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Re: Soccer Truck at TRU Saturday?
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Fri, 8 Sep 2000 17:58:09 GMT
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There's a Pooh and Mickey Mouse display;
  Including a Mickey Mouse sculpture about 3-4' tall.

several Star Wars displays,
  The minifig scale skiff and AT-ST are very nice.

including a life-size battle droid;
  This is one of the coolest LEGO items I've ever seen.  Very nice.

Race; explorers/dinosaurs;
  And a dinosaur head (Maybe T-Rex.  Nah, probably V-Raptor) that leans out of
a crate and growls.  It actually reminded me a lot of that Steg someone did
recently.

and one town-oriented scene devoted to soccer.  The last one is large and
rather amusing -- soccer balls (and monkeys) everywhere!
  Lots of neat details.  The National Bank of Soccer was cute.

On exit, pick up a souvenier LEGO Soccer Summer 2000 Duplo brick.
Outside, you can play LEGO soccer, pick up a poster, and pick up
Ortega seasoning packets.
  Also, sign up to win 4 tickets to the game tomorrow and grab an orange.


  Being there with Michael Huffman (Elements 2000 on BrickBay) a lot of the
unusual pieces were noted.  I remember: brown Duplo, tan SW jet engines, large
quantities of brown and foliage in the Endor scene and an incredible number of
trans-orange 1xN bricks as a lava flow in the Adventures scene.

        Later,
         Gino A...



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  Re: Soccer Truck at TRU Saturday?
 
Geoff and I went to see the truck on Friday. I took Geoff out of school a half- hour early so that we could see the truck before it closed at 4pm. It turns out someone had realized the problem and the truck was open until 6pm. We both enjoyed the (...) (24 years ago, 11-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.oh.col)

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  Re: Soccer Truck at TRU Saturday?
 
I just returned from TRU, and there were not many people there. I missed the truck where it was here for the All Star Game, so here's a description: The semi trailer contains displays the length of both sides. The displays are mostly theme-based (...) (24 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.oh.col)

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