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An Uncommon Find?
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lugnet.market.shopping
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Mon, 23 Oct 2000 14:13:58 GMT
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Saturday I was rummaging through the usual suspects at a KB in hopes of a really
good bargain, and had almost conceded defeat when at the very back of the
"stacks" (this particular KB doesn't really shelf its Lego - it kind of stacks
them), something caught my eye just as I turned to leave...I had stumbled upon
Model Team 5561 for $40. Needless to say I purchased it. What seems uncommon
about this is that it is the European version, or atleast European packaging -
no element count, no model name, and a curious supplemental catalog listing
prices by various European countries only. I'm wondering how common it is to
find a European-packaged version here in the states?
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: An Uncommon Find?
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| (...) really (...) Actually, not common in the US, but common at KB as it turns out oddly enough... As I recall, the reason why US boxes have a piece count at all was to do with some legal issues or something? Hence, all the US boxes have piece (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
| | | Re: An Uncommon Find?
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| (...) KB (both online and brick-and-mortar) often has European sets (I've seen European model team, wild west, and fright knights at KB) ZB also has them sometimes (technic space shuttle, for example) I've seen one European set at WalMart, the (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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