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Re: Australian Roll Call
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Tue, 23 May 2000 11:10:27 GMT
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Hi Dierdre :-)
Nice to meet you :-)
The more women here the better I think, sometimes I do feel a little
outnumbered. Though all the guys here are great.
I am aiming to get into technic soon, as I really want the RIS (maybe for
xmas, I have started hinting already) you sound like you are pretty competant
with it, what is the difference between 1 and 1:5 do you know?
The Duplo sets that you mentioned I could be interested in, though prior to
reading your post I had promised myself that I wouldn't buy any more (well
except for the new toolo, and the passenger train and maybe a couple of
tunnels.....) The large zoo set #2669 and the smaller zoo set #2668 could
tempt me though, were either of the sets you saw these ones and if so would
you mind emailing me with the store name?
My son is hollering loudly from the bath so I have to fly, very glad that you
have delurked :-)
"Talk" to you soon,
Rachel
In lugnet.loc.au, Deidre Rushton Brumby writes:
> In lugnet.loc.au, Benjamin Whytcross writes:
> > Deidre,
> >
> > I believe there's at least one other tas collector. I've forgotten the
> > details
>
> Hi,
>
> You're possibly referring to Frances/Francis Schroter/Schroeter who
> was posting in late 98. I tried to contact her/him/it on email at the
> time and never received a response, no longer seems to be active.
> I know one other local collector (mainly Technic), I pointed him in the
> direction of lugnet several weeks ago, he's been here at least once,
> I don't know if he's quietly lurking or not.
>
> I've put out a hook in loc.au.tas.hob let's see if I catch any fish...
>
> > Also, when i was in Tas last [about 3 years or more ago <having read
> > everything I typed, more seems to be the main word here>], there were a
> > couple of good shops with old stock.
>
> About 3 years ago was the best time to be looking for old stock in Tassie.
> At the time I was concentrating on Duplo and was blissfully unaware of the
> Lego stock life/collector following.
>
> One of these was a bike shop and toy
> > store in New Norfolk [near you]<It was across the road from the commonwealth
> > bank>.
>
> I'm not aware of this store, it probably no longer exists but I will
> see what I can find out. Most smaller toy stores in the Hobart region
> have either completely closed down in the last couple of years or no
> longer stock Lego.
>
> The other store was in the
> > north west corner, and was also a bike shop/toy store.
>
> There are two possibilities for this one. It is either the Burnie Toyworld
> (which has a bike store adjoined) or the Wynyard Sports & Toy Kingdom.
> If it is the Burnie store, (most likely) they _did_ have heaps of old stock
> around 2-3 years ago (which I failed to take full advantage of at the time,
> see above). I was on the NW coast the weekend before last and did the
> Burnie Lego hunt quite thoroughly, I'm sorry to say the only old
> stock they still have is 2 or 3 Duplo zoo related sets (if anyone wants
> details on these email me but I'm not in a position to go and get them...)
>
> If it was the Wynyard store I've only just found out that it exists
> (10 days too late). You could try phoning them, in my experience smaller
> stores are quite willing to help if they can (but I'd ask if they had Lego
> in a particular theme rather than quoting set numbers upfront - this isn't
> likely to get you far, I'm not quite sure why some toy-sellers have trouble
> with the concept!)
>
> There are a few other possibilities for old Lego stock in Tas but I wouldn't
> hold out any great hope, I've done Hobart, Launceston and Burnie thoroughly
> in recent times without luck. I'll get back to you all on the others
> sometime soon.
>
> Deidre
> drb@tasmail.com
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| In lugnet.loc.au, Rachel Kingston writes: Thanks for the welcome (and everyone else too!) (...) I think you've got me confused with Kerry here. I'm interested in getting into Technic and Mindstorms but haven't done so yet (it's that single salary (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| "Rachel Kingston" <kingston@spirit.com.au> wrote in message news:Fv0F1F.F4H@lugnet.com... (...) competant (...) The 1.5 set has a few cool technic parts that 1 hasn't, and is minus a couple of very ordinary parts. It's also got an upgraded (...) (24 years ago, 24-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| (...) Hi, You're possibly referring to Frances/Francis Schroter/Schroeter who was posting in late 98. I tried to contact her/him/it on email at the time and never received a response, no longer seems to be active. I know one other local collector (...) (24 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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