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Post by RobbieSKatz on Feb 18, 2012 19:37:30 GMT
Has anyone bought the big, plastic mountain by itself? Without and figures attached or anything. I´d love to buy it and arrange a 1:40 collection on it.
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Post by lio99 on Feb 18, 2012 19:49:38 GMT
I don't think they sell the mountain without the figures anymore.
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Post by brachiosaurus on Feb 21, 2012 20:56:28 GMT
The dinosaur place gets them sometimes, when i asked they said it would be $80, when they called to tell us they had one they said it was $180  The dinosaur place is located in Conneticut |
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Post by sbell on Feb 21, 2012 23:17:19 GMT
The dinosaur place gets them sometimes, when i asked they said it would be $80, when they called to tell us they had one they said it was $180 The dinosaur place is located in Conneticut You may have been originally quoted a cost price, because that sounds about right. The next person may have given you the retail price, which you 'should' be paying as a customer. |
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Post by jwmo on Feb 21, 2012 23:40:41 GMT
Has anyone bought the big, plastic mountain by itself? Without and figures attached or anything. I´d love to buy it and arrange a 1:40 collection on it. I was able to purchase one alone (without the figures) through my local natural history museum for $100 without any sort of mark-up. I think it is actually the Safari Ltd. display and not the Carnegie Mt. It is made of much thinner vinyl than the original Carnegie mountain. You can see it here: dinotoyforum.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=collections&action=display&thread=4570I simply got the contact information of the museum gift shop's manager. She in turn put me in contact with the Safari rep. that caters to the museum. Long story short, I made my wishes known, and ended up buying the Safari Mt. through the museum's gift shop - upon special request. This is what I would suggest doing. Being polite and patient with all these folks - including the very gracious Safari Ltd. rep - helped a lot. I believe it also helped to mention that I was a member of the museum... |
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Post by brachiosaurus on Feb 21, 2012 23:51:18 GMT
The dinosaur place gets them sometimes, when i asked they said it would be $80, when they called to tell us they had one they said it was $180 The dinosaur place is located in Conneticut You may have been originally quoted a cost price, because that sounds about right. The next person may have given you the retail price, which you 'should' be paying as a customer. It was the same person who said it was $80 |
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Post by jwmo on Feb 21, 2012 23:54:56 GMT
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Post by jpengineer on Feb 22, 2012 0:05:46 GMT
I made really good friends with a toy person in a bigger city, I may see if she cant hook me up with one too...  |
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Post by DinoLord on Feb 22, 2012 0:49:47 GMT
Looked good, until I saw the $60 shipping. |
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Post by Dan on Feb 22, 2012 1:31:45 GMT
Looked good, until I saw the $60 shipping. Hah, that's nothing. I shipped one of these bad boys with UPS once, and I think it was over $70. Not including the chiropractor's bill on the following day.. |
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Post by mvcomedy on Mar 8, 2012 21:13:59 GMT
I have two - one is full with the first 10 years worth of dinos, the second is about half-full with the second decade's worth. One I bought from an online company called ABoyd. I tried to find their website but couldn't so it seems they're not in business anymore. Last time I did look at their site, I didn't see the mountain available anymore so it's possible that would have been a dead end anyway. I think it cost $120 with shipping, but that was 5 years ago so I can only guess. The second one I bought from the classifieds section of this board from another collector. I would suggest trying there or eBay. I can't imagine why the shipping is high on the above auction. The mountains do need a big box but they are light as a feather.
Incidentally, does anyone have a picture of the (purportedly short-lived) volcano display that is mentioned in the wikipedia article for the Carnegie Collection? I've never seen a reference to it anywhere but there, and I realize wikipedia is not the most reliable source. However, if it ever did exist I would like to see what it looked like.
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