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| Last night I hit a Walmart here in Colorado Springs, CO hoping to find the AT-ST or another TIE or Battle Droid Carrier and I noticed something was odd... Their Lego aisle was full of baby toys! How could this be? Did Walmart decide to stop stocking (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) So, if you bought it, and left it in the box, you'd have 50% of a C3P0 and 50% of a Stormtrooper, right? Steve (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Heisenberg would lead you to think so, wouldn't he? Statistically speaking, it's not a 50/50 chance that it's incorrectly boxed, is it? If only 5% of the time it's incorrectly boxed, then you have 95% storm trooper and 5% C3P0, but I'm not a (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Right... but since there's no conventional way of verifying the contents, you wouldn't know if it's a 3PO or a ST in there, which would make it quite difficult to sell to a collector of "sw rarities." If you were to open the box to verify the (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.starwars)
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| Actually it would be quite easy to verify, providing the boxes are of the same size. It would require having 1 of each set with the contents known. You would need a way to measure the weight of each of those sets very accurately and precisely. (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.starwars)
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| Well as a result of my curiosity I tried x-raying through a box. The Lego Technic bricks were visible and detailed enough to tell the parts inside. -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. who is now on his way to bed. (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) I believe the shooter has a metal spring part. But plating from the chrome and gold parts from the C3PO set are probably also going to set off the metal detector! Fredrik (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.starwars)
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