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Re: Interesting Castle on Ebay
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lugnet.castle
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Tue, 4 Jan 2000 14:20:11 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Dan Jezek writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Jeff Thompson writes:
> > Interesting theory.
> >
> > However,
> >
> > 1. It seems like a lot of work for someone to kludge up
> > a new image to paste on the cover of an existing box. What
> > some people won't do for money .... but it seems like too
> > much work to me.
> >
> > More tellingly,
> >
> > 2. The castle wall corners appear to be round (look in the bottom
> > picture showing the contents of the set, in the left half of
> > the box). It looks awfully round to me, and therefore wouldn't
> > be a genuine LEGO element.
> >
> > My guess - it's a clone, and the person is legitimately describing
> > the pieces when he says that there are no logos on the studs.
> >
> > If Margo K is making the winning bid on the set, I hope she will
> > tell us the results of the winnings after she's gotten her hands
> > on the set.
> >
> > This point of yours ("The most valuable pieces from set 6074 are not present
> > in this auction offering. Likely harvested out; other pieces added to
> > compensate and make a more "complete" castle.") is fairly compelling
> > to my suspicious mind, though.
>
> I don't believe this.
> Why would someone go through all the trouble of making a fake box just because
> they wanted to keep the special pieces from that set? If they wanted to just
> get the pieces, they could auction off the rest for parts and I'm sure that
> the total amount they would make on breaking up the set for parts would be
> roughly the same what they'll get for this set or maybe a little less.
> It does seem too much work just to make a few extra bucks.
> Dalu cannot mean Lego in arabian. Lego doesn't have any other meaning. It's
> just lego and it's a name of a company and a product. I can see an arabian
> name for house or a horse or a bowl of soup but not lego.
> For the conclusion, this cannot be an official lego set. It is either a
> clone, a fake (which is hard to believe) or another possibility is partial
> lego and partial other brand. Those horses and shields just look too much
> like lego to be anything else.
I don't think the seller is trying to deceive anyone! In his email to me,
he stated that he didn't know much about lego. He was also upfront in
telling me that the pieces didn't have the lego logo on them. I think that
he was convinced that the set was an arabic issue of a lego set. With the
similarities, it would be easy to be fooled if your weren't that familiar
with lego. What I want to know is where is this company that is blatantly
ripping off lego clones. What other sets are they copying? And I would
also like to hear a comparison of their pieces to lego pieces!
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| Tom Reed <Merthyn1@webtv.net> schreef in berichtnieuws FntEHn.LoG@lugnet.com... <snip> (...) You're thinking the same thing I am, aren't you? Trying to find an easier way to get those castle sets and bricks! J/k :o) -- Arjan Brugman - (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) I have no idea where that big clone come from. Recently I saw some small LEGO clone sets in Toronto. They were inside one of those "insert coins to roll a toy in ball" machines. All of them are older small sets like 1733. There is no LEGO (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) I don't believe this. Why would someone go through all the trouble of making a fake box just because they wanted to keep the special pieces from that set? If they wanted to just get the pieces, they could auction off the rest for parts and I'm (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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