So I went around and bought some, but to my disgust there were some 'coko' Lego type garbage in there, VERY (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Well either I am late or I just work too hard. I finally found a lego catalog up here in Brisbane in some funny looking 'wanna-be' box. The Dogalog :P, is quite thick I say! My husband went ga-ga over a few things like the Software, and considering (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Hi Jane, good to see you back and posting. Once you have a fest, there's no turning back, our first meeting had four. (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au.sa.ade, lugnet.loc.au)
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Oops! Sorry - good memory huh? AdeLugs - I like it. Five is a good number to do something good with. (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au.sa.ade, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Ahh! so that's what Birkenhead Point was! I have a Fabuland keyring with it on the back... now I understand cheers sue ann (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Anything less than four would destroy my planned symmetrical structure. I'd say keep pestering Paul, I'm sure he will tire of finding innovative ways to use it. One went on ebay for over US$20 ! Maybe we will see them in the dining accessory (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) It looks small for Duplo scale, but the correct size for minifig scale. Those carrots look minifig size. pete.w (longing to live in his traditional homelands) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) LoL - speaking of the chip and dip. Do you have a spare one I can buy off you, Pete? I have the perfect use for one... cheers sue ann (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Birkenhead Point was the place. It was once a tyre factory, set up when the world was a place where smelly factories sat on riverfront properties. It was developed into a shopping complex in the late seventies/early eighties. It has been (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Meanwhile in the shopping mecca of chatswood, Tar-zhay has <consonant indicating "not much at" deleted>-ay, unless you want slizers or the largest arctic set, while GBs seemed to have almost all of the new LoM, Star Wars and DUPLO at quite (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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It was truly an impressive place. When you think of how the move now is for businesses to have super-stores rather than chains of little stores everywhere, this took the cake. It was wall to wall lego, not just boxes of stock mind you. There was (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Well, I thought they said a year ago, but they are elderly rellies, so maybe their grasp of time isn't the best. Or maybe I just misunderstood them. They clearly believed it still existed because they were exhorting me to go along there. Even (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Lego used to have their office and a major display/store at Drummoyne. Right next to the Iron Cove bridge by the bay. However I'm a bit concerned they said it was only a year ago. I remember it closing down when I used to have to beg parents to buy (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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When visiting rellies in Sydney last week, one of them told me that there was a fabulous store in Drummoyne [spelling?] which sold only Lego. They claimed to have visited this store about a year or so ago, where there were huge permanent displays (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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