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Reduced Price Lego & Duplo at Safways (UK) My local store had all its Lego and Duplo marked "reduced to clear". They had at least a third of all the prices. -- Scott A Edinburgh, Scotland. (URL) (26 years ago, 5-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: New Super Car (8448)
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About time we have got Lego before the US, after all i must made ton's of complaits to Lego UK + Denmark. Now they have listened to there closest costumers. I am now so happy Please reply on medwards@ukonline.co.uk Home of the UK Technic Club (...) (26 years ago, 5-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: 9v Train Layout @ Southern LEGOFest - 18th September
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(...) S'ok. Thanks for providing the names. As it happens it didn't waste any of my time - I just looked at the message, recognised a few numbers, but thought, I can't be bothered looking up the others. :) I think it is important to provide the (...) (26 years ago, 5-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: New Super Car (8448)
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(...) Pieces with studs would be nice. Or at least pieces with more than road-ends (i.e. none of the flex parts). (...) ? I received mine in the mail Monday morning. :) Other than availability issues, 8448 detail discussion would be (...) (26 years ago, 4-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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Hi there, I normally only post on rec.toys.lego but I thought I would this a go. Deep breath... Go! It is uncanny how close the new 8448 is to the old 8880 in terms of length, width, height, wheel position and size, seat position, etc. Even the (...) (26 years ago, 4-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: LEGO Shop Bluewater (LSB) - opening report
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Tony Priestman wrote in message ... (...) Oops! 8-) Jon. Jon D Hayward Chatham, Kent, Great Britain mailto:Jon-D-Hayward...stel.co.uk (URL) (26 years ago, 4-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: 8448 Super Car
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The 8448 has a slot to insert the new technic gear motor and the instructions and the end of the 2nd book show a stand which lifts the rear wheels so that the motor can drive them and you can shift through the gears, watch the wheels change speed (...) (26 years ago, 4-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: LEGO Shop Bluewater (LSB) - opening report
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In article <FFwtp9.Fu9@lugnet.com>, Jon D Hayward <Jon-D- Hayward@Chatham-Kent...tel.co.uk> writes (...) ! (26 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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I got to the shop just before its 1:00pm opening yesterday. An 8' tall Bat Lord was wandering around in the mall, while a number of shop assistants were enticing the young (and not so young) with LEGO bricks imprinted with "August 1999" - not (...) (26 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: 8448 Super Car
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In article <FFwnvD.61o@lugnet.com>, Huw Millington <hmillington@cix.co.uk> writes (...) That's half the fun gone, then. Surely Town Junior just make the sets so much easier to build, without having to find the bits and stick them together in the (...) (26 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: 8448 Super Car
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(...) I have built the chassis, in about 2-3 hours. The separately boxed sub-assemblies have slashed construction time dramatically - no more sifting though 100's of pieces for the one you are after. It has - rear-wheel drive only - front steering (...) (26 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: 8448 Super Car
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(...) I wouldn't say Technic Jr. - it just makes the set so much easier to build, without rooting through 1000's of pieces. (26 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: 8448 Super Car
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(...) I would be interested in some details about how the suspension is setup(front and rear?, drive mech to the wheels, and are those parts similiar to the 8880 super car) Thanks in advance and enjoy building! John (26 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: 8448 Super Car
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On Tue, 3 Aug 1999 11:40:58 GMT, Huw Millington uttered the following profundities... (...) Technic Jr has arrived! (...) Please! (26 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: New Technic @ Argos
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On Mon, 2 Aug 1999 10:32:36 GMT, Dave Ryder uttered the following profundities... (...) Mesa been a thinkin' Mesa gonna wait for the sales in March. Mesa disappointed with thesa sets. (26 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Billund trip report
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I took my wife and 2 kids out last Thursday. We flew from Gatwick directly to Billund, by Maersk Air scheduled flight. The flight was about 1hr 20 mins. Tickets averaged at just over 110GBP each for the 4 or us. Billund is a small airport, and seems (...) (26 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | 8448 Super Car
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I picked up an 8448 from Argos today! The box and instruction cover feature a new style Technic logo and artwork. The box is silver, and massive :-) The instructions are in 2 books - totalling 312 pages! The pieces are thankfully packaged in 8 (...) (26 years ago, 3-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: I'm off to Billund on Thursday
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Got back today... Had a great time. No new trains, sadly :-( I had heard that prices for food and general items were high in Denmark, but I didn't reckon on 100% more than ours! I'll post a fuller report ASAP... Huw Millington (...) (26 years ago, 2-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Ooops! - Was: New Technic at Argos
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Dear all, I know I have posted two essentially identical posts, but my newsreader at home was playing up and wouldn't send the item last night, so I sent a brief one from it from work this morning, then as soon as I fired this damn thing up tonight (...) (26 years ago, 2-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | No auction updates in non-auction groups (was: 1 day to go...)
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(...) Scott, DO NOT post auction updates in the lugnet.loc.uk newsgroup or the lugnet.storage -- the ONLY place for auction updates here is in market.auction. Please review the Terms of Use (URL) which you agreed to when you signed up to post here. (...) (26 years ago, 2-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.storage, lugnet.admin.general)
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