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Re: 6977 Arachnoid Star Base
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Thu, 28 Oct 1999 15:29:15 GMT
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Paul,
I suppose as you were typing your long question about the 6977, you
missed (1) Joseph's review of that same set. I haven't opened mine yet - it
doesn't appear all that interesting, but his review tempts me to open and
build the thing, then use the pieces to make something else. I'd buy a lot
at $5, maybe only one or two at $50 or more.
1 - according to my reader, his post was ten minutes prior to yours.
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John
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Paul Baulch wrote in message ...
>
> You know, if there is one universal law I have seen for many, many years, • it
> is that heavily discounted Lego moves. It gets bought. I have seen the
> Technic Space Shuttles get discounted, and they got snapped up, despite
> being still costing almost as much as anything else on the shelves.
>
> But I have seen one thing that defies this law and it shocks me to the very
> core. A Space Lego set that can be put at 50% off and still not move, not
> after weeks, even after the Space Shuttles are long gone.
>
> The 6977 Arachnoid Star Base. Three times have I come in to the store. • Three
> times have I said to myself, "it's Space Lego, it's at half price, it's got
> Space Lego parts in it, I'll buy it". Three times have I walked into the
> Lego aisle at Toys'R'Us and resolutely walked up to the Arachnoid Star • Base.
> Three times have I looked at the set, picked it up in its box, held it in • my
> hands, turned it over, look at the designs on it, wondered what pieces were
> hidden under its shell, and peered through the cellophane at the pieces
> inside. It always ends the same. I walk away empty-handed.
>
> Hideous. Utterly hideous.
>
> If they were selling them at twenty dollars I would not buy them. If they
> were selling them for five dollars I would think longer, but probably still
> not buy them. If they were selling them for ONLY A DOLLAR, I would buy a
> thousand of them and take them to Billund and sit down in front of the Lego
> offices and build every single one of them and stage an alien invasion of
> Lego HQ. If they asked me what I was doing, I would say, "we seek vengeance
> against our creator". Then I'd be escorted off the premises.
>
> I have had two dreams.
>
> In the first dream, I see an Arachnoid Star Base before me. I open its
> shell, and I see that the vehicle is larger on the inside than on the
> outside. Its interior is studded with dark gray slopes, plates, dishes,
> cones and all manner of wondrous and special pieces.
>
> In the second dream, I see an Arachnoid Star Base before me. I open its
> shell, and I see a giant Rock Raiders chassis piece.
>
> Which dream foretells the future? Does the Arachnoid Star base hold
> something within its vile exterior which a Space Lego builder would find
> useful?
>
> I await the answer of a great and mighty oracle. Barring that, anyone who's
> bought one will do.
>
> Paul
> [My page: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shuttle/5168/ Update soon! ]
>
>
>
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| John DiRienzo wrote in message ... (...) Yeah, and it's the middle of the night over here - I was real spooked when I looked back and saw my question answered, I can tell you! Especially when I was joking around pitching my question in that silly (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| You know, if there is one universal law I have seen for many, many years, it is that heavily discounted Lego moves. It gets bought. I have seen the Technic Space Shuttles get discounted, and they got snapped up, despite being still costing almost (...) (25 years ago, 28-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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