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I did my 50% off shopping tonight (is it just me or did the wait seem like ages?!!) I pretty much cleared out Appleton WI of the better stuff - all the Droid Escapes and Railway Expresses (sorry) I nabbed a few Arctic & LOM multipacks, but theres (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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Report of my local (NW Houston- FM 529 @ hwy 6) Target sales: 3403 $10.40 Fans' Grandstand with Scoreboard 3408 $14.90 Super Sport Coverage 78800 $ 7.90 soccer bonus set 4561 $64.90 Railway Express (5 or 6 of these left) 4609 $14.90 Fire Attack Team (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.loc.us.tx, lugnet.loc.us.tx.hou, lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Visited 2 Targets today in Texas both stores had moved toys to 50% off! I picked up a few droid escapes and a tie fighter for me and an exploding bank studios for sale or trade. The only sets I was interested in was the 7166 or 7146 but only (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | US S@H Specials, Jan 9 - Jan 15, 2002
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(URL) (hit 4 when the recording starts) Duplo/Primo 2592 Baby Mickey Stack'n'Learn $19.99 $10.00 System 6558 Shark Cage Cove $29.99 $15.00 5955 All Terrain Trapper $29.99 $19.99 6150 Crystal Detector $19.99 $10.00 5956 Air Zeppelin $19.99 $10.00 (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.market.shopping)
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After having dinner I went to the TRU and saw that they didn't have anything really special. The Alpha Team Mech that I found on Sunday is gone. Interesting? Maybe. Maybe they put it out and then found out that they weren't suppose to. Any way so (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Weird Find at Detroit-Area TRUs
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"Justin Pankey" <legofan@massnet1.net> wrote in message news:GpnEEA.DLw@lugnet.com... (...) [ ... snipped ... ] (...) received (...) $12.88. (...) My guess is that it was a Christmas return. Wow, 6568 for $13 is a deal, it is a great set for parts. (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Larry, I'm now TERRIFIED!! To Mike Walsh: Alot of the Meijer stores here in the Detroit area received quantities of 6568 last year. They've been priced the whole time at $12.88. It could be part of an inventory dumping like Lego did with the (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Weird Find at Detroit-Area TRUs
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(...) No. Be afraid... be VERY afraid. (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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"Justin Pankey" <legofan@massnet1.net> wrote in message news:GpMx4z.9Fy@lugnet.com... (...) do?? (...) Speaking of weird finds, I had one myself this morning. I stopped at my local Wal-Mart to see if anything was on the clearance shelves. This (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) There's even more than you think....myself for instance! Larry, Don't you live VERY far away from there...more than the 1 hour I do?? Is there any place safe from your reach? :) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) This is the first sighting I recall of the new Ogel base, but a few sightings have been posted in lugnet.year.2002, and to a lesser extent the SW and Potter groups. I've seen most of the other Jan. sets at Target and TRU here in the SF Bay (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.year.2002)
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| | Re: Weird Find at Detroit-Area TRUs
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(...) I can. :-) It rocks. (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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I can't believe that many of us no about that little plaza.... Eric (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Weird Find at Detroit-Area TRUs
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(...) Ahhh, the old 8-and-Van-Dyke shopping center. Lots of great Lego finds there. The TRU has always had that "time warp" quality about it. When I came out of my dark ages in '97, they still had sets there from '94. I got my Star Hawk II at that (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) So far the score is... Targets at 50% off: 2 Targets at 30% off: 3 One I hit today still had a couple of trains on the shelf at 50-off. wooHoo ! Ray (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) I can concur on some of these observations... it appears that TRUs had the 'no available shelf space for these items' boxed away in the storeroom for the holidays. That includes all kind of one-offs and other strange old stuff. Check your (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Weird Find at Detroit-Area TRUs
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Hi folks, It looks like it's cleaning day at some of the TRUs; I found something very, very weird at 7 mile and Middlebelt (Livonia): a pail full of polybag set 3744, the My Own Train Green Kit. No documentation, no instructions, no context (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Premature Discount Wackiness at 8 Mile and Van Dyke Target (FOTM? :) )
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(...) ...Including, as I found out on Saturday the 5th, some stores going full-bore to 75% off. I happened by 8 Mile and Van Dyke (Detroit) to check out the inventory, saw a load of good sets including a bunch of Imperial Shuttles and Watto's (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) While at Target today, I was told that Wednesday was the next day to adjust Toy clearances. The shelves were reset today as forcasted by Lugnet. And to my surprise several sets reappeared to the inventory. :) Maybe Wednesday will be a very (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Newer Sets Sighted at Target!
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I haven't seen too much mentioned about some of the newer sets being seen. I was at my local Target today (in Texas) and they had on the shelves the new Alpha team sets such as "Ogel Underwater Base" and "At Command Patrol"! They also had the Star (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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