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Re: NBA at Toys R Us
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lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.sports
Date: 
Wed, 25 Aug 2004 20:48:58 GMT
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Bruce Hietbrink wrote:
Hi all,

Toys R Us is pretty much giving away the NBA 3 fig packs at $1.49 each.

I agree that 1.49 USD is "giving away" by TRU standards. However many many
Dollar General stores in various places I have checked had scads of these 3 fig
packs at 1.00 USD. Unfortunately it seemed like often any one store would have a
lot of one pack and none of any of the others.

Even at 1.00 I have a hard time seeing a use for very many of these. In my view
LEGO may possibly have overpaid for the license, this line hasn't seemed to move
as well as they might have hoped at regular retail.

But then, I'm not much of a sports fan and the pieces in the NBA sets aren't as
useful for other things as some of the other themes (unlike many of the soccer
sets for example)



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  Re: NBA at Toys R Us
 
(...) Fully agree with all these points. Most DG stores have 2 or 3 (out of 8 sets). I know of one store which has 6 different ones. The fig packs are functionally useless unless you are collecting the cards or you want plenty of 'extras' for you (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.sports)
  Re: NBA at Toys R Us
 
(...) The NBA fig packs have their (admittedly limited) uses. The kids at Brickfest loved my tree made with basketball arms: (URL) Marc Nelson Jr. (20 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.sports, FTX)
  Re: NBA at Toys R Us
 
I'm a little surprised that these didn't do better based on the fact that Lego teamed up with Upper Deck on this venture. They are one of the premier brands in collectable sports cards. (And for those of you that haven't heard of them, their (...) (20 years ago, 27-Aug-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.sports)

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  NBA at Toys R Us
 
Hi all, Toys R Us is pretty much giving away the NBA 3 fig packs at $1.49 each. I saw this at two different stores and bought up several so I can diversify my minifig populations. KB also seems to be trying to clean out the basketball sets--several (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.sports)

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