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"Allister McLaren" <allistermclaren@bigpond.com> wrote in message news:H3qzE7.HJo@lugnet.com... (...) His ship is okay, but if you put some effort in I'm sure you could make a better one... -- Cheers, Paul LUGNET member 164 (URL) (22 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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BSB now at LS@H, pre-order for A$149.95, delivering from October 31. Is that cheap enough Richie ? (22 years ago, 9-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Yes :-). It's actually a bit cheaper than I expected... but comparing it to the street price of the Red Beard Runner (c$100), it seems about right. (3 RBRs = 2 BSBs). Cheers Richie (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) 16.7c per part, by my reckoning. That ain't bad at all, considering five of those parts are hull pieces... At last, the chance to discard the humiliating title as only BUG not to own a BSB! And I have the gall to call myself a pirate fan... If (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) You weren't the only one ;). Some of us didn't have money back in 1989. In fact some of us were only six that year. -Stephen (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) That is an absolutely beautiful price in my opinion. I was expecting to have to pay a good $250 for it. As soon as I have the money, I'm getting that one, and the ISD. -Stephen (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) And others were somewhat older and had stopped playing with Lego several years previously, and didn't even know it existed until 13 years later. Fortunately I found most of the parts (and all of the specialist parts) for one in a second hand (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I reckon $250 would have been overpriced (considering a $100 to $110 RBR as an alternative). The BSB is very nice, but (slight pause whilst I don my flame proof suit) it's not twice as good as a RBR. These reissues are indeed good value... (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I remember seeing one in a shop during my dark ages. I remember thinking how bad it was that LEGO had used all those specialised parts rather than 'proper' bricks. And the minifigs had faces other than smileys! Ahhh, how little I knew then... (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Indeed ! If that's what development costs, Lego should forget releasing new sets, just cycle through old ones. No nasty new parts to try and think up uses for ;^) (...) KLC was available for less for certain periods. (...) ...plus postage, (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Haha. Yeah, I was that soldier. I remember looking at the Lego shelves during the late eighties and nineties and thinking much the same thing. Maybe I was just trying to justify my lack of interest. Now I'm actually building with them again (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Would anyone be offended if I made a comment like 'just like voting for the National Party' or 'just like living in New Zealand' here? Yes? Good thing I didn't make such a comment then ;-). (...) But even at half price, it wasn't *great* (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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In lugnet.loc.au, Allister McLaren writes: <snip> (...) ...although the Explorien cockpit/wing comes close! (NB: Port Block has some excellent space rowboats. See (URL) ). Cheers Richie (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I remember the late 80s was right about when I got into lego. I always loved lego, particularly space (I was overjoyed when they released the visors on the space dude's helmets). When the pirates series was release I just about had a spaz (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Heh, I loved the big explorien mothership. And I even found a very aesthetically pleasing way of using the cockpits - as wings. My final creation before my dark ages was an amalgamation of all my space lego building ability. I stole the dual (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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<snip> (...) </snip> I got KLC for $99 at Kmart, coz I thought it was a beaut of a set for that price with 524pcs. I was lucky coz within a week it went up the the price of $195 which is too expensive for my taste, and not having the money to afford (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I had it pegged at about $300, personally. Don't know where I got that one from. Now, do I get the RBR (Rebel Blockade Runner, I've already got the other RBR) or the BSB and the Black Falcon's Fortress at the end of the year? Decisions, (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Well, since the RBR is going out of production at the end of the year, I'd recommend getting that. You've probably got another two years to get the BSB and the Fortress. Well, that's my line of thought anyway :). I used to want the RBR until I (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Well...A search the library of useless information shows the following info: The "Dark Shark" [what most people mistakenly refer to as the "Black Seas Barracuda"]: 1989: released, unsure of price 1990: $199.95 1991: $239.95 1992: $239.95 (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) By RBR, do you mean the re-release of "The Maurauder" [6289, released