|  |  | Kraft Mac&Cheese Cheesasaurus Rex® 
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| Howdy- While looking at the Lego Club site, I discovered a Kraft® Mac&Cheese Promo. At the Kraft® website they have instruction to build Cheesasaurus Rex® (The Kraft Mac&Cheese mascot) out of Lego® blocks: (URL) I found most interesting was this (...)   (26 years ago, 3-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo) 
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|  |  | Re: more on McDonalds promo sets 
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| (...) I can tell you exactly what this is. It is called evil exploitive toy piracy. I collect Star Wars toys and see this kind of stuff all the time. This is one of three types of sellers: One, it is someone who is an employee within a distribution (...)   (26 years ago, 3-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.promo) 
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|  |  | 1999 UK McDonalds Promo sets? 
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| Hi all in the good old US of A! or anywhere else for that matter - Just in case you were'nt aware I thought I'd let you know that the UK are due to get 9 (nine) McDonalds promo sets in December this year. These are different to the current US ones? (...)   (26 years ago, 3-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo) 
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|  |  | Re: McD set numbers 
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| Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:381f4329.249787...net.com... (...) Thanks for the clarification. As you say, the numbers to see to be somewhat arbitrarily allocated. (...) The scans of these is quite clear, so I think (...)   (26 years ago, 3-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo) 
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|  |  | McDonald's Chicken-Mobile 
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| What can I say? It has a chicken on the front of it and looks like a formula one, more or less. I am sure its the coolest promotion McDonald's has ever run. I dunno, with all the basic sets I see around, all the baseplates that come with those sets, (...)   (26 years ago, 3-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo) 
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|  |  | Re: Mc Donalds Duplo 
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| hsadm2.jgonzale@emai...tate.ut.us (Joseph Gonzalez) wrote in <FKJD0F.EI1@lugnet.com>: (...) According to the pause database, it was called "Play Pak" in 1998: (URL) Specially made for BLOCKBUSTER video rental stores in the U.S. A limited time offer (...)   (26 years ago, 3-Nov-99, to lugnet.duplo, lugnet.promo) 
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|  |  | Re: McDonalds Info 
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| (...) My local WM-McDs finally got set #3 today. I bought a few. When I got home I compared a pink plate to the two (or is it three) pinks used in Belville 5870 'Pretty Playland'. This Belville set has a poor box, but all the baggies are sealed. (...)   (26 years ago, 3-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.promo) 
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|  |  | Re: more on McDonalds promo sets 
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| Check out Greatbuyz@aol.com as an Ebay seller - looks almost the same as this twosix person... Very interesting - do you think McDonald's Knows about such things? GeneW EugweCoral Eugwe@yahoo.com    (26 years ago, 3-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.promo) 
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|  |  | Re: McD set numbers 
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| (...) yep (...) 2069 (...) yep (...) 1995. Go figure that one. I don't know about the rest, don't have them yet. (...) Steve    (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo) 
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|  |  | Re: McDonald's Promo Set #2 
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| Mike Walsh <mike_walsh@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:FKBpCI.5CL@lugnet.com... (...) I picked up 3 of these last night. My son and I had just eaten dinner, so I asked the McD lady to hold the hamburgers and toss in an extra set--and she did. (...)   (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo, lugnet.general) 
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|  |  | Re: stupid question 
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| (...) That's odd. Mine shows the baffling icons *and* the text...hmmm. LFB.    (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.promo) 
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|  |  | Re: stupid question 
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| The buttons are smaller as icons and I need the real estate. Or so I claim. (...)    (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.promo) 
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|  |  | A little more info on McDonald's sets 
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| Ok. I did a little badmouthing of McD's before, so I'm posting this partially as penance. I went by McD's a few days ago (Saturday, to be specific) and went about the task of attempting to buy some of the sets. I noted that this McD's (which is not (...)   (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo) 
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|  |  | Re: stupid question 
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| (...) Kevin, you're a geek after my own heart. The very first thing I do with any new Netscape profile is turn the buttons into text. Cheers, - jsproat    (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.promo) 
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|  |  | Re: McDonalds Info 
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| (...) 'Piece Out of Other Pieces', ie, a single part which should have been several pieces. Anything from a 5-high brick to a BURP (Big Ugly Rock Piece) to a Town Jr helicopter landing skid. A related term is SPUD-Single Purpose, Useless, (...)   (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo) 
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|  |  | Re: stupid question 
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| (...) I looked at my Netscape bar and wondered why it ddn't look like what Larry said... and realised it's because I have it set to text instead of icons. Mine says intuitive things like "New Msg" and "Reply" instead of showing baffling icons :) (...)   (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.promo) 
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|  |  | Re: McDonald's Happy Meals Sets -- modified parts 
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| (...) I just assembled Set #2 and looked closely at the slope. The printing is some kind of transfer, not the usual LEGO printing. I suspect the smooth slope was designed to be a useable surface for these transfers. This will probably set a trend (...)   (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo) 
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|  |  | Re: McD set numbers 
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| I got a couple of #2s yesterday. Like #1 there is no prominent set numbering on the front or back. The tiny number on the bottom of the back is '2069/4125055'. Ray (...)    (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo) 
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|  |  | McD set numbers  [DAT] 
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| From the scans at the McD site mentioned here, I believe the set numbers are as follows: 1 2032 2 2065 ? 3 2075 ? 4 ? 5 2045 6 2047 7 1845 8 2025 Can anyone confirm this/fill in the blanks? Thanks Huw    (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo) 
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|  |  | Re: stupid question 
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| Weren't you the guy who told us you were a "professional" web designer? Maybe I'm misremembering but... Anyone who's a pro at the web like you told us you were ought to know the basics of using a newsreader. Starting a new thread is newsreader (...)   (26 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.promo) 
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