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Re: Super Street sensation 8448
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Date: 
Mon, 15 Jan 2001 16:24:28 GMT
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The 8448 is included in the little shop at home catalog that came with the
new The Boss RoboRider I bought at Target this weekend. (The Indy Storm has an
overprint that it is not available.) The only other physical location I ever
saw them at was the outlet store in Potomac Mills Mall (they don't have any
on the shelf now). I bought two online from lego.com last month (and they came
in non-US boxes) but who knows how long that will last.

In lugnet.technic, Ray Kremer writes:
They probably stopped making them a year ago, left them in the S@H catalog as
long as they had a big stack of them in the warehouse, and are only down to a
handfull now.  It's still up at shop.lego.com until that last handfull is • gone,
that way they'll still sell them but they don't have to take up catalog space.
I just bought one too because there's no way to know how long the handfull
will last.  And boy is it a great set.  I gotta get me the Technic motor now.

Funny thing about 8448 though, I've only ever seen one of them in a brick and
mortar store, at a Toys R Us two years ago.  Either I missed it when they were
everywhere or Lego didn't do a very good job of getting them out there.

I thought the 8448 had been discontinued, that's what Lego S@H told me.
My dampened shocks broke, I got replacements and one of the replacements
have the same number as the defective ones.  Anyone know if the new
generation should have different numbers?  BTW, I cleaned out the broken
piece in my broken shocks and I think it make for spiffy keychains:)
-Nathan


I don't know, but the 8448 disappeared from S@H magazines down here in the
US.  However, it is still available on the website.  I just built mine today
=), and for myself I am wondering if the shocks will break, considering I
purchased it about a month ago.  They look very similar to the one's in my
Silver Champion. (which I purchased off Walmart.com!)

Rob Bryson



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The S@H catalog I got in the mail last week didn't have it. The one before that did. So they must have just recently decided to pull it from the printed materials, and the Boss packages were made up before that. Funny thing about the Indy Storm, one (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.technic)

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They probably stopped making them a year ago, left them in the S@H catalog as long as they had a big stack of them in the warehouse, and are only down to a handfull now. It's still up at shop.lego.com until that last handfull is gone, that way (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.technic)

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