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Re: Brisbane a Lego wasteland?
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lugnet.loc.au
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Tue, 16 Jan 2007 02:31:14 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Kerry Raymond wrote:
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I ventured into Indooroopilly Shoppingtown in search of Lego for a child’s
birthday. Where is it? Just about everywhere the shelves were bare or had
only a few items not suitable for the child in question!
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Mmmm. It has been depressing cruising the aisles since just before Christmas.
In despair I picked up a Sail Barge for holiday fun, and ended up in Toowoomba
to find it.
There was tell that Lego had production problems in the lead up to Christmas,
and this will presumeably start coming good. The majors reducing the floorspace
for toys after Christmas (having ramped it in October/November) isn’t helping
either.
In the meantime, there is silver lining - perhaps not for your target audience
Kerry, but certainly for me :-)
The first release of the 2007 Star Wars sets are in Kmart (Towong,
Indooroopilly, and Garden City at least). The Y wing has always been a personal
fave, but the new one is brilliant. The
troop shuttle is not at all bad, (certainly a
worthy subject for a Port Block Yards refit - watch this space), and the
Clonetrooper battle pack is an army in a box
(alright, several boxes). It seems to have quite a while since I bought a set
at retail and now I have gone and bought several!
And the Sail Barge turned out to be a welcome surprise too. Its not bad out of
the box, it makes for a fun assault
barge, and its perfect BrikWars terrain. I like it.
But where oh where is my Tantive IV Alliance Trooper battle pack? You know,
start of Ep 4, heavily armed Stormtroopers in battle armour take the Tantive IV
corridor by exploding smoke filled corridor, against a few squads of lightly
armed, unarmoured dudes with big
white woks on their heads, no hope, and a surplus of pluck. Where are the wok
headed dudes? Sure I probably can’t afford any more sets now for a while, but
it seems a huge and sorry gap in the product range. Does no-one remember their
pointless sacrifice at the altar of seeting the scene?
And its probably just as well that the technic crawler crane is not available in stores and seems to have disappeared from
Moore Educational.
Richard
Still baldly going...
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