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Re: Weird Find at Detroit-Area TRUs
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lugnet.market.shopping
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Tue, 8 Jan 2002 06:30:15 GMT
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
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> Hi folks,
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> It looks like it's cleaning day at some of the TRUs; I found
> something very, very weird at 7 mile and Middlebelt (Livonia):
> a pail full of polybag set 3744, the My Own Train Green Kit.
> No documentation, no instructions, no context whatsoever, just
> about 150 polybags in a goofy giant green plastic beach pail.
> Please, someone tell me that I'm not going crazy--I had no idea
> what it was until I checked the number here, because TRU shows
> the SKU as a "Town Straight" for $8 a pop. (?)
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> The other TRU that really weirded me out was the TRU That Time
> Forgot, which is located in a plaza with my favorite Target in
> the whole world (8 Mile and Van Dyke, Detroit). They still have
> first-gen Adventurers, Insectoids, and UFO sets; if you want
> Sith Infiltrators for $15, they've got a mess of 'em, and several
> SW co-packs with the Gungan Sub and Naboo Swamp still at $30.
> Rock Raiders? Everywhere! (Some of these are in a secluded area
> near the registers, away from the main LEGO area, so sniff around).
> No 3744s, however, so at least it was only kind of bizarre.
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> (That's the same TRU where I found Unitron Star Hawk IIs last year.
> Oh so very, very strange.)
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> best
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> LFB
I can concur on some of these observations... it appears that TRUs had the 'no
available shelf space for these items' boxed away in the storeroom for the
holidays. That includes all kind of one-offs and other strange old stuff. Check
your local TRU. Look behind stuff and up on the risers. All kinds of stuff is
beginning to leak out.... like the Rain Dance Ridge I found the other day for
$15 :) Or the hapless TRU that found (!) several cases of Znap sets. Lucky
them.
Ray
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| Hi folks, It looks like it's cleaning day at some of the TRUs; I found something very, very weird at 7 mile and Middlebelt (Livonia): a pail full of polybag set 3744, the My Own Train Green Kit. No documentation, no instructions, no context (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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