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Re: WTB: A Few 2x2x3 Extreme Steep-Slope CORNERS
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Mon, 24 Jan 2000 22:04:41 GMT
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Gary,

You are crazy!  The Louvre?  My wife and I wore ourselves out walking
through a tenth of that thing.  The ONLY thing small in there is the Mona
Lisa, which was not as big as everyone thinks.

I would love to see the Louvre in Lego a la Gary Istok.  After that, how
about Hearst Castle?

Mike Poindexter


Gary Istok <gistok@umich.edu> wrote in message
news:388C830A.5A34F1A9@umich.edu...
> 
> 
> Mr L F Braun wrote:
> 
> > Mr L F Braun wrote:
> > 
> > >    Hi everyone,
> > > 
> > >    I'm looking for one to three pairs of the new blue steep-slope
> > > corners used in the 2000 Castle sets.  I'm offering *five* blue • standard
> > > steep-slope 2x2x3 bricks in blue for *each pair* of corners, or other
> > > trade/payment to be worked out between us (I currently value the • corners
> > > at $2.00 a pair).  This is a good chance to get some variation in your
> > > extreme-slope stock, now that you've got blue corners in hand; for my
> > > part, I'd like to avoid buying the Guarded Treasury because it doesn't
> > > have many other pieces that I want.  I'm not much of a Castle person,
> > > but I have a lot of Castle gear if you're looking to trade for • minifigs,
> > > castle building bits, or weaponry.
> > 
> > I've got the three pairs I need.  Thanks!
> > 
> > best,
> > 
> > LFB
> 
> Hi Lindsay,  I just saw a group of 16 of these go for over $23 on US EBAY. • I
> was bidding on them, but then I decided it was getting pricey, and figured
> that when LEGO Direct starts with bulk sales, I could get a lot more of • them
> for $23.  But I did  buy a lot of 20 of the regular 2x2x3 blue steep • slopes
> there for $10.50.
> 
> I already have my sights on a vast number of the blue steep slopes.  I one • day
> want to build the Louvre, the enormous palace in the heart of Paris that • is a
> museum today.  If I can purchase (from LEGO Direct) a large number of Tan
> bricks and white windows, plus the blue extreme slopes (I prefer that • color to
> dark grey), I think I can produce a relatively decent copy in the classic • LEGO
> scale (1 door = 3 bricks high).  Even then, it will probably be about 10 • feet
> long, due to the vastness of the original (on its south flank, the Louvre • has
> 1,800 ft frontage on the Seine River).
> 
> There is just something about extreme sloped bricks that lends itself very
> well to making French Mansard roofed buildings.
> 
> Gary Istok
> 



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  Re: WTB: A Few 2x2x3 Extreme Steep-Slope CORNERS
 
Yes Mike I know I'm crazy! When I visited Paris last in 1994, I was walking around the open courtyard of the Louvre (Cour de Carousel), the pavillions were just screaming steep corner LEGO slopes at me. I was even thinking about a further madness, (...) (27 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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(...) Hi Lindsay, I just saw a group of 16 of these go for over $23 on US EBAY. I was bidding on them, but then I decided it was getting pricey, and figured that when LEGO Direct starts with bulk sales, I could get a lot more of them for $23. But I (...) (27 years ago, 24-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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