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(...) Nonsense! There is a use for these. Take the heads off, get some alcohol wipes and wipe those faces off. Now you have some brown and flesh colored 1x1 (minifig head) round bricks. These are useful as architectural embellishments. I've got (...) (20 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.sports, FTX)
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(...) 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)
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| | Re: NBA at Toys R Us
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(...) TRU in USA is way behind the times on this clearance pricing; they stayed at $2.48 for far too long. As Lar and Ray pointed out, Dollar General in the USA (the store with the yellow signs) has been overstocked on NBA fig packs at $1.00 for (...) (20 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.sports)
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(...) 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)
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| | Re: NBA at Toys R Us
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(...) 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 (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.sports)
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| | NBA at Toys R Us
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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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| | US S@H Specials, Aug 25 - 31, 2004
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(URL) (hit 1 when the recording starts, then hit 1 again when the S@H Specials recording starts, to skip the listings and get to a representative) 4Juniors/Jack Stone/Max Creator 4654 Tanker Truck $14.99 $ 7.50 4652 Tow Truck $ 9.99 $ 5.00 (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.announce.lsahs)
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| | New retail Announced for California
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Courtesy of Google News Alerts: (URL) LEGO Systems, Inc., the Americas division of one of the world's best-known toy brands, prepares to open three new LEGO(R) brand retail stores in the San Francisco Bay Area. The growth will bring the total number (...) (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.loc.us.ca, lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
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| | Re: Need 2500 1x4 black
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(...) There are 940 @.054 available in my shop with free shipping: (URL) are 733 @.07 available in this shop, also with free shipping: (URL) the full 2500 your looking for, but a good start. Julie (20 years ago, 22-Aug-04, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Surprise finds at Fairview Mall
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(...) Andrew, is it the one near Waterloo? My brother is moving in to U of Waterloo in two weeks and it's only minutes away so that's my chance for some serious shopping! (...) I picked up two of those $5 cloud cars at Zellers. Can't resist a sweet (...) (20 years ago, 22-Aug-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.ca.on.tor, FTX)
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Hey all, Over the past few days and possibly weeks the Bricklink administration has been suspending stores for seemingly minor violations with the TOS of the Bricklink site. So far Larry p. has been suspended and now completely removed from the (...) (20 years ago, 22-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.market.brickshops, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.market.services) !!
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| | Re: Surprise finds at Fairview Mall
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I was in the Bricks and Blocks outlet in St. Jacobs last week and they had some of these sets in stock as well. The metroliner was $120 and I think the C3P0/R2 combo was $40. They are also had a number of the "my own train" cars as well the caboose (...) (20 years ago, 22-Aug-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.loc.ca.on.tor, FTX)
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| | Need 2500 1x4 black
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I am in need of at least 2500 1x4 black bricks Tommy Armstrong www.brickengraver.com (20 years ago, 22-Aug-04, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Surprise finds at Fairview Mall
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I found the these at Toys Toys Toys today at Fairview Mall (Don Mills/Sheppard, Toronto): [LEGOSet 10001] $200 [LEGOSet 10026] $70 [LEGOSet 10018] something like $170 [LEGOSet 65081] $70 I have never saw any of these in person before except 10018. I (...) (20 years ago, 22-Aug-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.loc.ca.on.tor, FTX)
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| | Re: Lots of Bulk Packs on SALE at S@H (USA & Canada)
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And be careful using that link some items JUMP IN PRICE vs the normal 'web specials'. K1376 went from around 24-25 CAD to 37 CAD, not so nice!!!! (20 years ago, 22-Aug-04, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Lots of Bulk Packs on SALE at S@H (USA & Canada)
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(...) I received my email on August 12th. (...) Looking at the email address they used, I'm guessing this is something sent to folks who have ordered from Shop At Home, but I can't say 100%. (...) You mean... what you 'need', right? :) You can never (...) (20 years ago, 21-Aug-04, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | RE: Lots of Bulk Packs on SALE at S@H (USA & Canada)
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Hi! Thanks for posting...when were people in Canada informed about this? Is there a special mail list that I should be subscribing to? Time to decide what I need/want... Bob -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com (...) (20 years ago, 21-Aug-04, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Lots of Bulk Packs on SALE at S@H (USA & Canada)
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(...) Okay, I have the link now (thanx Allan!), for anyone in Canada having trouble accessing the sale: (URL) #203, Ontario, Canada (20 years ago, 21-Aug-04, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Lots of Bulk Packs on SALE at S@H (USA & Canada)
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(...) Does anyone from Canada still have the email they received with the link to this sale? If so, please post it, I pulled a Homer and shift-deleted mine. But when I received it and followed the link directly from that email, I got to see all of (...) (20 years ago, 21-Aug-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: Bulk Packs in New Colors Yet? - BROWN
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(...) I took advantage of the big sale as well and recently ordered a number of gray and dark gray brick bulk packs (the 50 count 2x4 packs and the 100 count 2x2 packs)...all were of the old colors. Jonathan (20 years ago, 20-Aug-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.color)
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