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Re: Cool new playtable
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Wed, 24 Dec 2003 13:43:54 GMT
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In lugnet.org.us.indylug, Thomas Garrison wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, David "Fuzzy" Gregory wrote:
> 
> >     While browsing in Sam's Club today, I saw a new LEGO playtable.  I know that
> > we decided against having a playtable at GATSes (Is that the plural of GATS?),
> > but there might be some other place we could use it, PLUS it's so cool that we
> > might just want to get one for ourselves.
> >     The table is sort of triangular and has 3 small wooden chairs.  It comes
> > with 1200 pieces, but the box didn't have any pictoral inventory.  The stuff
> > shown on the picture on the front of the box looked like Designer Set pieces.
> > The coolest part is that the table comes with 3 large (48X48 stud) baseplates.
> > There's 1 yellow, 1 red and 1 blue.  This might be our last chance to get blue
> > baseplates.
> 
> Blue baseplates.  Excellent.
> 
> Do you have a set number for this playtable, or any pictures?  The only
> playtable at samsclub.com appears to be a clone, and square.


I saw this same thing up on ebay a few weeks ago.  It definitely looks like
something that Lego made--it's got the Make and Create graphics on it, and I
couldn't spot a set number on the pictures.  Here's the ebay link (auction now
closed, so it may be up for a few more days until it auto-deletes):

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3165209999&category=1186

I took one look and my jaw dropped...once for the product....then for the asking
price of 250 bucks....

Scott Lyttle



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  Re: Cool new playtable
 
(...) Thanks for finding this, looks like a legitimate product to me. Given that it includes 4 pieces of actual furniture, 250 is not a totally outrageous price(1) (although I'd be curious to see what it costs if you were to just buy it in a store (...) (23 years ago, 26-Dec-03, to lugnet.org.us.indylug, lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.market.shopping)

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(...) Blue baseplates. Excellent. Do you have a set number for this playtable, or any pictures? The only playtable at samsclub.com appears to be a clone, and square. (23 years ago, 24-Dec-03, to lugnet.org.us.indylug, lugnet.admin.database)

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