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Fabuland, Belville & 4561 Train
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lugnet.loc.au
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Fri, 12 Nov 1999 13:42:26 GMT
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Hi from Sydney,
The TRU 20% off Lego sale is running, so I was in TRU Chatswood today to
buy Belville sets - no other shops seem to stock these much here - some
Kmart/Grace Bros. carry the smaller sets at full RRP.
Sometime I'm going to blow some bandwidth & drivel about Belville &
Fabuland, and who designed what? - my daughter was initially a fan of
Paradisa, then Belville, then Fabuland. Looking at some of the boxes here
tonight (before they're consigned to the Christmas presents chest) the
Fabuland legacy shows through... 5805 has parts like the Fabuland vehicle
grille in white (originally yellow, appeared for a while at the stern of
6268 in red), the FB lamppost clock in white (used in the FB bus sets, then
grey), the 2x6x5 fancy arch (in original white ! from 3676 et alia) and the
other sets have the usual array of FB pots, tubs, chests & brooms ! 5804
even has a yellow soup ladle! Also the train lamp posts (as in 4554) appear
in pink :-) Ahem....
Also TRU Chatswood has a 4561 train set today - due for release Sept/Oct
down here but I hadn't noticed it earlier in the week. It scanned at $240
at their customer-pricing thingamajig (*including* the 20% discount) and the
box is kind of light considering it includes a loop of track, speed
regulator & 240V/9V adapter (which many 9V train lovers already have). It
was kind of hard to focus on the bricks & design after I saw the price, so I
just took the sack of Belville & paid & left. At home I see the TLG Service
catalog offers the same set for $340 (including postage) ...
Times like this I go into the 'junk' room and stroke our nearly-restored
#391 Renault. National program (radio) today featured an interview with a
superb human hoping to persuade the pollies to raise the unemployment
benefit from around $160 to around $180 (apologies to those affected, for my
lack of accuracy here) - seems a shame a plastic 9V train is out of reach of
most people. <sniff>
Geez, we waited most of the year to get access to a product the rest of the
world had for months at a fraction of the price? I love my WWW connection
:-)
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