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(...) traded (...) it (...) It's back. And bigger than ever. No, I mean really! It was $18 to ship it back to me. I suspect that you folks would rather I pare some stuff out of it before circulating, so that's my plan. In eight days, the second (...) (24 years ago, 29-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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(...) With that being said, I'd like to announce that LUGOLA will be starting a *LUG box on November 4th. Ideally, we'd love to ship it to a LUG that is meeting on the 11th or 18th so it can begin moving. The idea is to get another activity going at (...) (24 years ago, 29-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya, lugnet.org.us.lugola, lugnet.loc.us.ca.la)
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(...) me (...) Hey. THAT is a nifty idea. Circumvents the "I dont want my address publicly posted" while also solving or at least reducing the frequency of "I don't have so and so's address can anyone help?" Um, is there any Jambalaya (or other) (...) (24 years ago, 29-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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(...) Of course, as Chris knows, that isn't bulletproof. Technic Box #2 came with such a list, but Cris's address was old... Frank (24 years ago, 2-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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(...) have (...) Well that's an easy fix. The person with the changed address should contact the box administrator, so he can send word to the box holder. The box holder would then update the address in question. Problem solved. Rob (24 years ago, 5-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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(...) It looks like this won't be happening this month at all, so I'm getting it started today. (...) I've changed this a bit since I had email responses that I failed to consider when building this order. This list is going out in the box and I'll (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: Weeks Box - round two (...no, really!)
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Got it today! WOO WOO!!! Nice box Chris! always a pleasure to get my grubby little paws into your box :) It's already going to need a bigger box for me to send it to Kyle, who's address I already have! It was rough trying to decide what to put in (...) (24 years ago, 26-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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Hello, GardenSlug is meeting on Nov 11. Cletus Romano is organizing that one. I'll send you some details. -Erik P.S. GardenSlug is New Jersey and nearby. (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya, lugnet.org.us.lugola, lugnet.loc.us.ca.la)
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| | Re: Weeks Box - round two (...no, really!)
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(...) little (...) Glad to hear it got to you safely. (...) That doesn't surprise me given the degree to which it was packed tightly. (...) You only took one thing, but you think it was a great box? Hmmm...did you take the fabuland garage or the (...) (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: Weeks Box - round two (...no, really!)
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Yes I took the Brick :) couldn't resist, One brick closer to MIBO now! (anyone want to toss some turntables in the next box!!) What I put in so far is a half gallon bag of parts, I noticed there weren't many parts like your last box so I started a (...) (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: Weeks Box - round two (...no, really!)
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(...) Yup. I should have put you right before me, instead of right after me ;-) Chris (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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(...) The Brick? Hmmm...methinks Chris added to his box after it left Los Angeles because the only bricks I remember seeing were of the soccer persuasion. ;-) (24 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: Weeks Box - round two (...no, really!)
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and what just do you think would be the odds of that brick still being there? BTW do you know who put the brick in? not that I need to know, I'm just curious :) Tamy (...) (24 years ago, 28-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: Weeks Box - round two (...no, really!)
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Hmmm...let's use the process of elimination. There was no RCX in there when I sent the box to Chris, but it was in there when you got the box from him. Hmmm...I'll take a wild stab at this one.... Chris, perhaps? ;-) -Dave (...) (24 years ago, 28-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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(...) Are you sure, you might have missed such a small thing... :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) FUT: lugnet.off-topic.fun Frank (24 years ago, 28-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Oh, I figured it would go. I just want some of what you put in. (...) It was me. I grabbed my third Mindstorms set for $99 at TRU recently and decided that would be a fair trade into the box for the stuff (including the four cool large wheels (...) (24 years ago, 28-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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(...) Heh, Heh! I knew the 956's wheels wouldn't be in there very long. Good move, Chris! I'll admit it...I didn't want to give them up, but adding in $75 or so to a Jambalaya box seemed crazy, so away they went. Besides, my quest to get 8 of them (...) (24 years ago, 29-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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Tamy, do you still have the Drab box? Paul Sinasohn (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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(...) I've got the box now, and by some miracle of scheduling, if I can arrange to meet Shiri while I'm back home for the holidays, we can effect an in person hand-off, and then I won't have to venture into the Post Office during the mad dash for (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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What I forgot to mention last night was that a couple things dissapointed me about the box: 1. Somewhere in the past few folks it went through a smokers house, and will have a new box when I send it along (hmm, Shiri, will this be a problem for you? (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: Weeks Box - round two (...no, really!)
