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On Mon, 25 Jan 1999 18:43:33 GMT, Todd Lehman uttered the following profundities... (...) A shame, as it is a mere 3000 miles away, and our LHR-BOS flight doesn't start for 9 or so more weeks! (26 years ago, 29-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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(...) Good question. I think the list of numbers he read to me was from a quick inventory someone took this morning. So it could be there are more sets hiding. Or maybe not. Steve (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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(...) Wow! That M:Tron set wasn't out on the shelves... I wonder how much stuff they have stashed down in the basement? --Todd (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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Alright, who's the AZ resident who bought the Solar Snooper while I was trying to get through?? The store owner was friendly, and just a bit surprised about the interest these sets were getting. Apparently, he didn't realize LEGO sets go out of (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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(...) Sorry about the mess-up! Here are some more details -- kindly collected by Albert Shikaze <ashikaze@home.com>... Brookline News & Gifts 313 Harvard Street Brighton, MA 02446 U.S.A. Phone (617) 566-9327 Whew! --Todd (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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(...) Ave. (...) Is there anybody in the aera who would buy and ship for me ? (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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(...) OOPS -- that's Brookline, not Brighton!!! --Todd (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | FOTW: Stash of old sets in Brighton, Mass., U.S.A.
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[Followups set to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos] There's a cool little news & gift store in Brighton which has a stash of old LEGO sets -- some going back to 1987. Store: Brighton News & Gifts 311 Harvard St. Brighton, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Directions: Um, (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.market.shopping)
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I know that Target is building up in Concord, NH. (26 years ago, 21-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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Nicole Dente wrote in message <36291C36.151B@heron.mv.com>... (...) I took a trip up to Pheasant Lane Mall today, since a) I was bored, and b) I hadn't been up there in quite a while. According to the nice wall up in the mall, they say their target (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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Nicole Dente wrote in message <367BD8A0.6885@heron.mv.com>... (...) Is it just me or is TRU grossly understocked on some '99 sets, such as the Space Port line? I've found a better selection at the local Wal-Mart in Hudson instead of the Framingham (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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hi y'all... i've worked a lot of hours this week and have not kept up on reading news, so i may have somehow missed postings on the topic of 1999 sets. so hopefully someone can answer this for me without bopping me for being repetitive. are the 1999 (...) (26 years ago, 19-Dec-98, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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(...) jeremy -- i just recently moved to southern nh and i haven't found any good spots yet...let me know if you find any! (not to mention yet again that i remain the only poster to loc.us.nh.man) [sort-of on topic...] i was stuck in commuter (...) (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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(...) Actually, there's a BOFH BoF right afterwards, in the same room. I'll probably stay for it. :) BoF=Birds of a feather. A BoF session is an informal gathering of people interested in a common topic. BOFH, for those who don't know, is Bastard (...) (26 years ago, 7-Dec-98, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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(...) Hrmmmm.... wondering how Lego Mindstorms and BOFH go together.... :) (26 years ago, 7-Dec-98, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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Anyone else at the Usenix LISA conference in Boston? There's a BoF session on Lego Mindstorms Wednesday night at 8 -- you should come. Actually, people not at the conference could probably get in too... I don't think security is very strict for BoF (...) (26 years ago, 7-Dec-98, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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Nicole Dente wrote in message <366B2446.307D@heron.mv.com>... (...) I think I've actually been up there... If that's the one in the plaza with "The Paper Store", I think I've hit up that store before. I didn't see anything that I didn't already (...) (26 years ago, 7-Dec-98, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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(...) hey jeremy, thanks for the word on your shopping places! i really appreciate people in the area sharing where they shop. just to add another random place: last year (commuting a *lot* to mt wachusett for geologic field work) i pulled off rte 2 (...) (26 years ago, 7-Dec-98, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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(...) Do you mean The Construction Site? (URL) agree, TCS has the most extensive LEGO selection of any store in the Boston area -- even all of Massachusetts. And the owners are wicked cool and totally into LEGO too. :) (...) We've had good luck once (...) (26 years ago, 6-Dec-98, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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I'm looking for some other LEGO shopping locations to check out in the area... So far, in the six months I've lived up here (in Marlborough, for the curious), I've checked out the following stores: * The Construction Zone (IMHO, the absolute best (...) (26 years ago, 5-Dec-98, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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