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Re: Town without AFOL's
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lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.dk, lugnet.loc.se, lugnet.loc.no
Date: 
Tue, 20 May 2003 12:42:45 GMT
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Hey ;-)
"Arne Lykke Nielsen" wrote in message news:HELwtK.1LB7@lugnet.com...
> This shop has 1000's of old toywares (like lots of Playmobil and LEGO), • and
> nothing is newer than 1995. I've done some very nice buying there for the
> last couple of weeks (6080, 6384, Fabuland etc.), but still there are so
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Oh yes, a LOT of old toys, that´s for sure.......

> many old LEGO sets left on the shelves - not to the prices 25 years ago, • but
> only slightly updated (e.g. 6080 for 698 SKr = 70$, originally 59$ in
1984).
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*nopes* not any more, I didn´t see any yesterday (6080)..............

> As I have strained my financial means seriously now, I'm giving the • address
> to this gem to the LUGNET community, so other AFOL's can have their dreams
> come through.
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Thank you Arne, for sharing this with us.........and my bankaccount has seen
better days. *G*

> There is Classic space (e.g. 6951, 6952), classic town (e.g. 6395, 6384,
> 4021), train (4564), classic castle (e.g. 6080, 6011, 6059), pirates • (6273,
> 6276, 6285), basic boxes (e.g. 566, 577, 733), blacktron 1 complete,
> blacktron 2, space police 1, m:tron and lots of old Duplo
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*nopes* - not anymore ;-)) Me and my mate, took the rest Blacktron and the
only classic space left was 6991, and that went with us home too ;-))

> The owner is a little old man who only opens the shop when he feels like • it,
> mostly in the afternoons. Shopping there claims a lot of patience: first
> waiting for the shop to open (yesterday I sat at the churchyard across the
> street reading a book for a couple of hours until he opened), secondly to
> get to pay for your finds. His first priority is repairing bikes, then
> talking about the weather to his friends; servicing costumers are long • down
> the list.
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Ohhh yyyeees, Shopping takes _ALOT_ of patience......almost to much
IMHO......
And "customer service", are not words he know ;-(     He wan´t do anything
for you...

> And bring your own bags, unless you want your precious MISB sets to be put
> in recycled plastic or paper bags with traces of chain-oil from the bikes.
> And don't wear your finest white summerdress!
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Thanx for this tip ;-))  Very nice to know.........

> If any of you goes to this shop, please write here at LUGNET about it!
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*done*  ;-))

He told us that lately he has sold _alot_ of Lego. we left only a few
Technic sets, medium size, and a bunch of small sets. Didn´t see any
modelteam there ;-(   But i got a 8868 ;-)))  *awesome*

/Lars
"This message was transmitted on 100% recyclable electrons"



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  Re: Town without AFOL's
 
"Hector" <hector-nospam-@danbbs.dk> wrote in message news:HF6rBI.69x@lugnet.com... (...) xxx...xxx DOH! Sorry, wrong set number, the only classic space left was 6951 (not 6991) and that went with us home ;-) /Lars "This message was transmitted on (...) (23 years ago, 20-May-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.dk, lugnet.loc.se, lugnet.loc.no)

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  Town without AFOL's
 
I have found a town completely devoid of any AFOLs. Proof: set 383 being on the shelf of a toy store for 25 years without being bought!!! The town is Helsingborg in Sweden, the shop is a combined bicycle-and-toy-shop(at Södergatan/Bollbrogatan). (...) (23 years ago, 9-May-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.dk, lugnet.loc.se, lugnet.loc.no) ! 

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