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Re: Page 7 of Spring S@H catalog
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lugnet.space
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Tue, 7 Mar 2000 15:26:11 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.database, Erik Olson wrote:
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> > ...<several more knowledgeable people try to fix the date of the big release>
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> My memory of seeing the first minifig spaceman is a summer memory, and it was
> before 1979 started. I guess it could have been a warm Texas December though!
> A kid up the block had got his first Rocket Launcher and mutilated and destroyed
> it before I ever saw it. A mutual friend came and told me this kid had a man
> with moveable arms (unlike my 1 solitary stiff guy.) I didn't believe it, until
> I picked a red astronaut torso out of the street tar. I found the amputated
> arms, too, and the legs chewed up by a dog, which didn't fit anymore. This kid
> destroyed all his toys, but maybe the dog helped that time. So, my memory
> records the complete destruction of a Space Set in 1978. I brought the torso
> home and wondered why the red stubby head was so small. It was really stupid
> looking.
Was this kid's name Sid, by any chance?
Steve
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| (...) My memory of seeing the first minifig spaceman is a summer memory, and it was before 1979 started. I guess it could have been a warm Texas December though! A kid up the block had got his first Rocket Launcher and mutilated and destroyed it (...) (25 years ago, 7-Mar-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.admin.database)
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