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Re: Turaga to make a comeback to stores - Warning! Bionicle content
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lugnet.loc.au
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Date:
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Tue, 4 Sep 2001 07:31:11 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Deidre Rushton Brumby writes:
> In lugnet.loc.au, Martin Scragg writes:
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> > > Bit like the "chrome knights fiasco" Part 2.
> > This is probably why they only got a few in this time, they didn't want to
> > be stuck with them like the adventurers sets.
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> But did they get stuck with the Adventurers overall or was that an isolated
> store or two?
There were Adventurers long after the Chrome left.
But then the Adenturers were iffy value, whereas the chrome were great value
for the price.
> In Tas, the Chrome Castle and the Adventurers sold equally well, and fast,
> in all stores (so did the Technic duo packs). I did come across the odd
> leftover set from both Chrome and Adventurers up to several weeks later but
> that was in places that had previously sold out within days. To non-AFOLs
> the themes were equally popular.
The Technic went quicker than the Chrome, but were in fewer places.
Wheels sell !
> As for the mini Bionicles (Toa, Turaga all the same to me :)) they didn't
> even arrive until 3 weeks after the catalogue sale (at least in the stores I
> checked) and when they did arrive all gone in less than a week (can't say
> precisely how long, I've managed to avoid Bionicle fever). When I spotted
> them they can't have been on the shelf any longer than 3 days, and there was
> only Whenua* (black) and the tan one left.
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> It's good to see that Lego at my local Woolies (Purity and Roelf Vos have
> been renamed now) sells equally fast even when _I'm not_ buying in bulk :)
Good to see thet rid themselves of those names.
> (*When you are what?)
ready to find the mask,unleash the power and rive the regend (so my 4yo says)
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