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| As of today, Charlotte is dead dry of all Star Wars and ThrowBots. Just when I have enough money to acquire an X-Wing and Tie Fighter set and the three ThrowBots I am missing (Ski, Granite, Electro) the sets are all gone. I searched three each of (...) (26 years ago, 20-Apr-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral)
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| (...) Its a little suburb of Raleigh... Also know as the "Containment Area for Relocated Yankees." (...) Hmm, Thanks :) I'll have to look that up. where is it? near Charlotte? That's about 3 hours from me. (...) Hmm, wish I had known about that (...) (26 years ago, 20-Apr-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral)
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| I'm 17 and living in Charlotte, NC. I used to have two major partners in the building hobby, but they betrayed me and bought a bunch of stuff on AucZilla using my name. Now I only have a few 'minor' partners who just buy sets and build them. They (...) (26 years ago, 20-Apr-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral)
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| Where the hell is Cary? There are about ten of us 'experienced' buildings in Charlotte. There's myself, a self-proclaimed 'master', and a few others. Most of the people in Charlotte aren't big on this stuff; most of my old friends have given up (...) (26 years ago, 20-Apr-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral)
| | | | | SW found (now gone) at Capitol Blvd. Target
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| I picked up the last Snowspeeder set at the target at Capitol Blvd yesterday. So far, I've got the landspeeder, speeder bikes, and snowspeeder. Now looking for the X-wing. --Karim (26 years ago, 27-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral)
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| Alan wanted me to post this: From: Alan Clegg <abc@bast.firehouse.net> This won't make it to the lugnet groups, but a followup: TRU at crossroads does not have StarWars as of this morning, and the 'regional manager' informed me that "Oh, those have (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral)
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| Mike, very nice assesment of the Cary area... I've a couple comments: (...) I managed to get 2 copies of the Flying Ninha Fortress for $69.95 there the other day. They were marked so on the shelf (or at least thats what I thought). I also picked up (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral)
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| Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) Small world - hopefully you were here on Saturday when the weather was nice. Sunday was kind of nasty ... ;-) Here is my assessment of the LEGO market in the Cary, NC area where I also live. If you are familiar (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral)
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| (...) Of course there is the additional coincidence that I grew up in Massachusetts near Boston... (specifically in Concord and Lexington - I've seen mention of a toy store in Concord, and wonder if its the same toy store of my youth...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral)
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| (...) Wow, small world! I was just in Cary over the weekend for my niece's 1st birthday party. Spent the whole time getting caught up on family, didn't go shopping at all. Anything good that I missed? :) --Todd (26 years ago, 24-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral)
| | | | | Star Wars found in Cary K-Mart (corner of Kildaire Farms Rd. and Maynard Rd.)
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| I found the Star Wars sets at K-Mart in Cary. I picked up all five. After I got one of each, only one X-Wing left, several Snow Speeders, and tons of Landspeeders and Speeder Bikes. I just finished assembling the Landspeeder. Frank (26 years ago, 24-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral, lugnet.market.shopping)
| | | | | Re: Triangle folks
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| Karim wrote in message <36F81057.B499B319@m...ng.com>... (...) only (...) I was going to suggest this also... Another possibiliy, for all the traffic these groups are getting so far, and the fact that a bunch of areas are not well served by any of (...) (26 years ago, 24-Mar-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.us.nc.dur, lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral)
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| (...) Hmm, As my web pages show, I'm primarily into space (though I have a soft-spot for castle sets), but even as a kid, I remember never being too interested in the "Official" Lego models. They stayed built for about 20 minutes before they got (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral, lugnet.loc.us.nc.dur)
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| You know, I think we in NC would be better served if there were a lugnet.loc.us.nc triangle (and possibly: lugnet.loc.us.nc triad). Having seperate groups for durham and raleigh really isnt that useful, since we're only 20 minutes away, and having a (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral, lugnet.loc.us.nc.dur)
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| Alan Clegg asked me to post this for him since he's having trouble posting... For some unknown reason, the lugnet thing won't let me post. Can you pass this on to the readers of the 'nc' (Raleigh area) lugnet list(s)? <BIO> Alan Clegg -- 36yr old (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral, lugnet.loc.us.nc.dur)
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| (...) So do I. I also just got an e-mail from Mike Walsh who also is in Cary. (...) 36 What are peoples theme interests? Right now I think I'm all over the place. Frank (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral)
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| Hi! I'm local to the triangle. I grew up in Durham, but I live in Cary now. good to hear from your guys. What ages do we represent here? I'm 24. --Karim ((URL) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral, lugnet.loc.us.nc.dur)
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| Hi, I've recently come out of my dark ages, actually, I like to think of them as my dim ages, I always oohed and aahed the Lego aisle in stores... Thanks to the internet Fred Martin (who spoke about Mindstorms and other fun technology ideas at a (...) (26 years ago, 22-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.cha, lugnet.loc.us.nc.dur, lugnet.loc.us.nc.fay, lugnet.loc.us.nc.gre, lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral, lugnet.loc.us.nc.win)
| | | | | Re: anyone out there?
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| (...) Well, I look in the usual places (K-mart, Wal * Mart, TOYS'R'US...but I have found the best deals from individuals selling part or all of their collection. I also look at thrift stores often. (...) (26 years ago, 21-Oct-98, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral)
| | | | | Re: anyone out there?
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| (...) I never thought I'd get a response so quickly. Do you have specific stores to bye lego's from or do you just order them? ======== Posted via the LUGNET discussion group web interface ======== (URL) Search, Read, Post, or Watch Traffic (26 years ago, 20-Oct-98, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral)
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