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Re: Yet another TRU heads-up
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lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au
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Thu, 2 Nov 2000 14:00:21 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Paul Baulch writes:
> Dropped by Chadstone TRU this evening and a sign out front proudly declared,
> "25% OFF ALL LEGO".
OH YEAH BABY!!!!
(sorry just been sissyfighting -- www.sissyfight.com)
Am I glad I haven't gone too crazy at GB's (hey -5% makes a difference!)
> After the excitement wore off I stood in the Lego section for half an hour
> agonising about what to buy and how much to spend. Sure enough, my funds
> were at an all-time low... d'oh!!!
That's what (wallet shaped) plastic's for!
> Almost bought another 8462 Tow Truck, at ~$75 they're an unbelievable
> bargain!!! There were a lot of them too, saw an adult walking off with one
> but there's still nary a dent in the huge pile. If I can think of a good
> project that uses twelve pneumatic pistons then I'll buy three more (if I
> can afford it).
Have you seen the two legged piston walker? it's a bonus on the half sized
super car page: http://www.bath.ac.uk/~ab8ten/lego.htm . Go Paul!!
> Ended up buying a few packs of 9V track, never seen that on special
> anywhere, $20 each seemed about as cheap as it was gunna get.
> Would have bought a couple more MTT's as they seemed a good buy at around
> $60, but I didn't know how many I already had... I've certainly got as many
> battle droids as I'd ever want :-)
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> So was it 25% off just for today? Two days? A week? Pop down to your local
> TRU and find out.... cross your fingers! And if anyone has any ideas on what
> sets we should all buy at this discount, let us know!
One that I vaguely recall is Mission Control for $70 - 25% = $52.50
(or a scintillating 11c a brick). So it's one of those, and a podrace (with
two more podracers next year, I just gotta), and some SW and that Racers set
and some Duplo train...
--DaveL (on a pre-work mission tomorrow!!)
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| Dave Low wrote in message ... (...) Yeah, maybe.... I seem to recall people also using pneumatic pistons as shock absorbers. Is this a good use of them? (...) $52.50 (...) set (...) Sadly, all the 6456's disappeared really quickly from Melbourne (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au)
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| Dropped by Chadstone TRU this evening and a sign out front proudly declared, "25% OFF ALL LEGO". After the excitement wore off I stood in the Lego section for half an hour agonising about what to buy and how much to spend. Sure enough, my funds (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au)
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