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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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| | Re: local 1999 sets?
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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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| | dreaming and Re: Local LEGO shopping recommendations?
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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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| | Re: Usenix/LISA BoF on Mindstorms
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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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Just got the Caldor flyer in the mail - starting Sunday, they're having a 'Buy one, get 50% off' sale on their entire stock of LEGO sets. Since there are plenty of them in the Boston area, I thought I'd let people know. J, going to FAO Schwarz (...) (26 years ago, 21-Nov-98, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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Sorry I couldn't be there. I really wanted to be. However, I just started a new job and my manager had some expectation of me. In addition, the holidays are slowly creeping up on us here and there is so much to do. The worst of which is the fact (...) (26 years ago, 18-Nov-98, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: Hello (delurk)
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(...) holy de-lurk, jeff! now that you've made your appearance in the boston area, you've got to 'fess up regarding your post in market.buy-sell-trade... where's this mysterious "local store" with old sets!?! :) proud to be the only poster ever to (...) (26 years ago, 18-Nov-98, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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(...) Greetings, Jeff! I see your test was successful. I too have a soft spot in my heart for those Classic Space sets. Had a few of them when I was a kid. Hope you have fun digging out the old collection. Just try not to get any mashed potatoes in (...) (26 years ago, 16-Nov-98, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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(...) Much thanks to Steve and Crispin for hosting what was a very fun evening! I hope we get together again (maybe January or so?) Some of us still have yet to build anything worthy of showing off. but given a few months... :-) Perhaps next time (...) (26 years ago, 16-Nov-98, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Hello (delurk)
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Basically a test post to see if the posting form I filled out works. To keep this on topic, some of my LEGO history. My favorite themes have aleays been Classic Space (old classic Space - the blue & grey color scheme) and Castle. I'm not terribly (...) (26 years ago, 15-Nov-98, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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