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Re: Soccer Lego sets are here! (Melbourne)
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Fri, 9 Jun 2000 16:51:41 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Paul Baulch writes:
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> Popped by Melbourne (city) TRU itching to spend some of my pay packet, and
> what do I see but Soccer sets being put on the shelves! I scanned a few
> items for prices, unfortunately I was in a hurry and they hadn't unpacked
> all of the sets yet. I grabbed anything that gave a good first impression.
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> 3404, 3407 Soccer buses - $18
> Okay value. Compares well to, say, Droid Fighter which is around the same
> price at TRU. Comes with a variety of male minifig heads and three colours
> of short minifig hair. Sadly the train windows don't have the train panes
> (but most of you probably knew that). Still, it's a nice Town-ish set (with
> NO chassis pieces! Yay!). I bought one red bus and one black bus.
Did they have the other buses ?
> 3402 Seats with Stadium Light- $9
> Nine dollars seems like great value for a good number of largish pieces
> (compare it to, say 6463). Has 2x4 rounded NON-FLUORO trans-yellow
> elements! When I built this I couldn't help but feel a wave of nostalgia,
> because (apart from a bit of white) it has the Classic Space colour scheme
> of grey, blue and trans-yellow. It also has a white 6x8 slope piece with NO
> PRINTING which I'd wanted for some time. I was so impressed with the set I
> bought four of it on the spot. I might even buy four more tomorrow.
Paul, are you building a replica of the Colonial Stadium ? ;^)
> 3409 Complete soccer oval - $115
> I felt that this was a bit pricey for a load of limited-purpose green
> pieces. Then again, I can see a use for all those white 2x6 steep slopes
> already, so I'll probably end up buying one, definitely if I see one for 20%
> or even 15% off. Obviously you can tell I'm not interested in playing the
> game :-)
LegOz 2000.5 - here we go !
pete.w
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| Peter White wrote in message ... (...) [...] (...) I've only seen three of the buses so far. They're in various Toy Kingdom stores today (Sat). I haven't seen the bus with white windows. The catalogues also show a couple of sets from the Trains (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| Popped by Melbourne (city) TRU itching to spend some of my pay packet, and what do I see but Soccer sets being put on the shelves! I scanned a few items for prices, unfortunately I was in a hurry and they hadn't unpacked all of the sets yet. I (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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