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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 (...) (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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