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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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(...) I agree it's a fine line but you have put your finger on the nub of the problem: a stamp is a receipt. If GST was charged on the service and not on the stamps, then buying a stamp would simply be a receipt fo advanced payment received by (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Today I recieved an email as part of the mailing list for www.lego.au.com which I will not post (due to legal risks). Essentially what it said is that the domain name is still owned by the site maintainers but will not be used as the top end (co. (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Maybe have the "Oz" below the brick, and covering half of it sort-of? Or have the "Oz" rotated 90 deg going down, remove the brick, and use a 1x1 brick profile (similar to brickshelf) as a backdrop? Dunno, just brainstorming here. ROSCO (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I seem to recall someone somewhere mentioned Spring (USA) ah yes, here it is (URL) seems to indicate fairly soon, but that's the US. No guarantee whether we'll get it the same time. ROSCO (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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The Mindstorms RIS still shows as 1.5, does this mean that 2.0 will not be available until later in the year? I see with trains, that a few of the older sets are making a comeback, but points seem to have disappeared. It says that you can get the (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Ooops! Must've been those back roads! I figured some might've spilt out, but most of them were there in the box, and I couldn't be bothered counting! Feel free to throw them at me, Paul. ROSCO (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I hope no-one wonders why independent toy stores are few and far between in Sydney. At least Toyworld Camden try and compete by selling Lego at 10% below RRP, very tempting for new releases, for those who can't wait for sales. I guess having 3 (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Hi, I was at Roselands yesterday and visited Toyworld and GB. Both had the new LOM and new Star Wars sets - GB was cheaper. The Technic C-3PO was $64.95 as Toyworld and $54.95 at GB. They also had the StormTrooper for the same price. Anthony. (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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From the land where lawn-mowing is a major recreational activity... Penrith Plaza (early Friday morning): Target:- no new catalogues, but all LoM sets were, bar the vacuum cleaner. The box images really do the new sets justice, much better than the (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I must get one of those dolphins. That baseplate is a relative of the chip & dip BP. Note: scary scorpion lurking under the table. pete.w (the original trans fan) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) It's a very nice start ! But I can't help wondering about copyright infringements with L-E-G-O quite discernible. Also they don't seem to like 'bricky' images in logos that may resemble Lego bricks. See the problems the VLC in Canada had (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Would these sets have been the Technic Stormtrooper and C3PO ? (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Love it. Richard Still baldly going... (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Strange changes I agree but the stamp colecting fraternity reckon its a real bonus, They now can collect twice the amount of stamps. The international stamps are also supposed to be a bit of a advertisement for Australia as they all show (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Deidre Lego arrived in Myer on Monday morning. There were no large technic sets when I was there, but later in the day I did phone and order the Power Puller as that had not arrived. There were no new sets in Target or Toyworld on Monday (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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From: "Kerry Raymond" <kerry@dstc.edu.au> (...) Ummm... Aren't these one and the same? The stamp is just a small bit of sticky paper, and not worth 45 cents. It's just a receipt stating that you've made payment for the service of delivering that (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Kerry, heya! it's crazy :P... that I agree with. I couldn't believe it myself when I knew. But myself and the post office both have used International and Domestic stamps on my parcels. They (most) don't really care too much at this point of time (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Maybe I am just the last one to find out about this, but GST has made some fundamental changes to postage stamps. Postage within Australia has a GST-component, but postage internationally is GST-exempt. For reasons that I assume have something to do (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Thanks Dave, I ordered a few of these today. Anyone interested in the Junk from this set? Martin (S) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) (Bear in mind while you read this that I am totally naive art-wise!) I like the design. Is it possible to have the "Z" sort of linked with "O"? Like move it up a bit? And I don't know if I like the green brick, but I dunno if any other colour (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au)
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