| | 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 (...) (26 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 (...) (26 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 (...) (26 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 (...) (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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