Category Archives: Shopping

This is just wrong

December 31, 2010 – 7:27 pm

This is just wrong. Saw this at the Wake Forest Wal-Mart yesterday. I suspect the collectible mini-figs would be a huge shop lifting problem. Looks to me like someone helped themselves to a couple mini-figs.

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My LEGO Vault “For Sale” list

September 5, 2010 – 3:45 pm

Update: 9/11/2010 All items are no longer available.  As of tonight I received an offer for the whole lot which I have accepted. So unless something happens and the deal falls through, I have sold entire contents of my vault! As I noted in a post yesterday, I am planning to part with a fair [...]

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New Trains for 2010 but limitations persist

January 21, 2010 – 5:10 pm

New Trains! When I first saw some links to the 2010 trains I was excited.  These would be the first trains to be based on the Power Functions and in my opinion, the first train sets to come from LEGO since the decision to drop the 9v line.  One could argue that there were two [...]

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WITC display for January – Arrrggh! Pirates

January 8, 2010 – 1:07 pm

I was asked if I could put something together on short notice for the Window into the Community (aka WITC) for the Raleigh LEGO Store.  I have a lot of the things I use for NCLTC layouts in boxes in my basement but several of them that I’d like to use (e.g. my church or [...]

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2010 LEGO Train Sets

December 24, 2009 – 11:13 am

I saw a link to this image on the WamaLUG mailing list. You can read a bit more about 2010 LEGO Trains in this article on BrickSet.  A couple of initial thoughts: It is nice to see LEGO Trains coming back and as expected, they are Power Function based. I really wish LEGO would release [...]

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