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I happened to wander into a the Toy Works Store in Keene today and found plenty of the SW sets on the shelves. I only bought a Land Speeder, as I am a little short of money. But after my purchase there was still 1 Land speeder, 3 Speeder Bikes, 4 X (...) (26 years ago, 31-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.nh.man, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Star Wars LEGO sighted: Tewksbury, MA WalMart!
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(...) I went to one of my local Wal-Mart's today as well, but found no SW sets. We have no Target stores in my area. We have a Super KMart, but every time I look there, the Lego shelf space seems to be shrinking. That leaves really only Wal-Mart and (...) (26 years ago, 7-Mar-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: Star Wars LEGO sighted: Tewksbury, MA WalMart!
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Going to Walmart in a few minutes, hope there are some there!!! Thanks for the info, Jeff! Scott Sanburn (...) (26 years ago, 7-Mar-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Star Wars LEGO sighted: Tewksbury, MA WalMart!
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I won't bore everyone with all the details of how I went to WalMart hoping they'd have the Shanghai Surprise set in, and was dissappointed. I won't even go into how I looked up onto the overstock and got an incredible surprise at seeing the LEGO (...) (26 years ago, 6-Mar-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: Mindstorms Meeting hosted by TCS 2/27/99
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(...) Urgh. I was in San Jose, at LinuxWorld Expo/Conf (very cool, btw. Larry Wall gave an awesome talk titled "Perl -- the first postmodern programmming language."). (26 years ago, 6-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: Mindstorms Meeting hosted by TCS 2/27/99
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(...) D'OH! Is there any place I can find out about these meetings further in advance? Am I missing something somewhere? I'd love to go... I really enjoyed the one meeting I was at (even if I was a zombie from sleep deprivation), but I keep hearing (...) (26 years ago, 27-Feb-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: animated lego movie
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(...) Hey, Todd....Waltham...Mass? A minifest in Boston.. A cross post to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos! You guys are based in MA! There is a group of LEGO fanatics that get together regularly in Massachusetts?! I have got to get back up there! After 23 (...) (26 years ago, 27-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Mindstorms Meeting hosted by TCS 2/27/99
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Tomorrow (Saturday, February 27) at 1:00 p.m. The Construction Site will be hosting a Mindstorms Meeting for adult kids aged 16 and over. Bring your robot if you have one, or come see others models. Chat with other Mindstormers (you are not alone!). (...) (26 years ago, 27-Feb-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: animated lego movie
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[Added lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos to newsgroups list] (...) Hey Joshua! Welcome! I loved your photos BTW that you brought to TCS last summer! (...) I don't think it's really inappropriate -- not when it's mentioned in passing like this and you haven't (...) (26 years ago, 27-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: MiniFest in Boston on Monday
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I got an offline request for more detail. Here's a copy of my RTL post. A report on this... This was pretty low key but good fun. Todd came and brought my AucZILA VIII winnings, as well as a few models, and Crispin and Steve from the Construction (...) (26 years ago, 23-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: MiniFest in Boston on Monday
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Sorry we missed you, we had a good time! (...) (26 years ago, 23-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: MiniFest in Boston on Monday
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(...) :) I almost changed my mind and decided to come. But it's SO cold out there! (We'd have to walk a ways....) But next time there's one of these things I _promise_ to come. (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: MiniFest in Boston on Monday
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(...) Aw, c'mon -- you can make it! There'll even be pizza! --Todd (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: MiniFest in Boston on Monday
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Hmmm. I dunno if I'll make it; I'll try to stop by if I get a chance. I've been busy lately! :( (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: MiniFest in Boston on Monday
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I **DO** have about 8 9V creations with me, mostly stuff that has been seen on the pages, but did include my latest SW unit. I also have the frog game with me. Parking on Vassar should be starting to open up by 7 so there should be some street (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: MiniFest in Boston on Monday
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(...) OK, Suz says she'll bring some track and a power pack. (...) We'll bring this along too. (...) Should we park in the garage next to CTP or is there a back lot? How about a front door?--a place to knock or should we page you from a payphone (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: Caldors: going out of business
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Hi, I think Caldors was in Chapter 11 a couple of years ago, so they may not have made it out. Mark (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Caldors: going out of business
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Jeff Johnston wrote: <snip> (...) my update: caldor's in tyngsboro (rtes 3/4) had exactly *3* lego sets last thursday. (recent stuff) according to joakim, the one in manchester nh is equally barren. (though i did finally get a duplo i've been (...) (26 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Caldors: going out of business
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I hadn't seen any announcements to this effect on the groups, so here it is: as near as I can tell, the retail chain of Caldors (New England area) is either going completely out of business or closing all of their stores in the Boston area. All toys (...) (26 years ago, 21-Feb-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: In Boston area 21-24 Feb, who wants to MiniFest (tm)?
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(...) 7 PM. I have a seminar to attend during the day. (26 years ago, 20-Feb-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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