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(...) I once opened a set that had been 25 years in the shrinkwrap. What a rush that was. I currently have a number of older unopened sets and some of them I will be letting my kids (or grandkids) open, once they are old enough to appreciate why it (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) It also cuts the other way... I recently opened a factory sealed 12 volt train motor (7865) which could be 20 years old, only to find that the rubber gaskets for the wheels had hardened so much that they crumbled in my hands. What a rush (of (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) I know the feeling..... when I got those 35 London Bus sets back in the 1980's, I opened every single set! (Ouch!!!) I ripped off the shrink wrap of every single one of them, and sorted all the pieces (there were 840 classic windows!) In (...) (24 years ago, 25-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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Which London Bus set would you have got? I notice from a quick search on lugnet, that there are three with a picture, and one without. The one without a picture is 769, the rest are 313, 760, and 384 - I bet anyone finding sets that old would have a (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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The ones that I got were the 760 (US version). Even though they were 1975-76 sets, I got them in 1985 at about 6 different toy clearance stores in the metro Detroit area (about 5-7 per store). The reason that I scoured all their stores in the (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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Gary Istok <gistok@umich.edu> wrote in message news:39F86D4D.64B495...ich.edu... (...) 1975-76 (...) metro (...) stores (...) because I (...) Jets (...) That's good. They do seem to be an excellent parts pack if you need red LEGO pieces. (...) (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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