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Re: June 2nd meeting, and news-bits
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Fri, 25 May 2001 18:21:36 GMT
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LEGO on sale at "Til Tuesday" stores. They have a meager assortment of Lego
System sets and several Throwbots marked down about 50% from retail. The
largest set they had was Insectoid Base which selling for $50.00. They also
had the Droid Developer set for $30.00 and several rare small sets.
Brian
----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Bitton <kzin@toast.net>
To: <lugnet.org.us.lugola@lugnet.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 2:09 PM
Subject: June 2nd meeting, and news-bits
> In lugnet.org.us.lugola, Robert Powell writes:
> > Hello Again,
> >
> > I received permission to use the conference center at my office. It has
> > tables and chairs for about 60 people but it's a little short on open • floor
> > space, so anyone bringing parts for trade will want to bring a blanket to
> > spreadout on a table. Here are the address and directions:
>
> Hey, that sounds really neat! Our own, temporary, Lego command center!
>
> Well, gosh-darn-it, I'm sure as shootin' gonna try to make this meeting!
> (Sorry, been watching too much "Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot" <Grin>)
>
> I was looking for a fellow LUGnut to carpool with for this meeting (I'm
> a little transportation-challenged right now), and LUGOLA member Jimmy
> offered to take me there. Thanks Jimmy! I'm very appreciative!
>
> So I look forward to meeting everyone for the first time, especially
> Bryce (and his monster mechs) and Brian (I've seen your awesome Star
> Wars stuff on the Web).
>
>
> In other news, I was recently at Downtown Disney and visited the Lego • Store
> there. My goodness, I've never seen so many Lego knick-knacks in one • place!!
> I wanted to get some Lego SW figures, but naturally, they were out of the
> Darth Vader/Emperor/Darth Maul 3-pack. Harrumph...
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>
> I was at E3 (the big videogame trade show) last weekend, and made sure to
> check out the Lego booth. They had Bionicles, Mindstorm, and Studio sets • on
> display. I also noticed some new dinosaur figures. While I was playing • with
> them, another trade show attendee commented that these Lego dinos were • part
> of a new line being released in Japan this year. He then pulled out a
> Japanese Lego catalog and let me see them for myself. I think there were
> 7 Lego dinosaurs, ranging from mostly blocks with a special head and tail
> (Ankylosaurus) to mostly special-made parts (Allosaurus or T-Rex).
> Hopefully, we'll see those here in 2002.
> Among the Lego games was one based on Harry Potter. I'm not kidding!
> I think Lego might be going a little too license-crazy...
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> That's the news, have a pleasant tomorrow.
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>
> Eric B. (aka Zrath The Lego Psychopath)
>
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| (...) After some head-scratching (I thought "Til Tuesday" was a band!), I found a couple of local "Tuesday Morning" stores and hit the one in Santa Monica (Santa Monica Blvd and 9th Street). Aside from the Insectoid base/spider-thing, they also had (...) (25 years ago, 26-May-01, to lugnet.org.us.lugola)
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| (...) Hey, that sounds really neat! Our own, temporary, Lego command center! Well, gosh-darn-it, I'm sure as shootin' gonna try to make this meeting! (Sorry, been watching too much "Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot" <Grin>) I was looking for a fellow (...) (25 years ago, 24-May-01, to lugnet.org.us.lugola)
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