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Re: Summer Shop at Home Catalog just arrived!!
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lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping
Date: 
Mon, 3 Jul 2000 16:39:37 GMT
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   The 8458 looks fantastic to me, but I still don't get the price.

   8448:  1408 pieces, $130 MSRP
   8458:  1412 pieces, $170

   Am I missing something?


In lugnet.general, Kyle D. Jackson writes:
In lugnet.general, Bianca Nebab writes:
It's 1412 pieces.

Whoops, I just noticed that the original post said over 1400 pieces,
not 1800.  Guess I was a little more tired than I thought after
that roadtrip.  So it beats out the UCS X-Wing for parts count.
Man, that's one big car model!  Time to start saving more nickels
for when it arrives..., assuming it arrives..., I've yet to have
seen the UCS X-Wing.




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  Re: Summer Shop at Home Catalog just arrived!!
 
(...) Go to www.Lego.com, it is listed as "limited edition", Thats where the extra cost comes from! (just like the ucs x-wing) Daniel (24 years ago, 3-Jul-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping)
  Re: Summer Shop at Home Catalog just arrived!!
 
(...) Maybe it's because there are more big pieces in 8458? One of those funky body panels is going to cost a lot more than a simple friction peg. The 8448 has 8 of the body panels. It looks like the 8458 has 18,+/-2. And the silvery plastic may be (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping)

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  Re: Summer Shop at Home Catalog just arrived!!
 
(...) Whoops, I just noticed that the original post said over 1400 pieces, not 1800. Guess I was a little more tired than I thought after that roadtrip. So it beats out the UCS X-Wing for parts count. Man, that's one big car model! Time to start (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jul-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping)

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