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Pitchforks (was Re: New Sets Report: New Jersey, USA)
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lugnet.market.shopping
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Sun, 9 Dec 2001 19:44:58 GMT
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> AT Navigator and ROV 4792 $9.99
> (And sorry, Richard, but I think those two are really very cool.)
Well, I haven't seen the new Cam set yet so I will have to withhold
judgement, but I am unlikely to be pursuaded by the numerous Jack Stoned
elements I am seeing there. I expect I will like the new Cam mini, though.
One of the many beefs I am having, beyond the stuff I already mentioned in
relation to the squid set, is the use of the Bionickles trident in the new
Alpha Team sets. I am pretty sure that minis cannot hold this oversized
trident even if it didn't look preposterously out of proportion to our
beloved minis. So while trans-antifreeze spears are cool, this is a missed
opportunity to bring back the pitchfork of old in black, trans-antifreeze,
trans-red, and maybe even the traditional brown on the castle side of the
equation. It would have been so easy to do this I think.
Why give us stuff we can't use and don't need, and then also deny us that
which would have seen actual utility in minifigure land?
A blow upon a bruise it is...
-- Hop-Frog
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Message is in Reply To:
 | | New Sets Report: New Jersey, USA
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| Hi, I visited two TRUs along the Route 1 corridor in central NJ today, and found that they have a fair number of 2002 sets now in stock, whereas four days ago they had nothing. I picked up the following: Ewok Attack 7139 $12.99 (This seems to be (...) (23 years ago, 9-Dec-01, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.starwars)
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