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Re: Did I just see an 7191 Ultimate Collector Series X-Wing here in Brisbane?
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Mon, 10 Jul 2000 04:33:00 GMT
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I've seen that model and I am all but positive it is NOT the UCS X-wing. I
could be wrong but it looks nothing like the pictures floating 'round.
Incidentally Kerry, did you notice how DJ's actually passed on the GST savings.
Good for them as Myer passed on significantly less (from memory anyway).
Tim
Kerry Raymond wrote:
> I dragged my NLS around Queen Street, Brisbane on Sunday in pursuit of Lego.
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> Generally, there is nothing much to report. The Toyworld on Queen Street
> (not the one in the Myer Centre) has come good on its promise to
> significantly increase its Lego stocks, and had more than the one in the
> Myer Centre (which seems to have reduced its Lego area). However, both had
> the same specials which have been widely reported (Sith Infiltrator and a
> couple of large Adventurer sets). The Queen St Toyworld has Mindstorms
> (v1.5) and the Robotics Development System (the Scout) on shelf, which is
> the first time that I have seen any Toyworld with the robotics stuff. I saw
> the soccer sets in DJs (first time I'd seen them).
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> However, what really caught my eye was a large display model of a white
> X-Wing covered by a perspex dome in DJs. The X-Wing was pretty big, at
> least 60cms in all three dimensions. Apart from a Lego logo, there was no
> further information. I asked the staff member but he knew the Lego rep had
> brought it in last week and thought it was touring the stores but knew
> nothing more.
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> If it is a standard Lego set, it must be the 7191 Ultimate Collector X-Wing;
> nothing else could be big enough. But, having looked at the photo on LUGnet,
> I'm not 100% certain. The shape is very similar but the LUGnet photo does
> not look all white, and (apart from a tiny number of grey and black pieces),
> the set I saw was all white. It also had a silver half-golf-ball on top of
> it.
>
> Can anyone confirm or deny that what I've seen is an 7191 UCS X-Wing?
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> --
> Kerry Raymond
> kerry@dstc.edu.au
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