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| Brickcentury is the same as Shifty Bricks (actually, you can tell this from the pictures). I believe they have either renamed their military line to this, or they are planning to rename the company itself. Some of the newer military sets that are (...) (20 years ago, 7-Dec-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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shifty, bricks
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| | Re: Brick Century Military
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| (...) Nope, 'Shifty Bricks' becomes 'Brick Century' (or at least is affiliated with it somehow); whereas Oxford is an entirely different and independent company from Korea, think of it as the Korean equivalent of Megabloks if you like. As for (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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shifty, bricks
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| | Shifty Bricks in Morning Glory - How shifty!
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| I spotted these while walking past yesterday, they were in the Morning Glory clearance store near the info centre in Queen St Mall. They had a huge range of the smaller sets... at first, due to their copy-cat pictures, I thought they were selling (...) (20 years ago, 13-Sep-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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shifty, bricks
(score: 1.274)
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| | Powco - a new Chinese clone?
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| I was in Mr Toys Toyworld at Indooroopilly today. Nothing incredibly exciting there. A bit of this and that. But I did notice what looks like a new Chinese clone brand. I did not have my reading glasses with me (sign of age!) but the brandname (...) (17 years ago, 15-Sep-07, to lugnet.loc.au)
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shifty, bricks
(score: 1.254)
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| | Re: Cobi/Best-Lock
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| (...) Old Timers may recall the flap back in '99 over the (URL) LEGODEATH> image originally crafted by "Froggy." A brief (400+ post) thread on RTL can be read (URL), if you're interested. I can't remember what became of that whole issue, but clearly (...) (18 years ago, 3-Jan-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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shifty, bricks
(score: 1.183)
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| | Re: Cobi/Best-Lock
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| (...) I'm not sure, to be honest. Cobi has existed for some time in Europe (based in Poland) but has only become available in the US very recently, in the wake of the Cobi/Best-Lock merger. Over at (URL) The Bloks Forum> we've been discussing this (...) (18 years ago, 2-Jan-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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shifty, bricks
(score: 1.183)
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| | Re: 2 Types of Brown?!?
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| (...) spot the difference with mold wise. I have a red quiver from one of their sets, its very likely they have done one in brown (The colour you get in the box appears to be a bit random and bears no relation to the colour on the box or in the (...) (21 years ago, 6-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle)
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shifty, bricks
(score: 1.173)
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| | Re: PodBrix???
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| (...) From a quick perusal of the FAQ: How are the PodBrix minifigs created? Tomi Responds: I start with a standard LEGO® brand minifig and modify it by hand to create the desired appearance. Each one is slightly different. Sounds to me as though (...) (18 years ago, 7-Aug-06, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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shifty, bricks
(score: 1.142)
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| | Re: Clone brand quality
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| (...) The infamous Chinese "Bricks" company has made several knock-offs of LEGO sets, and have lost several legal cases, but they also make their own legal military sets, with excellent designs and pretty high quality bricks, matching the MB quality (...) (18 years ago, 6-Jul-06, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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shifty, bricks
(score: 1.137)
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| | Re: Clone brand quality
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| (...) Thanks for the clarification--I only have one "Brick" Castle set, and it included clearly pirated as well as clearly original elements. I don't own any "Shifty," but I concur with your assessment. (...) Tyco is of excellent quality, and some (...) (18 years ago, 6-Jul-06, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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shifty, bricks
(score: 1.133)
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| | Re: Clear Horses? Clear Minifigs?
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| "Johannes 'Jojo' Koehler" <chutspe@gmx.net> wrote in message news:HGorK7.16ss@lugnet.com... (...) I (...) at a (...) has a (...) horse (...) It couldn't be any of those "Shifty Bricks" (Interesting choice for a name...). It's much cheaper (and (...) (21 years ago, 18-Jun-03, to lugnet.castle)
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shifty, bricks
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shifty, bricks
(score: 1.077)
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| | Re: Understanding Leaks
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| (...) I'm not so sure about this. With the exception of Shifty bricks, I can't think of any current clone brands that do much copying from LEGO, certainly not to the extent that they'd lurk around fan sites to cull secret, leaked information. What (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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shifty, bricks
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| | Re: Plane Sailing? (was Re: 10024Red Baron)
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| (...) Indeed I could have. Actually I also have a Shifty Bricks shovel in the required brown colour. However, to do so would have raised further questions: - Are dark grey LEGO shovels as strong as brown LEGO shovels? -(In fact, do all LEGO colours (...) (22 years ago, 29-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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shifty, bricks
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shifty, bricks
(score: 0.992)
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| | Re: LUG'OZ - 2002: Brisbane
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| (...) Except perhaps: bot1: Edge-detector bot by Tristan(?) shifty*: pics of the "shifty bricks" spotted (and purchased by some) on our walk through Southbank on Saturday vend*: The now well-known LEGO vending machine at Brisbane airport ROSCO (22 years ago, 13-Jun-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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shifty, bricks
(score: 0.990)
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| | Re: Final Official Statement - Maersk Second Run
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| (...) Yes, and about many other things too. Look what I found in the "Press" section of the Lego website. (URL) For those too lazy to click, here's the text: Classic Grey LEGO bricks on sale again In very early April 2005 the LEGO Group will (...) (20 years ago, 27-Jan-05, to lugnet.fun.holiday, FTX) !!
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shifty, bricks
(score: 0.988)
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| | Re: Jason does Brisbane
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| (...) Glad you're respecting my trademark there! (...) More brown 2x2 bricks than you can poke a stick at (and with all those brown 2x2's you can actually make quite a realistic stick!). And an awkwardly odd number of low-sloped roof pieces... which (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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shifty, bricks
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shifty, bricks
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| | Re: Brick Century Military
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| (...) I don't have any Megblocks and only one of the John Deere Ertle/ Best Block sets. No comparison to Shifty. Shifty is Lego as far as the bricks are concerned. The axles and wheels are the weak link, not Lego at all. Look up the 1999 / 2000 Hong (...) (20 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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shifty, bricks
(score: 0.980)
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