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Re: Delurk and question about brick buying
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lugnet.loc.uk
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Mon, 17 May 1999 15:14:21 GMT
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Richard Kennaway wrote:
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> Hello. I started reading these newsgroups through having just bought a bunch
> of
> Mindstorms/Technics stuff for robot prototyping at work, but I decided to get
> some basic brick sets for myself as well, and I've been building a replica of
> Escher's "Relativity". It's about two-thirds complete, waiting for me to buy
> another box of bricks.
Hi and welcome! It sounds interesting.. will we get pictures? :)
> Question: where in the UK do people get bulk quantities of bricks, like that
> chap in the States who built the Parthenon with over 10,000 white bricks and
> plates? In all the auctions I see people selling tiny quantities of
> specialised
> parts. If I wanted to build "Relativity" really nicely, I'd need at least a
> thousand bricks and plates all the same colour.
We don't :( Well, not as easily as we should be able to.. ie Lego don't
provide bulk orders any more *deep sigh*. If the pieces you need are
fairly common then you can always try the bigger auctions - Auczilla
etc. Otherwise you might have luck buying bin-bags full of Lego
second-hand.
Richard
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