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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 19:45:51 GMT
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Richard Kennaway wrote:
> 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.
Well we don't really, there are the new overexpensive BASIC sets which
have a lot of bricks but for twice the price as before and if you are
lucky you can find an 1857 box of bricks, you get 950 bricks for £14
rather than the new basic set 4229 which has the same amount of bricks
but twice the price.
The person in the USA got tons of buckets took the white bricks and sold
the rest.
--
Carbon 60
ICQ # 5643170
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