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Sometimes, nice things just happen. Like this: The other day I was driving a different route to work and noticed a small shop that claimed to be a specialty store for Lego® toys.

Turns out it's owned by a hardcore eBay Lego seller. And the shop works like this:

• Open on Mondays and Saturdays only.

• There is no online-order or mail delivery of any kind. You have to come and buy in person.

• You get regular sets for considerably lower prices than in regular toy stores, let alone the Lego brand store.

• You can fondle and/or barcode/knob-code-check collectible minifigs as long as you like. There were all three series in stock.

• There are huge bins filled with random unsorted used Lego (so huge you can't dig to the bottom level without shoveling out half the content). It is sold by weight. At one cent per gram!

(Minifigs are more expensive, especially the StarWars ones.)

• You're allowed to dig and shuffle and sort and pick as long as your fingers last.

• The bins contained lots and lots of awesome 90's stuff I never even knew existed.

It was a blast :-)

The minifig pile on the left was 13 Euros. All the rest was 7 Euros.

The best part: The shop is located 50 metres away from my regular route, 5 minutes away from work.

I'm Awesome! by Bev Sykes

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I, too, have been honored by Flickr with 5,002 of my photos selected as "awesome" (I have uploaded 5,004, so the other two must be really horrible! Thanks, Flickr, for the laugh!

1. Sunrise, 2. Indy, 3. Big Yawn, 4. Sleeping Pups, 5. "The Undressed Project", 6. Skagitt Valley Tulip Festival, 7. Pinacles National Monument, 8. Farm near Mount Barker, SW Australia,

9. Autumn in Ashland, 10. My San Francisco Childhood, 11. Venice Beach, 12. "The Undressed Project", 13. Sunset at Marlow, 14. New Moo Cards, 15. The bird is called a 28, 16. Fog,

17. I got mine, 18. River Glimpse, 19. Just too cute, 20. The Thanksgiving Table, 21. A Not-So-Beautiful Mind, 22. Pig Muffins, 23. Santa Barbara Sunset, 24. Harry Yawn,

25. Wildlife Park, Perth, 26. Sheila, 27. Liberty Bell, 28. PICT0001, 29. How to make good carrots, 30. Cell phone dispenser, 31. 91, 32. UC Berkeley,

33. cherries, 34. Bats, 35. Swan Mom, 36. An Honest Sign, 37. Lily, 38. Field of Canola, 39. The last of the puppies, 40. New Moos,

41. Self Image, 42. Sacramento, CA, 43. Moo from Lynette, 44. Sleepy Pup, 45. Riding in Style, 46. Sleepy Puppy, 47. Independence Day, 48. New Moos,

49. Celebrities - Michelle Phillips, 50. Dakota and Lizzie, 51. bubbles, 52. Middle Eastern Lamb Pizza, 53. Demetrius tries Kimba's Bed, 54. Tailor, 55. Pomegranates, 56. Don't Bother Me,

57. Morning mist in the bush, 58. Phoenix Sunset, 59. 10, 60. Here's your ears, 61. Skagitt Valley Tulip Festival, 62. Shop in North Beach, San Francisco, 63. Ruby and Tipper, 64. Dental Health,

65. Teddy, 66. Spring in the Capay Valley, 67. Harry, Weasley, Hagrid, 68. Brunch, 69. Happy, 70. White Everlasting, 71. T-shirt, 72. Lucy Grace Kirkpatrick

Created with fd's Flickr Toys.

Awesome assym 2 by Rainman1943

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