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Re: LLW/LSB report
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Date: 
Sat, 30 Dec 2000 22:02:02 GMT
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Huw Millington wrote:

[snip]


The Creation Centre/Racers ride is at last open. It's not too exciting to be
honest. There's an absolutely massive mock-up of a Virgin 747 cockpit on the
ground floor, and a shop dedicated to 'racers' merchanside. On the first
floor there is a small model making shop, in which someone was making a
mosaic of a painting. You can but peer through the glass into this area, so
there isn't much to see.

We tried the Racers ride just before Christmas and I have to say I was
sigularly unimpressed. The cars were unresponsive and are obviously set up for
children with no adjustment for taller people :-( Thankfully we didn't have to
queue otherwise I'd have been very unhappy.

[snip]

We finished there early so, disappointed with the lack of 2001 stuff, I
went
home via Bluewater. But incredibly the shop was not open! They apparently
could not open the roller door. Doh! So, all I could do was peer in at the
2001 sets I wanted...


Thankfully the shop was open today (Saturday) and was very busy. Picked up the
two LoM 'mechs' (7313 & 7314)as that was all I was really interested in.

The Toy Stack had quite a few bargins, most similar to those mentioned
elsewhere (Sith Infiltrator, etc). Pleasent suprise was 6982 reduced from 59.99
to 29.99.

Neil.



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  LLW/LSB report
 
I braved the weather today to take the kids to see Santa at LLW, and also in the hope of snapping up some 2001 sets. Sadly, the shop had no 2001 sets at all except for 5 LoM sets. They were reducing a lot of Star Wars sets by 50% including the (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)

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