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Re: Alpha team OK
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lugnet.loc.au
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Sat, 14 Apr 2001 13:01:36 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Richard Parsons writes:
> Evening all,
>
> Saw the Alpha team and Racers yesterday at Moore Park TRU, bought the Bomb
> Squad (http://shop.lego.com/ProductInfo.asp?product_number=6775 ~$54) and a
> few of the racers ($4.39 ea).
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> The racers aren't bad fun for the price. My boys and I have been having a
> fine time. Not really a building toy thingie, but fun anyway.
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> The Alpha team stuff is pretty cool. Rather liked the look of most of the
> models. Bought the bomb squad chiefly for the parts (wheels, click hinge
> vehicle supports, shock absorber bits, and of course two - count them - two
> sprung slug throwers). Cool figs (painted legs too). Definitely an edge
> about these models. Kind of ResQ but tear off you head and peer into your
> neck. I didn't see the biggest model (Ogel's Base), but I did see in the
> comic some skull faced henchmen type dudes - I guess you get two of these
> guys in the that set - they look fantastic :-)
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> Not bad at all. I haven't been this impressed since I saw the first release
> of adventurers a few years ago.
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> There really is nothing like the sense of wonderment found in walking into a
> toy shop and discovering new and worthy Lego.
>
> Richard
> Still baldly going...
Yep, Alpha team looks good...pity that when I went into myers in Melbourne
thursday, they had none of it, and weren't expecting another delivery for a
week or so. Yet Geelong had the 6772. [on a side note...according to their
computers, Adelaide was the ONLY store that had 6773 today...and the
Brik-toria barracks need a couple...]
Benjamin Whytcross
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| (...) Mmmmm, 6772, 2 x 3x3x6 black engines, and 2 of those 6x1x1 sloped technic pieces with the 3 technic holes - just the thing for helping turn technic slug throwers into medieval(ish) cannon. Richard II's Army of the Restoration has never had it (...) (25 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| Evening all, Saw the Alpha team and Racers yesterday at Moore Park TRU, bought the Bomb Squad ((URL) ~$54) and a few of the racers ($4.39 ea). The racers aren't bad fun for the price. My boys and I have been having a fine time. Not really a building (...) (25 years ago, 13-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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