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(...) Well I am jsut on the other side of Lake Michigan in Wisconsin and we have no new legos. I am in Kenosha just 60 miles north of Chicago. I am about ready to pull hair out for my new legos. The shelves are bare in the TRU by me but no new (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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(...) I'm here in Philadelphia, PA and I went searching today with the recent sightings in Michigan. However, there aren't any out yet. The TRU's here also have empty shelves but they gave me the same excuse they've been giving me for weeks, i.e. (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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(...) 6095 Royal Joust showed up in a TRU in Salem, NH. I found it 12/13 but the shelf tag had a date of 12/10. It was the only 2000 set there, but I saw the LEGO lady and she said that more might show up tomorrow... J (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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They're out in force in Ohio. I've found a few sets at the Meijers in Tylersville, and this evening I found all of the sets at the Meijer in Forest Park. And they're ringing up at 25% off to boot . . . Tim (URL) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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(...) I'm up in Allentown, and I too searched a number of stores today, including Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Bradlee's, Ames, Kohl's, Toys 'R' Us, KB Toyworks, and Zany Brainy. I found no 2000 sets at all. I did get word from the LEGO rep at TRU that they (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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(...) no (...) ready (...) but (...) for (...) .. (...) I just stopped at the Meijers in East Lansing, MI, on E. Grand River, and picked up the A-Wing, Flash Speeder, and the Technic Battle Droid! The only thing I need now is the Technic Destroyer (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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(...) no (...) ready (...) but (...) for (...) .. (...) I just stopped at the Meijers in East Lansing, MI, on E. Grand River, and picked up the A-Wing, Flash Speeder, and the Technic Battle Droid! The only thing I need now is the Technic Destroyer (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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(...) I *knew* there was a hidden cost to leaving Michigan State for the East Coast...sigh. Why did it have to be this, O cruel, capricious fate? Why? WHY!?!? *whimper* -Lindsay (a transplanted Spartan and Michigander all in one) --- Lindsay (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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(...) Oh, come now. I have been buying the new sets for the model year since I can remember. Meijer and TRU always put the new sets out because they run out of most LEGO the last two weeks and they want the cash to keep on flowing. She should know (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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I don't think that the Destroyer Droid is scheduled to ship until February (so it may show up in January, but probably not December). BTW, for anyone finding the sets out of stock at Meijer, you can get rainchecks at the sale price. I did this for (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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(...) Another weird thing is the arctic sets rang up as LEGO, not DUPLO LEGO. Looking over my receipt, some are called LEGO, some are called DUPLO LEGO, and some are called LEGO DUPLO. Only one of the items had a star next to it, meaning sale: 7124, (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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(...) you (...) Wow, you work like 10 minutes from my home in Hamilton! I have seen sets arrive almost 2 weeks after everyone else has them from the Michigan Meijers stores. We will just have to sit and wait. What local stores have you found that (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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Wow, 2000 sets at 25% discount, already!! Gaw'd I love Michigan! I'll have to check the Meijer's 2 miles from my house in St. Clair Shores..... Gary Istok (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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(...) It was in this week's sale flier (which I got in my Sunday newspaper). Right below the big blurb about Star Wars being on clearance, it plainly states "Star Wars LEGO 25% off" (I'm paraphrasing from memory). I stopped at the greeter desk in (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping)
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Tim Saupé <tgsaupe@aol.com> wrote in message news:FMprxH.2Dy@lugnet.com... (...) and if you didn't use the $$$ off coupons from Meijer.com, then you paid too much. (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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(...) Checked with the manager at my Meijers and all SW legos are supposed to be 25% off, even the new ones. He did says they wouldn't give out rain-checks for stuff they have not even received yet. Mine only had the Battle Droid and only 1 and it (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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(...) My arctic set doesn't say Duplo. All 4 I got rang up as just LEGO. (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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(...) Interesting. I know they are not network linked to the systems, because Meijer has different sales in different cities, depending on the competition. Scott S. (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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(...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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(...) scheduled to ship until February (...) December). Wasn't all of the 2000 Tenchnic Star Wars line due in Feb! (...) Meijer, you can get (...) I wonder if they will gve me a raincheck on the Destroyer Droid, even though it isn't out yet?!? Or (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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James, (...) I don't think its a few months lead-time, I think it is a few weeks if any. There have been a lot of LEGO sales everywhere the last few months, I wonder how the sales are doing? This is from a lot of stores, K-Mart, Target, etc. This is (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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(...) no (...) ready (...) but (...) for (...) .. (...) I am right in between you two, near Montgomeryville. I checked 2 wal-marts, 2 k-marts, 2 ames, 1 TRU, and 1 Target. Nothing yet. I am going to check my local Kohl's (And hope they are not (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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(...) My Meijer wouldn't let me use both. Well, sort of. Oh, never mind. It's too hard to explain the entire stupid situation. Let me just say this: I'm very happy with Kristin's ability to deal with people in customer-facing situations. Steve (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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(...) Success!! I don't know how close the two of you (Mike and Rob) are to Philly but I managed to find some sets at my local Walmart. They had a decent selection of SW, but not much of anything else: -Technic Battle Droid and Pit Droid -B-Wing, (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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(...) also (...) Zany (...) they (...) 2 (...) Went to my local Wal-mart. Got A-wing, B-wing, Gungan Patrol, Flash Speeder, Dessert Skiff, 1 Rock Raider fig pack, and the Artic Combo Set. They also had slave 1, technic battle droid, pit droid, (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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