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Re: How much are Blue soldiers worth?
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lugnet.pirates
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Mon, 1 May 2000 20:54:03 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> [snip]
> ... Loonies at auczilla have paid as much for a ... backpack
> as I do for the entire figure.
Now, wait a second, I'm one of those so-called loonies,
and I'd like to object (just as soon as I can figure out
how to get out of this straightjacket ;-)
The reason I was willing to pay a rather high price
on AucZilla for some of those Backpacks,
and the reason I'd (probably) do the same
for some Shako Hats, is that once I get a Trooper minifig,
whether Redcoat or Bluecoat, I'm not disassembling him!
("No disassemble! No disassemble!" -- trivia points
if you can give movie reference ;-)
Thus, if I'm not gonna disassemble a complete Trooper 'fig
(notice that I did *not* mention the Officer/Lieutenant 'figs...),
then the only way to get extra backpacks and/or shako hats
is to get them from other sources.
Now, you may ask *why* would I need extra shako hats,
and the answer is rather simple: I have *extra* Troopers
that are only *partially* complete; i.e., they're missing
their shako hats. (And, no, not quite all of them
started out as surplus Lieutenants... some of them, yes,
perhaps even *several*, but not quite *all* of 'em...)
And, as far as the backpacks go,
I'd like to be able to use brown backpacks with some
of my custom kit-bashed (modern/near-future) military 'figs.
I also use the dark grey backpacks (from the SW Speeder Bike sets),
but the military 'figs I make using dark grey torsos
look a whole lot better with a brown backpack
than with a dark grey backpack.
Thanks,
Franklin
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| (...) Aha! I knew I'd flush some of the deep-pocketed scoundrels out. :-) (...) Yes, but I figured out the false economy of that. You buy a Shako for $3. And a Backpack for $3. Six bucks. Or buy a complete figure for $5 (not that I pay that much), (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: How much are Blue soldiers worth?
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| (...) Just for the others that are curious, it all depends. I don't like to spend much over $3.50 for a soldier with shako, epaulettes, musket and backpack. It it's missing stuff, my price goes down. Loonies at auczilla have paid as much for a shako (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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