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(...) Yeeeek! Best Lock will suck at best. Those Best Lock sets look great but are not very good in the brick quality dept. -- Hop-Frog (23 years ago, 27-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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Fellowship of the Ring blocks are clearanced at Target today. I found them at TRU in the Action Figure area, $20 for the small sets. Target had them next to the clone brands across from Lego. $10.40 for the small sets (reg $15.) (Battle at (...) (23 years ago, 26-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) minifigures: (...) magnets (...) levitate (...) Oh, sorry! See this post: (URL) just to make sure I've been clear about this, this apparatus didn't use all Lego. The electromagnet, the feedback circuit, the control circuit and the power supply (...) (23 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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Yes! More info please! (23 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) No, this all is very exciting! I would like more info on your project, Christopher-- My son would absolutely *love* to recreate your set-up! -John (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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Hey, everyone! Levitating nuts & bolts is fine, but I would rather be levitating minifigures: (URL) I did it: There is a building system called "MAGZ", which utilizes magnets and steel balls to build geometric shapes. I took the magnets (they are (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands) !
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Oops, my bad. I meant Woodbridge (the one next to Pearl). I know before they had them with the other LEGO, but they've now completely moved them into the (normally abandoned) HP section. "Mr L F Braun" <braunli1@pilot.msu.edu> wrote in message (...) (23 years ago, 17-Dec-01, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) There's a TRU in Edison? The Wal-Mart in Piscataway has them with the regular merch. Same with the rest of the TRUs I've seen, save that one next to Pearl up by the 1/9 interchange. I managed to get some Gringott's! :) But they most (...) (23 years ago, 17-Dec-01, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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Ugh. Megabloks suck. (23 years ago, 17-Dec-01, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) I have seen the HP LEGO both with the HP stuff and with the LEGO stuff. Then there was Walmart when it first came out, in it's own aisle stand. In my shopping over the past few days I've seen very little HP LEGO. Frank (23 years ago, 17-Dec-01, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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"Erik Olson" <erik@olson.pair.com> wrote in message news:GoGuJ4.1w1@lugnet.com... (...) heard (...) In every store I've been to that carries Harry Potter LEGO, it was stuck in the Harry Potter merch aisle rather than the regular LEGO. It happened (...) (23 years ago, 17-Dec-01, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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Today I understand why Fortress TRU has a security battallion: Holiday shopper crowds in Times Square. Fortress TRU is the new flagship store in New York. Today I hoped to glimpse a Cloud Car, but only some other small 2002 Sw sets (and Alpha Team) (...) (23 years ago, 17-Dec-01, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) I picked up one of the $10 sets yesterday, and threw it together. I really liked it, and the final model looks pretty cool. The instructions claim that the paint can be removed with either some warm damp cloth or by scraping it off with the (...) (23 years ago, 10-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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thanks for the info, dave! i'll be looking forward to seeing these models hit utah. in the meantime your information and pics for the sets should hold me over until i can actually get one in my hands. (missiles that actually shoot....COOL!) ..joseph (...) (23 years ago, 10-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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there's three new block-bots out toxic - olive/orange color combo with a gas-fire-thrower like appendage torch - red/yellow combo with a flame thrower arm spy - blue/black/silver combo, i didn't notice what he has interesting stuff and they were (...) (23 years ago, 10-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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Dave! Thanks for the excellent review--I've been seeking these things out. The packaging and layout look really very good, better than MB has put out to date--though I wonder if they still have that odd feel to them. It is, however, the guaranteed (...) (23 years ago, 9-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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Drop what you're doing and go buy this $20 set. It includes 412 pieces (a shade less than a nickel per piece) mostly in dark grey and black, with a number of silver-grey and trans-orange, too. Also included is a pilot, two new gatling-style machine (...) (23 years ago, 6-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) I just picked up the U240 set because it has the cool newish 10 x 2 x 8 windshield in trans-orange, as well as a bunch of other trans-orange elements. It also has a better piece count of 412 versus 300-something for the J-227. The cones are (...) (23 years ago, 5-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: MegaBloks MECHA - For Shame, LEGO, For Shame!
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(...) Ah!! MegaBloks?! HERESY! HERESY! (23 years ago, 4-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Megabloks sighted
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Pink and purple Megabloks were seen coupling with faded old blue Lego bricks on my mousepad today. Additional, muted, colors were joining in from both sides. It seems the older Lego types no longer get along with the new generation, but they play (...) (23 years ago, 5-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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