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Re: Round Australia in 3000 stores...
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Sat, 15 Jul 2000 09:43:07 GMT
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I found a place in Tasmania and Victoria that had alot of that stuff, not anymore
though.

Yep, 4551's used to be discounted to $50 AUD. When you then sold them for $230
USD it meant you could buy a whole lot more lego. I traded two 4551's for a mib
4558, those were the days.

Mark H.


Santosh Bhat wrote:

> In lugnet.org.au, Mark Harrison writes:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > This sounded like a great idea when it was first put forward but, lets
> > be honest, if you find the holy grail of lego shops with stock going
> > back 20 years in practically every theme and still forsale at the price
> > it came out at up to 20 years ago, are you going to tell anyone.
> 
> I'd strongly doubt that such a place exists in Australia. I'd say you'r emuch
> more liekly to find bits and pieces in all sorts of odd places. Like in '96
> when i saw Clints Crazy Bargains selling the following
> 
> 12v Electric Points (right and Left) for only $12
> Crocodile Loco's for $50
> Blue Hoppers for $12
> 12V Train lighting sets for $5
> and monorail extension sets for $15 or so.
> 
> Unfortunately I wasn't aware of how elusive these items were then and didn't
> get much only one croc and one hopper and some 12v stuff :(
> 
> I still dream of seeing things like this!
> 
> Santosh



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Ohmigosh, what an opportunity! You must have been pretty happy with that! Finding a way to subsidise purchasing - now that would be good. (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jul-00, to lugnet.org.au)

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(...) I'd strongly doubt that such a place exists in Australia. I'd say you'r emuch more liekly to find bits and pieces in all sorts of odd places. Like in '96 when i saw Clints Crazy Bargains selling the following 12v Electric Points (right and (...) (26 years ago, 15-Jul-00, to lugnet.org.au)

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