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(...) Hmm, I didn't notice this but I do remember it being rather dusty. And FYI no one at my house smokes. Alot of the bags were in poor shape so I was going to replace them, but then we were out of baggies. (...) Yea I was dissapointed about all (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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(...) Hmm... well this is the first time I actually saw I'm included, but hey, awesome! Thanks for cc'ing it to me or I'd miss it entirely. <wipes forehead> I'm gonna be away between 22-29 of December (1), when are you gonna be around here? I'd be (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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(...) I'm pretty sensitive to smoke, so perhaps you just didn't notice it, in any case, the existing box is now in our recycle bin, I'll use a new one. I did also notice a "greasy" residue on my hands after handling the parts which is characteristic (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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(...) I'm in New England from 12/22 to 12/31, so perhaps we can connect the 30th, which is the best day for me to connect anyway. If that won't work out, I'll just hold onto the box and mail it to you after New Years. (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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Hey, don't forget the rest of the list! The last list posted by Chris was: Tamyra Teed anything interesting RockR, SW, WW Kyle Keppler Space, SW, trans RockR, SW, Castle Frank Filz Castle, Train, Pirate Space, Castle, Pirate Shiri Dori Castle, (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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(...) I thought I had posted earlier that my son basically wiped out JB#3... he went crazy when he hear that they were pieces like I had when I was his age... I contacted a couple of the next people on the list and they said that JBs were meant to (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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(...) Perhaps I missed it. Glad your son found stuff of use. When I collect enough junk for another box, I'll re-start JJB#3 and send it to the next person on the list. If I clean up the Weeks box some, I may actually be close to having enough stuff (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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Gad! I was supposed to update it a thousand years ago too. Well, maybe not a thousand, it just seems like it. Uh...When I get it back, after Shiri, I'm likely to alter the list forward of me to include people who emailed but didn't respond to the (...) (24 years ago, 22-Dec-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | UPDATE: Re: Weeks Box - round two (...no, really!)
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The Weeks box has been passed on to Shiri. I switched out the box with one which didn't smell like a chimney. I also sort of organized some of the parts (though my contribution is in a separate bag). If you want to be surprised by the box, don't (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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(...) You passed on it in DC. What changed? (...) Oh good. I was frightened by the tone of your note earlier talking about the suckiness of the box. For the record, taking out anything that could reasonably be called junk would have been OK with me. (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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More spoiler warning! These are actual pictures of the contents right now. So don't look if you don't wanna know!! Pictures of the jambalaya - don't look unless you're sure you want to! (URL) 504 contains things I decided I'm taking out so far; (...) (23 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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(...) I took one in DC also (at least I thought I did - I know I took some Fabuland). (...) My first glance showed it to be a lot worse than I realized. Saturday night I actually went through quite a bit of the box looking for some extra doo-dads (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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(...) I'm glad some of the bits from the castle set I bought and put in got snarfed up immediately (of course I kept a few of the parts for myself). Frank (23 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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(...) Well this makes me wonder because all the parts I put in were brand new, I just opened the box and dumped into brand new baggies. And there was only one other person between us :( I noticed from looking at the pics there doesn't seem to be (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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(...) Fabuland). (...) future (...) the (...) I (...) think (...) chimney, (...) and (...) just (...) be (...) I'm beginning to wonder if I mixed up the smoky box with something else (Shiri - who did the box I brought the JB in come from before me - (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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Well, I just go the box back yesterday and just looked through it today. I have to say that I am less than enthused. I think that the value of the box is similar to how it was before I dropped the RCX in. So basically, I think it lost about $50 (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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(...) I think one problem is the wide variation in values of items. For example, back at Brickfest when I traded in a couple packs of shooting cannon, what value is best to use for them? The $5.25 or so they cost me, or the $20+ that they go for on (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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[Major trimming since I figure all of you just read Chris' post] Bleah, that sounds majorly disappointing. My guess is there are people (or person - it obviously doesn't take many) who view the boxes as a place to "get cool pieces they want in (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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This is kind of confusing here. I admit that I don't sell parts and might not have the best idea of what parts are worth but I took very little out, so I think my trades were fair. If I remember correctly I took out I think 3 adventures torsos, 3 (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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Christopher Weeks wrote: <snip> (...) I didn't give it to anyone else. (...) I have no idea on the figs, I didn't look at any of them since I have enough figs right now, and spare parts for a couple if needed. <snip> (...) I know it took me a little (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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(...) Hmm, it does almost seem like there was an extra person between you and me. Did you check the box when it came back to you after the first attempt to mail to Kyle? I wonder if I managed to misplace a bag of stuff (or could Kyle have?)? As I (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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(...) Hmm... (...) Yep, I saw most of them... (...) Not that I can think of...? (...) It definitely had Tamy's return address, i remember it clearly. (...) Actually, I took a few pairs of hands - they were in useful colors. But there were minifigs (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jan-01, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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