in 1996]? And yes, the ISD IS nice :) [just wish I had a LEGO budget :) ] Benjamin Whytcross (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) See, I did not know that. Thanks for that little nugget of information. (...) The ISD's still a bit too pricey for me at the moment. Hopefully it'll be sticking around until that isn't the case, though! (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Or, worse still, hockey... (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Um, if you're asking me, I meant the Rebel Blockade Runner, and I think Stephen was referring to the same set. Although I won't presume to answer for him. Matt W. (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Agreed...the mini technic sets look OK, too...as do the new creator sets :) Benjamin Whytcross (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) The rerelease is definitely as "Black Seas Barracuda", even in Australia :-) (...) Again, the original US name is right for the rerelease. (...) Maybe... I wonder if our originals were direct translations from the Danish, and they lost a bit (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) And rereleased as 'Pirate Battleship' by LEGO Australia, IIRC. (If only they'd concentrated on getting the on-box picture right, rather than the name, it might have been a faster seller...) Cheers Richie Quester for various things at reduced (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Just out of curiousity, how do you know what the *original* names are? Or, how do you know that the "seppo" (as you so charmingly call it) names *aren't* the original names? I'd argue that many times, they are... for example all the Star (...) (22 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Incorrectly named because the set is a loco and not a train? True, but a far more glaring error is the Skull's Eye Schooner! And of course, the Black Seas Barracuda (or Dark Shark, for that matter) is not a fish either ;-) Cheers Richie (...) (22 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Ya, but I was using it an example of a set that has a name that's American and that it would be hard to argue that it should have any other name whatever. (...) Sure... I agree. Not my point though, which is this: What makes Dark Shark the (...) (22 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Ah, but what *you* see on sale and what *we* see on sale are two very different things! ROSCO (22 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) "on sale" in this context means "available for sale in the stores" not "discounted heavily". The point here is, why ask for a 2000 set to be reissued? It was in stores not that long ago at all. It doesn't make any sense to me when there are (...) (22 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Which is the context I assumed in the post... (...) Well on that point I probably agree, however I think Ben might've meant "show up at retail somewhere again", as flash speeders have been pretty thin on the ground here for a while. ROSCO (22 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I was commented on why/how it was incorrectly named... not about where it came from. (...) I don't know. That wasn't my point though, which is on this: on the basis that the Santa Fe Super Chief is incorrectly named, so are the Skull's Eye (...) (22 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) An Australian sense of humour, I suspect. Although the smiley should have been a give away. (...) Same reason I can sign off a post with 'Quester for a 40% off Imperial Star Destroyer'. Sure, it's not actually going to happen*, but it would be (...) (22 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Well sure. I agree! But, see, I'm not arguing with *you*!!! I'm disputing the assertion that BSB is the "wrong" name but Dark Shark is the "right" name which was made upthread. I see no prima facie basis for that assertion, and was asking for (...) (22 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Cool. (...) Good. (...) Any 6285 distributed by LEGO Australia would be correctly called a 'Dark Shark'. It would therefore be the original name *in Australia*. Private imports may well be BSBs, and the rerelease is definitely a BSB. But of (...) (22 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I saw a few in the Horsham Toyworld a few months back, but not on sale at all, just regular shelf price. But I haven't been in there for some time, but they may still be there, I'll / have someone else, have to check, for them Wouldn't mind (...) (22 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) own (...) I don't have a BSB either. I was in my Dark Ages at the time. Kerry (22 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Big Sonnofa Brig? ROSCO (22 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I got a Millenium Falcon with 20% off when they were first released so it is possible Travis (22 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Talk to a BUG - there was a toyworld up there somewhere that had em for around $4 in june. ROSCO (22 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Correct. The conversation wouldn't have made sense otherwise. -Stephen (22 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) OK, now you're making the assertion too, and just as unsupportedly. Granted that LEGO originally released this set with multiple names in english speaking countries... they