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Re: FOTW - Road N rail hauler, Club car, Crocodile Loco
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Sat, 29 Apr 2000 11:13:08 GMT
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The dealer said that he used to own a toy store but had to close down.
They did have one or two other smaller sets, but i didn't really note them down
as my attention was elsewhere. But you know the standard range of crappy
plastic toys, but there were some other stuff too. He pointed out a wooden
Train set that he claimed collectors paid over $120 for him for.
Judging by the plastic bag he gave me, they're Importers and distributors of
toys from Hong Kong. The catalogues on the sets were bilingual in English and
<insert Asian Language>. I don't seem to remember lego catalogues that we got
in our sets ever being in any language other than English, so I'm guessing that
these sets were imported from overseas.
I asked him if he had any other Lego Items and he said he'd have a look at the
remainder of the stock he had. I'll check back next week to see if he's come up
with anything else good.
My gut feeling is that there is a stock of a whole lot of Older Lego being held
somewhere in Australia. In 1996 I was in "Clints Crazy Bargains" in Parramatta,
and they had a huge stack of 4551's for $50 and a stack of 12V Automated
Swithing Rails for the trains. A very unusual find. I chased up some
information as to how they got all these. Turns out that some buyer/distributor
must've got a delivery of them cheap off Lego Australia, and then sold them
onto Clints who then sell it in their stores.
Therefore there must be some other process going on about the way Lego
Australia get rid of excess older stock that we haven't really found out about.
It would be good to know where these items go. There was discussions at Legoz.2
about how we'd be willing to pay to take older Lego Off LA's hands than for
them to destroy them. Perhaps these buyer/distributors are applying the same
priniciple.
Thats one of my theories anyhow. Perhaps others may know a bit more.
In lugnet.loc.au, Peter White writes:
> In lugnet.loc.au, Santosh Bhat writes:
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > Just got back from Parklea Markets. Was on the mission to purchase some nuts
> > and dried apricots, wehn i was going past a trader selling toys.
> > Using my super-human vision, I was able to spot the Lego symbol.
> >
> > To cut it short.
> >
> > This is what picked up:
> > 4549 - Road 'N Rail Hauler
> > 4547 - Metroliner Club Car
> > 4551 - The Crocodile Locomotive
> >
> > Boxes were opened, but all bags sealed and all stickers/pieces were there.
> >
> > Yay :)
>
> Excellent find Santosh. I thought places like Parklea would be useless,
> especially for any trains. What sort of other goods did the guy carry,
> I mean in general, not just a Lego sense.
> I have a 4551, but I'm sure someone local will want it (at $80 too).
> Just as long as it doesn't find it's way across the Pacific ,as much as
> we love them :^)
>
> pete.w
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| (...) down (...) It's amazing what toys some toy stores will carry and what more what they won't. Some toy stores stock no Lego at all eg. Supertoys (Gosford) and others (usually so-called educational toystores with enigmatic names) defend their (...) (24 years ago, 29-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) Excellent find Santosh. I thought places like Parklea would be useless, especially for any trains. What sort of other goods did the guy carry, I mean in general, not just a Lego sense. I have a 4551, but I'm sure someone local will want it (at (...) (24 years ago, 29-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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