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Re: Lego at Sydney Airport
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Date: 
Thu, 1 Feb 2001 23:14:57 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Richie Dulin writes:
Apologies if this may be old news, but there is a Lego vending
machine at the Qantas Domestic Terminal (tucked into a corner
between Burger King and the Bar).

Cool, innit? Brisbane has one too!

The machine has about ten sets, ranging from Johnny Thunder and
baby T-Rex for $5 to the Rock Raiders Rapid Rider for $13. Sets
are picked up and dropped into a collection slot by a robot (non
Lego) arm, although I was too cheap to actually see this in action.

This folder has a few pics, including some of the arm in action.

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=1338

You should recognise the bloke standing by the machine in the first pic,
it's Mark "Harro" Harrison, my host when I was in Brisbane.

++Lar



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(...) I'm just back in Sydney from checking out the Brisbane airport vending machine (there were other reasons to go to Brisbane as well). The sets are 50c- to $1 more expensive in the Brisbane machine. Does it follow that they'll be cheaper in (...) (24 years ago, 15-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

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  Lego at Sydney Airport
 
Apologies if this may be old news, but there is a Lego vending machine at the Qantas Domestic Terminal (tucked into a corner between Burger King and the Bar). The machine has about ten sets, ranging from Johnny Thunder and baby T-Rex for $5 to the (...) (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.au)

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