apparently have now decided to use just one. What makes your statement (...) (22 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I was down at the Toyworld Suerstore in Springwood (Brisbane) about 4 weeks ago and they still had cases and cases of them, and I think the Myer centre Toyworld might even still have some. Still $3.99. A bargain. mmm, wouldn't mind a few more (...) (22 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I'm with Larry on this. While that Santa Fe Super Chief is based on a real world object, Lego are just tagging Lego creations with a hopefully marketable identifier. The 6285 I possess is a USA edition and has the name Black Seas Barracuda on (...) (22 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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"pete white" <aquanaut@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message news:H3tExp.LLu@lugnet.com... (...) *say* (...) what (...) Well, that would be more appropriate than everyone having to learn (and converse in) American.... after all, it's a Danish product. (...) (22 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) No, it's a universal product made by a Danish multinational which, for the most part, uses English as their internal working language. (not American, mind you, but English... your prejudice is showing through) Most multinationals these days (...) (22 years ago, 11-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Because I have a catalog, distributed by LEGO Australia. Calling it a Dark Shark. (...) Absolutely. And they called it 'Dark Shark' in Australia. (...) I'm not whinging about it! Just pointing out that in Australia, the correct name - as (...) (22 years ago, 12-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Richie, I think this will be my last response to you. If Ben chooses to respond I will respond to that, but I am now starting to wonder if you're deliberately misinterpreting what I am saying, for whatever reason. Let's go back to what Ben said, (...) (22 years ago, 12-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I would have to debate that one...most of the "English" used is American as shown by their mis-spelling of several words [colour being a prime example.] Benjamin Whytcross (22 years ago, 12-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Yep, you got that one right...I haven't seen one in a store for several months...let alone seeing one on sale. [In fact, I think the last time I saw one was about Feb this year ! ] Either LA didn't order many in or there was a small production (...) (22 years ago, 12-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Well, I THINK Broadmeadows toy-kingdom has them at $4.99 [from memory]...though if you don't need more than a half dozen or so, I have spare white epaulets here [and possibly yellow, red, brown and blue.] That said, another few Barons would (...) (22 years ago, 12-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) And note that I almost entirely post in .loc.au and that this was the forum used, and the message was intended for an Aussie audience. After all, I COULD have posted in .general if I was arguing with the rest of the world. [As a side note, do (...) (22 years ago, 12-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) well, it's not so much need as it is want, but hey, see what comes. (...) the new 2003 lineup contains a few adventures sets so hopefully there will be a few more small polybag size sets coming out (...) please fell free to count Xavier Prime (...) (22 years ago, 12-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Excluding catalogs of course, which *do* have set names, and would thus require extra expense in (at least) Aus as well... ROSCO (22 years ago, 12-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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Just confirming that Toyworld in the Myer centre (Brisbane) does indeed have the Island Racers in large quantities for $3.99. Just went and picked up a few. How many do you want? Allister. (...) (22 years ago, 14-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) gee, decisions, decisions. 6 or 7 would be good. yes, 7, 7 works well with me ;-) please drop me a line at trav@centercom.com.au to discuss payment methods I guess, unless you are just being generous! When I rule the globe all Australians will (...) (22 years ago, 14-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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<respectfully snipped> (...) </end respectfully snipped> I have totally different catalogues, I did collect them while living in Queensland. But the most interesting thing is that some of them are printed in Germany. Unfortunely I don't have the (...) (22 years ago, 14-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I have a catalogue which spells 6286 "The Black Scull". (22 years ago, 14-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Noted. However qualification still would have been helpful. Saying "most people", without qualification, even in an Australia specific forum, is hopelessly Australia centric. (...) You're preaching to the choir, I've always agreed with you and (...) (22 years ago, 14-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Yep. That's the one with paired oars ;-) Cheers Richie (22 years ago, 14-Oct-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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