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Re: Old sets being sold in new guise?
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Date: 
Mon, 21 May 2001 23:03:48 GMT
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Mark Herzberg writes:
> In lugnet.market.shopping, Aaron West writes:
> 
> > > 100 bucks says that this is the "July Surprise" spoken of here, there and
> > most everywhere.
> > I HOPE it is not just available to one select market, I'd like to buy here
> > in the good ol' US of A if I can.
> > Fingers crossed!!!
> > -Aaron-
> 
> I've got to say, at first I though, "Nah. Too good to be true." But now that
> I look at the sets closer and the packaging, I'm begining to think maybe
> this stuff is real. I mean, if it wasn't, why did they chose the 6280 and
> 6289 Pirate Ships? And the box to that tractor shovel TECHNIC set looks very
> professional. I dunno, with computers these days, anything is possible, but
> I'm going to go out on a limb here and say they look real to me. Let's hope.
> Wouldn't mind another G&WE!


Well, I don't know. Look at these things real quick. the pirate sets do not
have the piece count and the Armada flagship should have an Armda flag
instead of a pirate flag on the top right hand corner of the box. I am not
going to get excited just yet, until there is some proof from lego or some
other relyable source.



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  Re: Old sets being sold in new guise?
 
(...) not (...) Piece counts only appear on American boxes......... (25 years ago, 22-May-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)

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  Re: Old sets being sold in new guise?
 
(...) I've got to say, at first I though, "Nah. Too good to be true." But now that I look at the sets closer and the packaging, I'm begining to think maybe this stuff is real. I mean, if it wasn't, why did they chose the 6280 and 6289 Pirate Ships? (...) (25 years ago, 20-May-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)

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