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NYC Trawling for fun and Lego
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Sun, 2 Jun 2002 00:18:39 GMT
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Jonathan Lopes & I checked out my favorite out-of-the-way Lego shopping
hole. It is a great time capsule, a veritable Slow Glass of Lego, albeit
picked over. They still have Exploriens Starships. Many Star Wars sets but
no X-Wing or Snowspeeder. There was a lot of old Toolo with discount price
tags, but no rare Duplo. Many Aquazone sets, ResQ and Extreme Team sets at
full price.
Humorously, the old beaten-up Western sets that were unsaleable have been
replaced by tougher boxes of the reissues!
The Lego area is about 4 times its size now, which certainly leaves room for
all the new sets (I'm talking 2000 onward) and at last the unsaleable is in
the minority. But they are still giving room and board to Deluxe Explorien
Specials and UFO Masks, Extreme Racer rock SPUD special, and many fine
non-grassy roadplates. Plus a heaping helping of Rock Raiders, Arctic,
Mickey Mouse, Bionicle masks, overpriced Town Folks, Dino Transports, more
Naboo Swamp/Infiltrator specials than I can choke down, Drag Race Rally and
its ill-starred Town Jr spawn, Znap trial size baggies, enough Insectoids to
wreck a truck on an Indiana interstate, one beaten-up opened Falcon and a
pile of Knights Kingdom that time is about to forget. Plus a goulash of
unsuccessful Technic Play that may or may not have done time as hacky sacks.
Truly Lego reps spend more time at some stores than others.
I decided to give a good home to all the Ninja sets. 1998 was a good year
for that. Apparently somebody made that choice already for the last batch of
Desert and Jungle adventurers.
Our prize for striving to bring order to the filthy mess of unwanted,
trashed, stepped-on, mixed up Lego sets was a pair of "no price bargains"
from the manager: Jonathan got another Outback Airstrip (his steady diet)
for $8.90, I got a Wave Jump Racers for $9.90 that I had passed over a
half-dozen times before. We may go back and try for a Manager's Special on
the Exploriens Starships.
Most of the regular bricks in tubs were either shut up in overhead storage,
or placed in the Megablocks aisle.
The new sets are there too, nicely stacked in some instances. The new Island
Extreme sets look good, but there must have been no free shelf space when
they arrived so they were jammed in every which way, much like the fate of
Spider-Man studios seems to have been. Episode 2 sets were numerous at the
front register corral as well as the back lot.
-Erik
P.S. Yes I've thoroughly violated my no-Lego buying policy, but for crying
out loud, this was a rescue mission.
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: NYC Trawling for fun and Lego
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| wow! very well written Erik. I had a dream last night that we found a few X-wings but left them behind for some $8.40 priced MTT's because I liked the parts better..... Then I woke up... Best, Jonathan (who is still thinking about those Explorian (...) (22 years ago, 2-Jun-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
| | | Re: NYC Trawling for fun and Lego
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| Will someone please explain why people like the poster tell us of our Lego dreams come true, but withhold the info. Either tell us where to go or don't screw with our minds. If I said I knew where to get USC X-Wings at 18.40 a pieces and there were (...) (22 years ago, 2-Jun-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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