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(...) A great quote for this thread! I am always partial to the wisdom of Lewis (one of Ireland's greats ; ) God Bless, Nathan Visit my brickshelf gallery: (URL) (pic=link) (18 years ago, 9-Oct-06, to lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
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"Sid Mark Dinsay" <onedaycnn@aol.com> wrote in message news:J6uEFt.MJA@lugnet.com... (...) A few things to remember: 1. TLG probably don't want to seen as making competition for BrickLink users. 2. TLG literally manufacture, bag, weigh, sort, and (...) (18 years ago, 9-Oct-06, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) This pricing system is a bit of a rip-off, if you think about the number of the same bricks that could be stuffed into those Lego cups. As BrickLink puts prices on some of these items to shame! :-) (18 years ago, 9-Oct-06, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Yeah, they've got almost enough to do a useful roof-- but no genuine peak pieces! (apart from (URL)) On the plus side, you can sort of make do with what is available. With no peaks. And flimsy construction of concave corners that look a little (...) (18 years ago, 6-Oct-06, to lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
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I wonder how many kids are going to make the mistake of mixing "earth blue" with "bright blue". My heart skipped a beat momentarily with the "2x2 outside corner" bricks, only to be let down... they're DARK BLUE. It's not as though TLG has an entire (...) (18 years ago, 5-Oct-06, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) (URL) was looking at the links that take up most of the page on the link given in the original post: (URL) "Bricks & Pieces By Shape Categories" that overwhelms the tiny text link above it that has all the old part sets in it. Maybe they (...) (18 years ago, 4-Oct-06, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) the newness. I was confused at first too. Tim (18 years ago, 4-Oct-06, to lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
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(...) I am not seeing anything new here - other than the front page and what they are calling it. I spot checked 1 or 2 items in each category and each one has been for sale for a few years now according to Bricklink. Looks like the same stuff that (...) (18 years ago, 4-Oct-06, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) I hadn't seen that... even more to my liking, I saw both 9V parts (bogie plates), and *Technic*!! Not a lot yet, but at least some. (18 years ago, 4-Oct-06, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Wasteful indeed. I bought 20 copies of Tim Goulds dark red wall (about 112 dark red 1x2 bricks in each). Each time I also rec'd bunch of factory boxes. (which went right into the recycle bin). Interestingly, I ordered these 10 at a time, and (...) (18 years ago, 4-Oct-06, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) I bet they noticed that a large number of customers were using the Factory this way, and figured this was more efficient. I myself bought a couple of the engineer minifig "model" that someone had posted, and the tiny 4 part bag came packaged (...) (18 years ago, 4-Oct-06, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Wow - excellent news! This is pretty much want I wanted from Factory - BrickLink via TLG. Thanks for pointing this out, Jonathan. Marc Nelson Jr. (URL) Marc's Creations>> (18 years ago, 4-Oct-06, to lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
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I don't recall seeing this anywhere. Looks like through factory, you can now buy bricks w/o making a creation. (URL) Jonathan (18 years ago, 4-Oct-06, to lugnet.market.shopping) !!
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(...) it also appears to be a limit of three. if you buy six, you still only get one free. Darren (18 years ago, 27-Sep-06, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Not a bad sale, but be careful of their MSRPs. For example, the 6502's real MSRP is $10, not $19.99: (URL) (18 years ago, 27-Sep-06, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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Toys R Us is having a buy 2 get 3rd free sale on select lego sets: (URL) Exo-force, Knights Kingdom, and Bionicle. (18 years ago, 27-Sep-06, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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NWBrickCon is very fast approaching - less than three weeks away! If you want a table to sell at the Brick Bazaar this year and have not already reserved one though your conference registration, please email me right away to reserve space - there (...) (18 years ago, 17-Sep-06, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.events, lugnet.market.brickshops, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.services) !
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1-800-835-4386 (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). 5463 Play Train 15.00 7.50 5464 Play Plane 7.00 3.50 5504 DUPLO Airplane 10.00 5.00 8757 (...) (18 years ago, 12-Sep-06, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.announce.lsahs)
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Seems nobody posts clearance finds much anymore. I guess it's because there are fewer of them than the past, or maybe because the commercial factor is on everyone's mind. Anyway, Wal-Mart, of the shoddy shelves, has clearanced the $50 Batwing <set: (...) (18 years ago, 11-Sep-06, to lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
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You know, there was a class-action lawsuit against KB for artificially inflating MSRP to make it seem like their discount was larger... Perhaps someone should remind TRU of that, and warn that KB lost that one... (...) (18 years ago, 9-Sep-06, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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