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(...) Actually, I have to correct myself. Sets 1496 and 1497, the Rally sets, were sold in US stores, but as part of value pack 1509. An MISB 1509 just sold on eBay for $76.00. I was bidding on that one, but considering the fact that 1496 and 1497 (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.town)
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(...) 14xx never appeared in stores. Some (if not most) 16xx did. (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.town)
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Mark Herzberg wrote in message ... (...) 1992, (...) Ummm...I always assumed that Town sets beginning with 1XXX were only sold via S@H. Maybe that explains why they aren't so rare on Ebay. On the other hand 1490 and 1484 have seldom appeared. (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.town)
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(...) The 1682 Space Shuttle was sold in US and Canadian stores from 1990 to 1992, though S@H still had it at the begining of 1995. I bought mine at Tuesday Morning in 1994. (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Wauugghh! Yah, you said it! :-( I saw an MOC the other day which did use these (in white, from old Futuron sets and more reently in a Divers set) and they looked *SO* excellent there. Maybe we'll see a UCS MF with these in gray! (drool) --Todd (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.town, lugnet.starwars)
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Kya Morden wrote in message <38be0d67.6163361@lu...et.com>... (...) The Exxon Gas Station has appeared quite a lot on Ebay recently and the Space Shuttle appears twice a blue moon. The #6380 hospital on the other hand makes a frequent appearance on (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.town)
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Looking closely at the Spring S@H catalog, it does indeed look like there'll four of them. The only real reason to search for this set on clearance. Dave (...) sets -- (...) pre-fab (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.town)
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(...) They are indeed. Too bad I don't have more concave corridor pieces. :) -JDF (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.town)
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The concave corridor corners you speak of are in the set. If only they had used these pieces to make corridors in the MF, since they're basically the same shape. I've been doing that a lot lately, looking at other Lego lines and thinking "hmmm... I (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.town)
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(...) That's the one piece in this theme that really interests me. I agree that the boxes seem contain a lot of air which is why I have stayed away for now. I really think those pieces would work great in space themes. I think in quantity they would (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.town, lugnet.space)
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