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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Dan Jezek writes:
> > On another note, I find it interesting and amusing that some people collect
> > old sealed vintage sets and then never open them :-) I can't see any other
> > reason in having a bunch of sealed sets sitting on a shelf other than with
> > the intent of reselling them in the future when they go up in value. Could
> > there be any other satisfaction in having sealed sets? Maybe the thought of
> > one day opening them or just the idea that I can rattle the box and look at
> > the old pieces still shiny and new after so many years in their original
> > baggies through plastic molding?
>
> 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 was a rush to open a 25 year old set and handle the bricks
> for the first time since it was packed...
>
> So, no, don't keep *all* your sets unopened! But if everyone opened ALL
> their sets right away there would be less OLD sets to open, if you see what
> I mean.
>
> I'd set FUT somewhere else but I'm not sure where...
>
> ++Lar
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
retrospect I wish I hadn't, but it's too late now. Ditto for the Yellow Castles
and Main Street sets.
Gary Istok
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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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| (...) 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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