 | | Re: Apocryphal Blacktron (I know you've been jonesing)
| David Koudys
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In lugnet.space, Dave Schuler wrote: snip (...) Love to see it built with real pieces! The CGI makes it look too 'clean' :) As a guy who used to play MW lots 'n lots, I'd like to take a run around in this suit... Dave K (3 years ago, 20-Jul-10, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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| | Re: Apocryphal Blacktron (I know you've been jonesing)
| John Neal
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(...) My review of the Landshark is thusly: First off, I'm not hip enough to even know the meaning of "jonesing," but that aside, I like this AMOC you have created here, Dave! The proportions are pleasingly cute, like a Pixar character, which may (...) (3 years ago, 19-Jul-10, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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| | Apocryphal Blacktron (I know you've been jonesing)
| Dave Schuler
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For quite a while I've wanted to build an smaller-scale battlesuit/mech, and I've finally come up with something. I can't actually put a minifig inside, due to the constraints of the shoulder and hip joints, but I still kind of like it. I present (...) (3 years ago, 19-Jul-10, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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| | Mega Bloks Instruction Scans
| Dave Schuler
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I've begun working my way through my library of Mega Bloks instruction booklets and posting the scans online. If you're interested in the result, check it out over at The Bloks Forum: (URL) me know if you have any requests for older instruction (...) (3 years ago, 4-Jun-10, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | First steps toward a graphical catalog of Mega Bloks parts now online
| Dave Schuler
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Please check it out (URL), if you're interested. So far it's very basic. The only parts listed at all are those that have been modeled for use with LEdit (et al); This represents somewhere around 450 elements. And only about 100 or so include sample (...) (3 years ago, 13-Dec-09, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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| | Set Review: MEGA BLOKS ProBuilder Master Series 9778 Steam Express
| John Neal
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The review below is reprinted from the (URL) BLOKS Forum> (URL) This won't be a formal review, but just some impressions about this set from the perspective of a die-hard LEGO fan. I have never owned or built a MEGA BLOKS set before, so this was a (...) (3 years ago, 12-Dec-09, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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| | Re: Private label clone sets at Winn Dixie
| Larry Marak
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(...) Ray, cross post this to Bloks.Hyperboards.forum. We've got cloner collectors over there that would scour Winn Dixies in their neighborhood for these sets, even buying additional sets to mail to other board members. There are a number of (...) (4 years ago, 12-Nov-09, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Private label clone sets at Winn Dixie
| Ray Sanders
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A local Winn Dixie had two clone sets mixed in with the Christmas toy selection this past week. No name on the front, but flipping one of them over suggested that WD was having them manufactured in China as a private label. One of them appeared to (...) (4 years ago, 10-Nov-09, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Kadawa...Dia Blok..is back and Disney sells it!
| Larry Marak
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Kadawa, the king of Japanese bricks, is once again the official Disneyland and Disneyworld brick, after an absence of 30 years. Once again if you want the sleeping beauty's castle, the Jungle Cruise (I've got this one, its fantastic!) Splash (...) (4 years ago, 12-Oct-09, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Tente
| Simon Gammon
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Does anyone have any useful links for Tente? The two links from here are broken and I'd like to research a couple of mini sets for ebaying. I've also got some random pieces trawled from various lego lots and I'd like to find out a bit about them. In (...) (4 years ago, 23-Sep-09, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Toppo brand clones
| Larry Marak
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(...) Found out what these are after 20 months of research. The name is not toppo, its torro. Torro bricks were the Lego of New Zealand for close to 20 years. Their components were made of various types of plastic, from soft plastic 2x4 bricks to (...) (4 years ago, 10-Sep-09, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | New elements, get them while they're hot!
| Larry Marak
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New best lock sets are coming out with new (to the Lego palette) elements. The newest 240 and 500 piece police building sets include a few 1x5 bricks, 1x5 plates, as well as scads of 1x4x3 bricks. Best Lock's change of base from Chendu (where little (...) (4 years ago, 27-Aug-09, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | brick design breakthrough
| Larry Marak
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K'nex has now introduced in one of their aircraft line, two way friction pins for their bricks. Knex bricks are beveled at the top and bottom of the tubes allowing pins to clutch, unlike lego technic, which relies on the shape of the pin alone for (...) (4 years ago, 27-Aug-09, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: the 11 x 19 plate has arrived!!
| Larry Marak
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(...) Don't have the ability to post pictures on my webtv box (I don't even own a computer) The new 500 piece Best Lock Town series Police Station has 3 of the above plates in white as well as a host of elements not seen before from TLG (4 years ago, 26-Aug-09, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: the 11 x 19 plate has arrived!!
| Tore Eriksson
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(...) Cool. Do you have a picture? (4 years ago, 23-Aug-09, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: The one by twenty-four brick has arrived!
| Larry Marak
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(...) In tackling the problem of larger builds, K'nex is adopting a different tact than the late Built to Rule sets. Built to rule used large heavy pieces that had to clutch by a single short row of studs, often taxing the clutch of the build. K'nex (...) (4 years ago, 15-Jul-09, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | The one by twenty-four brick has arrived!
| Larry Marak
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Knex has released a new series of 4 large vehicle building sets. How large?, well they use 1x24 and 1x16 bricks! Knex continues reinventing itself and the brick. Prior to this series the 1x2 was their largest one wide brick. This series introduces (...) (4 years ago, 11-Jul-09, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Sluban takes the battle to Lego
| Larry Marak
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Two years after the Netherlands high court decision making it possible to import building bricks identical in scale to Lego into Holland, the Sluban company of Guanjaou has now established a commercial presence on the European continent. Sold (...) (4 years ago, 19-Jun-09, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | the 11 x 19 plate has arrived!!
| Larry Marak
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The title says it all. the 11x19 plate has arrived, in Best Lock set 24006 (240 piece firefighters set, release date 2008). A number of pieces in this set are new to Lego scale and appear to be from a new source, possibly, Coco Toy Co. of Shanghai, (...) (4 years ago, 9-Jun-09, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: New Mega blok Gundam
| Joseph Gonzalez
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(...) review info on these models (and a tip on where to get these at a less-than-insane price) can be found here: (URL) ..jg (4 years ago, 27-May-09, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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