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40% Off Star Wars at The Science Center in Newport, RI
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Mon, 17 Apr 2000 21:00:37 GMT
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I spent this past weekend in Newport, doing the tourist thang, when I stumbled
upon a really cool toy store right on the waterfront in the historic district
of Newport. The Thames Science Center http://www.thamesscience.org/ seems to
specialize in the kind of construction toys that are carried by the similarly-
acronymed The Construction Site in Waltham, MA.
Anyway, the Thames Science Center apparently bought too much Star Wars
inventory, and is clearing it out at 40% off. (Some of the prices seemed to
be about 10% or more higher than list price, so it's not quite as good a deal
as it sounds -- the worst example I saw was the Sith Infiltrator <set:7151>
for about $42, but they also had the Mos Espa Podrace <set:7171> for "only"
$99, which would be about $60 on sale.)
I picked up a Gungan Sub and an Extreme Creatures kit (marked down to $25 on
clearance) and got out of the store for under $60, even with the 7% sales
tax. I would have bought more, but I didn't want to carry around all that
LEGO while I was just trying to be a tourist. (BTW, my mini review of the
Extreme Creatures kit is that it probably wasn't even worth $25.)
TSC looks like a really cool store, complete with a hands-on play area and a
lot of great toystuffs. If you live in that area, check it out. A store like
that deserves a little bit of a fan base.
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