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Re: Fun LEGO purchase
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lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.no
Date: 
Sat, 24 Jan 2004 13:36:59 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Øyvind Steinnes wrote:

> And the fun thing was a hole bunch of bags with LEGO number 3258. I asked
> one of the staff about those bags and she told me they got a HUGE box filled
> with tousands of LEGO-pieces and had to fill that evenly into small platic
> bags. The bags kost 49.50 NOK and is about 200-220grams of diffrent types of
> pieces, non of the bags has indentical numbers of pieces or have the same
> type of bricks in them. The ZIP-lock bags is white with small clear round
> fields so you can se the contents of the bag easy.
> 
> I do not have a digital camera at this time, but will report later what type
> of bricks and colors that was in those bags. But what I can see from the
> outside there is a lots of difrent colors from pink, darkblue, brow, dark
> red, orange (in difrent grades), white, diffrent types of greys and others.
> The bricks is all types of bricks from minifig heads, wiggs, bodys and
> feets. There is normal 2x bricks in difrent sizes and numbers. There are
> wings, arches, slopes cones and even some technic plates in the bag I have
> open so far, and a lot more.
> 
> I bougt 4 of thise bags, I will maybe go back to that store next week to buy
> some more if I can see more good bricks in the other bags.
> 
> Has anybody else seen this type of bags before? If you have, what was the
> price on them? 49.50NOK = 5.75 Euro = 7.23 US $ (at todays rate)

I suspect these are the same bags that we saw at LEGOworld 2003; only there the
price was 5 EUR per bag, and we could sort the bricks ourselves. Very cool. The
only bad thing was the parts without match (ie, left wings without right wings),
but I still came back home with 4 or 5 bags :-)

I was told LEGO offered these for retail sellers in Europe, but don't know
details, sorry :-(


Pedro



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  Re: Fun LEGO purchase
 
(...) These boxes were most likely filled with production leftovers... quality is a mixed bag (I've had half a dozen bad 2*3 sloped light-grey so far) but there's a nice selection. I've so far "raided" about 12 stores and have discovered that (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.no)

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  Fun LEGO purchase
 
I was in my town today to search for some of the new 2004 or late 2003 LEGO-sets. Or just to see if I could be lucky and find anything on sale after the christmas rush. Found 2 boxes of 4107 (399NOK). I have one of these boxes from before and like (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jan-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.no)

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