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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 (...) (26 years ago, 24-Apr-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | May 3rd and Toys R Us Framingham
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Well, here's a bit of non-news... I just got off the phone with Toys R Us in Shopper's World in Framingham. I called to ask if they would or would not be open for this Star Wars Episode I thing at 12:01am May 3rd- I have to admit I was half (...) (26 years ago, 21-Apr-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: Update 5: Pirate Auction
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Oops, Sorry guys for posting this to the wrong group. Mike Z. Mike Zinkowsky wrote in message ... (...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Update 5: Pirate Auction
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Current bids: 6289 Alex Eulen $100 going once 6289 Otis Anderson $100 going once 6289 Frank Filz $110 going once 6263 Frank Filz $22 going once 6263 Pat Shepard $22 going once 6263 Mark Parker 2 @ $22 going once *****A reminder just so everyone (...) (26 years ago, 18-Apr-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Rare find in unlikely place.
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After being dragged along to Cloud Nine Toys in Sudbury to pacify my girlfriend's Beanie Baby addiction, I found #6543 (Sail 'n Fly Marina) for $82.00... Considering everything else they had (mostly new sets, except for some Pirates sets), I was (...) (26 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: Pirate Auction (was Found Pirates & Train)
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Hi Mike! Now that you've bought the sets, can I ask what the heck store you found them in? :) [Is that bad Lugnetiquette?] Dying of curiosity...Nikky (26 years ago, 11-Apr-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Pirate Auction (was Found Pirates & Train)
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Hello all, For those unaware, for the last few days I have been dealing with members of the group and sending out Lego's from a local store here in MA. Everything went smoothly except for a few sets. These sets were asked for so overwhelmingly, that (...) (26 years ago, 11-Apr-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.ma.wor, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains, lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Found Pirates & Train (yes 1 train not plural)...let me know if interested
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All right here we go: I went back this evening, and here's the report... Sadly the SESchooner was sold out, so sorry to all those that requested that one set. Bellow will be a list of sets that I inventoried completely, besides these, there were (...) (26 years ago, 9-Apr-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.ma.wor, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Found Pirates & Train (yes 1 train not plural)...let me know if interested
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OK everyone, I received an overwhelming response to this post. I am going to the store this evening, and will give you all a complete list tomorrow. A large number of people have requested a SESchooner, so I'll see how many they have, and I will do (...) (26 years ago, 8-Apr-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.ma.wor, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains)
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| | Found Pirates & Train (yes 1 train not plural)...let me know if interested
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Hello all, I was in a small local store over the weekend, and found that they had a bunch of pirate sets and a train. The train was set #4559 they had a couple of them. The pirates were various sets, though none too old. I think there was a (...) (26 years ago, 7-Apr-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.ma.wor, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains)
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| | Star wars sets still available in Keene, NH
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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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