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(...) Frank Filz here. Live in Cary, work in the Park. I've just started collecting in the last couple months (having been an armchair browser for years). My interests are rather wide: Mindstorms, train, adventurers, wild west, castle, and pirates. (...) (26 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral)
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(...) Hi, My name is Karim Nassar... and I am a Lego fan... :-) I'm in Cary, work in Raleigh. I collect mainly (95%) for parts to build my own designs, primarily in the realm of Space/Sci-Fi models. Web Pages: (URL) (26 years ago, 28-Apr-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral)
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I just wanted to know who in this area are Lego fans. Also, what are your specific interests about legos. I like the town and train themes myself. I just start collecting again around July of last year and found I missed some good sets over the (...) (26 years ago, 28-Apr-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral)
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Other than the standard May 3rd date I haven't heard anything. I haven't been asking either as I already have an X-Wing, a Snow Speeder, and Land Speeder. I myself will not be at any store on May 3rd because I will be in St. Thomas! Mike James (...) (26 years ago, 28-Apr-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral)
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That's cool that you did that. Of course I can't go until after work and I don't know where that Wal-Mart is. Do you know when they're supposed to be out in stores in full force? Jimmy (...) (26 years ago, 28-Apr-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral)
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This evening I had to go to Wal-Mart to pick up a couple of carriage bolts (Lowe's was already closed) and I cruised the LEGO aisle just to see if anything had changed. On the shelf I found two lone Star Wars sets, one Land Speeder and one Speeder (...) (26 years ago, 28-Apr-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral, lugnet.loc.us.nc.dur)
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We'll have to get together sometime. I'd be an honor to meet you. (26 years ago, 20-Apr-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral)
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(...) Yeah, As far as I can tell, Raleigh and Cary are cleaned out too. (...) Thanks! I'll try to schedule a trip out there sometime. --Karim (26 years ago, 20-Apr-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral)
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If you are looking for Star Wars Lego sets, I'd try here in Charlotte. From what I hear, a bunch of shipments are coming to the local TRUs and Zainy Brainy. (26 years ago, 20-Apr-99, to lugnet.loc.us.or.por, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral, lugnet.loc.us.nc.dur)
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Odd collection of news groups to post this to but once you read through you'll see the linkage ... ;-) I am in Portland (actually Wilsonville) for a couple of days this week (from Raleigh, NC) and had a little free time this afternoon so I decided (...) (26 years ago, 20-Apr-99, to lugnet.loc.us.or.por, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral, lugnet.loc.us.nc.dur)
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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)
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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)
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