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(...) It has gotten pretty rare around here too (even with 27+ Targets in the greater metro Minneapolis/St. Paul area). The post-Christmas clearance season has become relatively slim pickings even at 50% off; not much survives to 75% off like it did (...) (21 years ago, 24-Apr-03, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Andrew Saada writes: <SNIP> (...) No, he means the coupons ($5 off $25 of Harry Potter, and $10 off $50) that appeared in the March-April issue of LEGO (formerly LEGO Mania) magazine. (The one you get by mail when you send (...) (21 years ago, 24-Apr-03, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Holy schnikes! 90% off! Dang that is a find! Thanks for the heads up on the castle, although I doubt my Target has it (Middletown, NJ - central). I assume the mentioned Harry Potter coupon is from the Target flyer?? If not, then from what? (...) (21 years ago, 24-Apr-03, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Holy schnikes! 90% off! Dang that is a find! Thanks for the heads up on the castle, although I doubt my Target has it (Middletown, NJ - central). I assume the mentioned Harry Potter coupon is from the Target flyer?? If not, then from what? (...) (21 years ago, 24-Apr-03, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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"Brian B. Alano" <throwaway@insightbb.com> wrote in message news:HDu0uu.E67@lugnet.com... (...) I went by two Target stores today and neither had any copies of Hogwarts Castle (which really isn't surprising). Glad I picked up a couple at 50% a week (...) (21 years ago, 24-Apr-03, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) I was at mine (Bloomington, IN, USA) today, and they didn't. :-( (21 years ago, 24-Apr-03, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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<<snipp>> (...) Here at work (office) a lot of internal doors have windows, I think so you don't smack them up in people's faces. Kind of boring if you ask me :) Best regards, /Tobbe (URL) SPAM when e-mailing) (21 years ago, 24-Apr-03, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Ya I was thinking about that very car after I posted. I may have to give it a go. (...) A dozen? Well that might be a good start for YOU but it would be merely rounding error for me, regrettably. (21 years ago, 24-Apr-03, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) I dunno, someone posted a rendering in .trains a few days or so back that used that part as the exit chute on a hopper car (it used 3). Looked pretty good to me, so I might have to use a dozen or so up that way. -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual (...) (21 years ago, 24-Apr-03, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) NOOOOOOO, TLC may like the winning model, and release it as a set, and then there are even more useless parts around..... Paul (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.market.shopping)
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I feel bad even putting (dumping) that part into my daughter's bins... But then again, she might find some use for it that adults could never imagine. That is what Lego is all about. Perhaps BrickFest should have a contest - Given a pile of not so (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.market.shopping)
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:HDt3AK.1rK1@lugnet.com... (...) I suspect that with the new trains coming on the market soon and the 4561 being phased out, I imagine the demand for these is waning. Mike -- Mike (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Well, I just placed an order all the way from Africa for a mess of the door packs. Oodles! I'll find a use for them, maybe a nice *blue* cruiser... But I got the most annoying customer service person I've ever encountered--she sounded like the (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Oh ya, been there, done that. :-) What's always good is the notes you get from befuddled sellers, wondering what you are up to and some hoping to dump other dross on you. I'm wondering when it's going to happen to me for THIS part: (URL) part (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) There's an SKU shortage. Combine the doors and windows (in the right proportion) and an SKU is freed up for something else. That's goodness, in my view, as one does where formerly 2 were used. However I blow hot and cold on this, there are (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Larry - for some reason this phrase struck me as particularly funny. I would describe "Freaky desire" as the sensation that occurs as you go on a late night BrickLink hoarding spree, buying out the only 30 copies of some obscure part from 9 (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) of (...) OK, but if TLC is already doing right as far as the windows go, why screw with it? Why not just produce less of the door pack? -Mike Petrucelli (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) That's what BrickLink is for. If LEGO got the general proportion (average, across everyone) right, BL can smooth out lumps of freaky desire. (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) NOOO...OOO! What about people who want the windows and have no intention of making a train, therefore no need for (or even want) the doors. (...) -Mike Petrucelli (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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Because they have a VERY large # of them. Bryan K's post is probably spot on. TLG never has seemed to have a clue about windows/doors - when have you EVER seen a door/window pack that had a proper ratio of doors to windows? I guess in LegoWorld, (...) (21 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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