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Re: Space Shuttle Set for Sale at ZanyBrainy!
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Fri, 10 Dec 1999 22:50:22 GMT
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Dave Morgan <dmorg@inficad.=saynotospam=com>
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The store in Phoenix, AZ has a huge stack of them right by the door.
Thank you for the tip!
I bought 4 of them :-) :-) :-)
<SNIP>
> Thanks Alan (and Dave Madden)! I've been drooling over this set for quite
> some time but I could never get around the $150 price tag. So, I just ran
> over to the Torrance CA store (at Hawthorne and Sepulveda for you local
> folks) and grabbed one for $75. I was *very* tempted to buy them all and
> make a buisness out of auctioning them off in a year or two but instead I
> decided to make this post...
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> I talked briefly to a (or the?) manager at the store and she said that they
> tried to get them last year but couldn't (or only got very few) and it
> sounded like this year they got more than they knew what to do with. There
> were a minimum of eight sets remaining (in two different locations) when I
> left a noon. That was as many as I could positively ID, it looked like
> there could have been that many more further back on the shelves. They also
> had the RIS, RDS, DDK, and expansion sets but all at full price.
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> For any of you non-technic lego fans they had a few interesting looking
> large sets on sale for 50% off as well.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> JT
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alan G. Smith [mailto:ags@POBOXES.COM]
> > Sent: Sunday, December 05, 1999 3:56 PM
> > To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com
> > Subject: Space Shuttle Set for Sale at ZanyBrainy!
> >
> >
> > For all of you who are looking for spare parts, the generally
> > thought of
> > BEST lego set for additional technic parts (as well as a
> > REALLY cool set) is
> > 8480 (the Technic Space Shuttle)
> >
> > ZanyBrainy has that on sale from Dec 5 to the 11th for 50%
> > off!!! That
> > means you can get the set for $75!
> >
> > I bought a new one on auction for about 155 less than a year
> > ago! Before
> > Lego *found* some additional ones. And it was worth it for
> > that price!
> >
> > My local ZanyBrainy had at least 10 sets left today! Hurry
> > in and get them
> > while they are there!!!
> >
> > --Alan
> >
> > P.S. No, I don't work for ZanyBrainy.
> > P.P.S. I just checked and they don't have these on their
> > Internet site.
> >
> > +---------------------------------------------------------
> > | Alan G. Smith
> > | ags@poboxes.com
> > | http://www.innovatus.com/ags
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| The Zany Brainy in Glendale has about 30 of the Space Shuttle sets still - I also was *very* tempted to buy many (if only money could be made of Lego bricks). In addition, they showed me next week's ad that had throwbots on sale 2 for $10 (still not (...) (25 years ago, 10-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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