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Re: I have an idea... (regards the range of sets we get)
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Fri, 14 Apr 2000 18:08:07 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Paul Baulch writes:
> Oh, I don't know. I quite like the idea of travelling ~900km across
> Australia on a carefully planned route that visits a couple of dozen toy
> shops, I enjoy driving a lot and even if I only find one good set I'd
> probably think it was worth it. I could theoretically even look out for what
> people told me they wanted, and they could reimburse me for it when I
> arrived.
Our group in Sydney have been ravaged by the sales, last week we were only
meant to be looking at a pirate display and they had half-price on SW 99 at
the Target next to it.
> In any case it's a lot less boring than sitting around waiting for '98-'99
> sets to go on clearance.... ;-)
Now we have Grace Bros. and TRU 20% off !
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> Yeah, Ben and I actually met a couple of weeks ago, I arranged a Saturday
> morning run up into the country, he heard there was a shop might be selling
> Lego in Rushworth. We got there, no Lego in Rushworth whatsoever :-( We did
> both find a couple of sets we wanted later on when we drove to Seymour and
> back to Melbourne. In any case, we had a good old yarn about what we had,
> what we wanted, we even traded a few bricks. He was kind enough to trade me
> a red and a black Futuron minifig which completed my space 'fig collection.
Nothing like the motivation of a country drive. Since you like driving I'll
tell you about my rural trawls thru NSW and VIC. I did the north NSW coast
travelling back thru Armidale down the New England Hwy thru Tamworth and
Dubbo to Sydney. The highlight was a train from 1991 at Armidale.
I also did the NSW south coast and back thru Canberra (very little) to
Sydney, the highlight was the Night Lords Castle and a couple of the smallest
Pirate sets on the south coast, Ice Planet Base at Bateman's Bay and some
Blacktron Base Plates (!!!) at Yass.
Then there was the trip thru Vic. that went Albury/Wodonga , Benalla ,
Yarrawonga , Shepparton , Bendigo , Ballarat , Gisborne , Bacchus Marsh ,
Geelong , Colac , Portland , Mt.Gambier , Horsham and back to Sydney thru
Hay at night. I kept away from Melbourne because of the poor pickings in
Metro Sydney. There wasn't as much on this trip as I thought apart from a
monorail expansion set(I don't have a monorail though to expand from),
a Harris Scarfe at Geelong had a nest of 6036 and a few smaller '93 sets .
In Metro Sydney the big guys (Big W,Target,K-Mart,GB's and DJ's) really
control the market and there's only 4 Toyworlds, a few Toy Kingdoms(not as
good as the Vic.ones) and a few independent stores. Even World4kids was
absorbed by K-Mart except for two stand-alones.
> > Did you manage to get hold of a 7171 on clearance at K-Mart. If you want
> > one email me and I'll get one and mail it for $ 94.90 plus postage.
> > But you should be able to find one in Melbourne, they have been in various
> > K-M's here for a number of weeks.
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> It's puzzling, they _were_ here and there in Melbourne K-Marts, but then
> there was a space of about five days where I didn't go to K-Mart, the next
> thing I know is they're on discount - no, they've all gone!!! Just unlucky,
> I guess. Shouldn't complain, really, I've probably had a few more lucky
> finds than some. Comes from a _lot_ of hunting, a bit like yourself from the
> sound of it.
> In any case, I think I would like one, yes, but hold off for a couple of
> days because Kaz mentioned a place for me to look here in Melb.
No rush here,my local K-M got another 20 7171's in the other day !!!!!
> I'm a big fan of Toy Kingdom, they're the go. Their prices may not be much
> better than Toyworld but they do have a clearance centre or two, and
> generally the Lego range seems a bit better at Toy Kingdom. Sadly they've
> had to close a lot of their stores.
Toyworlds have the upper hand in rural NSW.
> Incidentally, if anyone sees 6580 land jets for <$20 I'd like to know.
I'll keep my eyes open, anything else.
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> I've seen a few around Melbourne, and I even found some Dragon Masters sets
> once (which nicely completed my castle theme collection). If I see any more
> Castle I'd probably inform people of it rather than buy it, unless I were to
> then forward it to someone. I'm a fan of the "take only what you really
> want" approach to Lego collecting.
Let me know of any '95 or earlier Castle.
Very ecologically sound last statement ;^)
Any out of state AFOL's are welcome at any Legoz event (we can probably
arrange a place to stay for visitors)
-pete.w. email to aquanaut@optusnet.com.au
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| Peter White wrote in message ... (...) Heh, tell me about it, I was only going to spend $95 on Lego today and I spent $180. Found two Exploriens bases cheap, being a space builder who likes domes I found it too hard to resist. (...) Hmm, as someone (...) (25 years ago, 16-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| Peter White wrote in message ... (...) of (...) and (...) Oh, I don't know. I quite like the idea of travelling ~900km across Australia on a carefully planned route that visits a couple of dozen toy shops, I enjoy driving a lot and even if I only (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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