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(...) Yes, that's what I meant. Thanks for the info. (...) Ah. There's that "Lego Direct" again -- can somebody please tell me what that is? (...) Yeah, did that, read it, read the things linked from it, still have no clue. I know the newsgroup is (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-04, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Pick A Brick now in Canada
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(...) Scott L. told me they were. I have to check when I get home but the bags are a lot bigger than the grab bag bags I've seen before. Volumetrically the bag, which is much longer than it is wide, when stuffed, resembles a cylinder or lozenge that (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: Pick A Brick now in Canada
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Replying to several related messages... (...) Are the Discovery Mills ones really filled with as much as a large PAB cup for the price of a small? That size seems to be the same as the grab bags the stores fill with returned pieces. The store policy (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: why no pirates in the U.S.?
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(...) It's not generally available yet, if you mean the 4+ Jack Stone pirate range. Classic Pirates went on clearance in 1998 and have been "resting" since then. Some sets were reissued in 2001 at the instigation of Lego Direct, but the last of (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-04, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: why no pirates in the U.S.?
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(...) Odd...I swore I saw them at K-Mart just last week, in the US. I am almost positive they are available here. LEGO has pretty much ended doing "US-only"/"Europe only" sets outside of promotional sets. (20 years ago, 7-Sep-04, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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Why is it that a search for "pirate" at Shop At Home brings up a bunch of pirate kits, all marked "Sorry, item is not available in this country"? Is the entire pirate line only sold in Europe, or what (and why)? I hope this is an appropriate forum (...) (20 years ago, 7-Sep-04, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: NEW Train Set! 65537 My Own Train Classic Freight Train
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(...) I'll talk to the Independent Toy Dealer (ITD) group about this ASAP. In the meantime, if you have a local retailer that you think would be a good bet for the ITD group to contact, email me the name of the store and any contact info/location (...) (20 years ago, 7-Sep-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.trains, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Re: NEW Train Set! 65537 My Own Train Classic Freight Train
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(...) If an individual Lego fan wished to introduce products such as these to small toy dealers and hoby shops, how would one go about doing that?? How can someone get in contact with the small retailer program? Rather than just visiting my local (...) (20 years ago, 7-Sep-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
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| | Re: NEW Train Set! 65537 My Own Train Classic Freight Train
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(...) This set is basically a bundling of existing SAH exclusive train products, much like the Target specials from last year were. They are targeted towards small toy dealers and hobby shops. These products should be appearing in local small toy (...) (20 years ago, 7-Sep-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
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| | Re: Pick A Brick now in Canada
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(...) That's neat - glad to hear they pulled off a PAB selection there. Do they hold you to the policy of not stacking bricks? (URL) there's a lot of wasted space in the bag... Ed (20 years ago, 7-Sep-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: Is Lego running out of Castle ideas??
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(...) Playmobile's and LEGO's themes have often run mysteriously parallel. I remember noticing that both companies were big into pirates at the same time, and the same for wild west. In fact, Fort Legoredo and Fort Eagle had very similar packaging. (...) (20 years ago, 7-Sep-04, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) This is cool. Finally Pick-A-Brick has come to Canada. Now I'm kicking myself for not taking my wife up on the offer to swing by St. Jacob's on the way back from Marineland the previous weekend. D'oh! How much did you pick up? Play well. Tim (...) (20 years ago, 7-Sep-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) This look like the same bucket tree used at Discover Mills. The bags there go for I think 6.99 USD and seem to hold about the same, or maybe a trifle more, than a large PAB cup. (20 years ago, 7-Sep-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) Those are all the buckets. The tree has 32 of them. Unfortunately, someone walked in front of the one picture I took of it. I was thinking of getting one of everything for the inventory but decided to take pictures instead. The red slopes and (...) (20 years ago, 7-Sep-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) Well, that's just my feeling, but it was based on a very quick comparison. I'd be interested to hear from someone who packed one of each, to see whether or not the large bag can hold $4 worth more than the small. (...) I don't think so. :( I (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.ca)
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Hi Allan, (...) Too bad I have to spent about 3 minutes finding the way, being my first time in Waterloo. Next time I will know to go for the small bags. Thanks. (...) I was there (in a pig tee :-) too around most of the 4pm filling up one large (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) Martin, I'll let doug confirm, but from what I can see in his pictures I think he captured every one of the buckets on the rack. Keep in mind, in some of the buckets they mix together 2 or 3 different shapes/sizes of the same colored element. (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: Is Lego running out of Castle ideas??
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Larry Lesser wrote: snip (...) I would say they are running out of great castle ideas and making average to sub-par sets. The Siege Tower concept is quite old for LEGO Castle. It was used in 1984 in set 6061 Siege Tower. (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-04, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Pick A Brick now in Canada
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"Doug Eaton" <doug@ElecBrick.com> wrote in message news:I3MrH0.1pt4@lugnet.com... (...) Blocks (...) a (...) as a (...) This looks just like the system used at the LEGO Outlet in Denver. I had a chance to stop by the Denver Outlet about three weeks (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: Pick A Brick now in Canada
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(...) Doug, Thank you very much for posting this. I live only about 35 minutes from Bricks and Blocks, so this is very good news. This must be very new for them. I was just there on August 15 and there was no sign of it then. I had spoken with the (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.ca)
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