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Just returned from a weekend trip home to MA. Made the trek up to the Construction Site in Waltham. This place has the best selection of Lego of any retailer (on-line or otherwise) that I've seen. They've got lots of Dacta sets available which I (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jun-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.md.bal, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Fest week of 21st?
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I'm in as well as long as I don't have any sudden conflicts or business travel. Now that I think of I that would be a "sudden conflict". Anyway I'm in if something gets organized. Eric (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jun-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: Fest week of 21st?
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(...) Count me in if something gets organized! That includes building and/or pizzaing and/or beering. --Todd (25 years ago, 6-Jun-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: Fest week of 21st?
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(...) I could potentially be interested, depending on the exact day and what is going on in my life at that point. In other words, I would try to make it. eric (25 years ago, 6-Jun-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Fest week of 21st?
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I should theoretically be in the Boston area the week of the 21st. My tentative last day at CTP is the 18th and I start at my new employer the next week, I should be in town all that week. Any chance for a get together of some sort? My work email (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jun-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Children's Museum
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Has anyone here ever been down to the Children's Museum? C'mon... fess up... The last time I was there (and this was going on, oh, roughly 5 years ago now) they had a section that had big Lego-type blocks. Really big. I doubt they were produced by (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: 1992 Polybags at Construction Site in Waltham, MA
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First some of you may have seen me posting (Mostly in Lugnet.starwars) elseware. I just wanted to throw my plug in for The Construction Site. Just a great store. I found it a couple of months ago after coming out of my dark ages. I can't wait for (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: 1992 Polybags at Construction Site in Waltham, MA
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(...) I seem to remember reading somewhere (eToys or LEGO press release) that they were only allowing eToys to sell as a 1) way to experiment with internet retailers and to 2) keep just any company (IE possibly with a bad reputation) from selling (...) (25 years ago, 28-May-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.build)
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| | RE: 1992 Polybags at Construction Site in Waltham, MA
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Hi, Yup, its pretty good, but not as great as the Apple, Intel and Tech Museums here in the valley. ;-) just kidding. Mark -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...net.com]On Behalf Of Todd Lehman Sent: Friday, (...) (25 years ago, 28-May-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: 1992 Polybags at Construction Site in Waltham, MA
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[Added .loc.us.ma.bos to group list and set followups there] (...) Woooooshhhh! Enter Han Stanley -- captain of the Millenium Porsche -- makes point five past limit-speed. :) (...) Hey, The Construction Site is going to be having another LEGO (...) (25 years ago, 28-May-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: 1992 Polybags at Construction Site in Waltham, MA
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(...) They have the largest selection of current LEGO (including DACTA) of any retailer in the Greater Boston area (maybe even all of New England) but since they are so unique and popular, things don't stay on the shelves long. The odd thing about (...) (25 years ago, 28-May-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: 1992 Polybags at Construction Site in Waltham, MA
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Frank Filz wrote in message ... (...) [ ... deleted for brevity ...] (...) vacation (...) stock (...) Unfortunately other than the polybags, there were no older sets to speak of. No pirates or castle. They did still have some Roboforce, Divers, and (...) (25 years ago, 28-May-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: 1992 Polybags at Construction Site in Waltham, MA
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(...) Not this stuff. :) I can't collect Space full-time, but I can stock up on some of the cool sets like this, especially at a buck ninety each. (...) I'd love a full spread of pictures of that. That's so cool. (...) Oh yeah, I know it isn't their (...) (25 years ago, 28-May-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: 1992 Polybags at Construction Site in Waltham, MA
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) their (...) WOW! I'm really going to have to stop by there the next time I'm in Mass. (fortuanately for me, most of my family is there). Perhaps a summer vacation is in order. Just out of curiosity, do they (...) (25 years ago, 28-May-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: 1992 Polybags at Construction Site in Waltham, MA
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... [ ... deleted for brevity ...] (...) LEGO (...) I wish I would have known you were so close, I would have asked you if there was some way I could have picked up my AucXILLA IX winnings. I was at the Wyndam Garden (...) (25 years ago, 28-May-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: 1992 Polybags at Construction Site in Waltham, MA
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(...) Mike, but I thought all space sucked! ;-) (...) Cool, that's my experience as well whenever I visit there in person. (We live only about an 8-minute drive away, and since they have the largest LEGO selection in the entire Greater Boston area, (...) (25 years ago, 28-May-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.build)
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| | SW sets in at The Construction Site
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The Construction Site in Waltham (www.constructiontoys.com) just got in a huge shipment of Star Wars sets: 7101 Lightsaber™ Duel $5.90 7110 Landspeeder™ $5.90 7111 Droid Fighter™ $5.90 7121 Naboo™ Swamp $9.90 7128 Speeder Bikes™ $9.90 7131 Anakin's (...) (25 years ago, 7-May-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: Plenty of Classic SW sets/Framingham
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(...) Well, I mean, I'd been hoping for it, too. Actually, I was hoping that my post would bring about the magical "oh, well, there's Ep I sets in Xxxxxxx." But, of course not. Anyway, I only have the Classic sets because someone posted that they (...) (25 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: Plenty of Classic SW sets/Framingham
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(...) Thanks Eric! I'd been hoping that the loc group would be used for stuff like this -- notifications of arrivals/supplies in local stores, etc. -- but even with both the arrival of the 1999 sets and the sw sets I noticed that it wasn't (with (...) (25 years ago, 25-Apr-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Plenty of Classic SW sets/Framingham
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At the Framingham/Natick Bradlee's, there were a bunch of sets from the Classic Trilogy. Two X-Wings, and a bunch of Snowspeeders, Speeder Bikes, and Landspeeders. No Y-wing/TIE sets, though. This was Friday night at about 6:30 pm. Bradlee's is on (...) (25 years ago, 24-Apr-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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