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Re: Where to Get LEGO in Germany?
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lugnet.loc.de, lugnet.general
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Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:54:57 GMT
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Selçuk Göre wrote:
> For the very good and wide selection of current line of sets, any
> department store could be nice. I tried Kaufhoff and Karlstad chain
> stores in two different cities, and all were nice for the current line
> of sets. They virtually have any single current set, but I think this is
> not the deal. The real places to be visited should be the smaller
> specialist toy stores, not the department stores. I had this idea since
> I saw Larry P.'s baggage list from his last Germany trip, so it could be
> appropriate to ask for this treasure shops to the experts (i.e., German
> AFOLs) in German local news group.
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> By the way, picking up service sets from their shelves is quite an
> experience, especially for me, the one from a country Lego service
> doesn't exist...:-)
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> Selçuk
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> Patricia Schempp wrote:
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> > My parents are going to Germany in two weeks to stay with a friend and I was
> > wondering where I should send them to get LEGO and if there were any special
> > Lego items available only in Germany that I should have them look for. They
> > are mostly going to be in the Hanover and Berlin areas but will be travelling
> > all over. Thanks!
> >
> > Patricia Schempp
The real "treasure shops" are the very small family owned toy stores that are
located in small towns and villages around Germany. Unfortunately these are
becoming scarcer with the people retiring or dying off. The ones that are still
left have been plundered of their "treasures" - i.e. old LEGO sets from the 60's
and 70's. Some even had stuff going back to the 50's. Just look at the auction
sales of old LEGO, most of them are from Germany, with a few from Belgium, Denmark,
Sweden, etc. European small toy store owners don't have SALES. They just let
things sit on the shelves for 20 years or more. Back in the 1980's I scavenged the
small toy stores of Bavaria from Coburg in the north to Garmish-Partenkirchen in
the south, and also checked out a lot of towns in Baden-Württenberg. Of course, I
didn't have to go more than 1 mile from where I was born (near Coburg) to find the
2 European Dealer Windows & Doors boxes with 2000 windows (the FOTC story that
everyone loves to hate). The adrenaline that went through my body (everytime I
came across an old Toy store that was "untouched" by LEGO scavengers) was
exhilarating.
Gary Istok
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