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I saw this link at the "bloks" group, but I thought some folks here might want
to see this.
http://www.brickplanet.com./
It's mostly by a Korean named "painkiller" who takes very good close-up shots of
the three brands.
Go to "toy pix" then to review and pix of Lego" Except for the brand name, the
titles for the Oxford and Cobi (titled "ib" ) are in Korean, but it's well worth
the time to look through the 75 pages (on 6 sub pages), as he has stuff from
their town, military, police, castle, historic East Asian, and other lines.
The Oxford stuff is just so cool. It is in the late 80's LEGO style. He shows
interiors, components, and minifigs from each set. and a few places he shows
comparisons between the 3 different brands. Now that some of the Oxford stuff
is under license to cobi/bestlok and being sold as Just Kidz at Kmart, I may
finally get my wish to buy Oxford affordably!
If Oxford was sold in the USA, it would defeinately get a portion of my brik
budget. It really is the only clone brik that seems to capture the LEGO design
asthetic.
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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Karl Paulsen wrote:
> I saw this link at the "bloks" group, but I thought some folks here might want
> to see this.
For the lazy, a direct link comparison of the three brands of minifigs
http://brickplanet.com/zboard/zboard.php?id=General&page=4&sn1=&divpage=1&sn=off&ss=on&sc=on&select_arrange=headnum&desc=asc&no=30
See why I find Oxford intriguing?
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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Karl Paulsen wrote:
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I saw this link at the “bloks” group, but I thought some folks here might want
to see this.
http://www.brickplanet.com./
It’s mostly by a Korean named “painkiller” who takes very good close-up shots
of the three brands.
Go to “toy pix” then to review and pix of Lego” Except for the brand name,
the titles for the Oxford and Cobi (titled “ib” ) are in Korean, but it’s well
worth the time to look through the 75 pages (on 6 sub pages), as he has stuff
from their town, military, police, castle, historic East Asian, and other
lines.
The Oxford stuff is just so cool. It is in the late 80’s LEGO style. He
shows interiors, components, and minifigs from each set. and a few places he
shows comparisons between the 3 different brands. Now that some of the Oxford
stuff is under license to cobi/bestlok and being sold as Just Kidz at Kmart, I
may finally get my wish to buy Oxford affordably!
If Oxford was sold in the USA, it would defeinately get a portion of my brik
budget. It really is the only clone brik that seems to capture the LEGO
design asthetic.
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Thanks for linking to these, Karl. The Oxford Panmunjeom set is interesting (and
accurate!):
Are there any pictures of the K-Mart Oxford stuff anywhere?
Marc Nelson Jr.
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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Marc Nelson Jr. wrote:
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Thanks for linking to these, Karl. The Oxford Panmunjeom set is interesting
(and accurate>!):
Are there any pictures of the K-Mart Oxford stuff anywhere?
Marc Nelson Jr.
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Wow, Kudos on the history knowledge. An interesting bit of modern history woven
into that toy. As for pictures, I haven’t seen any, but supposedly the Oxford
toys that the K-mart varieties are repackaged versions of can be seen here:
http://bloks.hyperboards.com/index.php?action=view_topic&topic_id=335
it;s a few posts down, it appears that but the jeeps set, police van, tank, jet,
police station and fire station are the currently available sets. Let us know if
you find pictures of the K-Mart stuff. The wife is buying new shoes this
weekend, so I’m going to see if I can get a stop off at K-mart out of the
deal....
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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Karl Paulsen wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Marc Nelson Jr. wrote:
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Thanks for linking to these, Karl. The Oxford Panmunjeom set is interesting
(and accurate>!):
Are there any pictures of the K-Mart Oxford stuff anywhere?
Marc Nelson Jr.
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Wow, Kudos on the history knowledge. An interesting bit of modern history
woven into that toy. As for pictures, I haven’t seen any, but supposedly
the Oxford toys that the K-mart varieties are repackaged versions of can be
seen here:
http://bloks.hyperboards.com/index.php?action=view_topic&topic_id=335
it;s a few posts down, it appears that but the jeeps set, police van, tank,
jet, police station and fire station are the currently available sets. Let us
know if you find pictures of the K-Mart stuff. The wife is buying new shoes
this weekend, so I’m going to see if I can get a stop off at K-mart out of
the deal....
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One correction, the tank kit shown over on blocks was not part of the JustKidz
releases so far, it was posted in reference to another question. The K-Mart
line so far consists of 3 140 piece kits, the Jeep set, a swat van, and a fire
pumper truck, each with two minfigs, and 3 400 piece sets, the police station,
fire station, and military jet maintence set.
There are also additional releases in round cardboard drums under the cobi/best
lock label and at higher prices at TRU, topping out at a 50 dollar 1501 piece
set.
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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Larry Marak wrote:
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3 400 piece sets,
the police station, fire station, and military jet maintence set.
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any pics of these 3?
Jeff
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3 400 piece sets,
the police station, fire station, and military jet maintence set.
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any pics of these 3?
Jeff
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I just picked up the police station, fire station and swat van.
There are pictures of the 3 large sets on the back of each large set box. I’ll
try and get some pics of the sets, boxes and accessory/weapon sprues up tomorrow
or the next day.
As for the sets, they are obviously using slightly simplified Oxford sets. The
overall quality seems to be a bit less than the Oxford stuff at painkillers
site. The Oxford stuff I’ve seen online seems to be of solid LEGO quality,
whereas The KMart figures and accessories are a tiny bit cruder, and some of the
acessories pieces of the Oxford sets have been removed for the KMart editions.
Except for their legs, Oxford figs are nearly indistinguishable from LEGO, but
the KMart figs have slightly elongated necks, and cruder hands. As expected,
like most clones, black and white are the only near-exact matches for LEGO
colors.
Over all though, I am very impressed, the pieces are similar to MegaBloks in
that you have to push a bit harder than LEGO to fit them toghether, but once
together they stay together very well. It is also neat to fineally have some
afro-american figures, and I really like the unique door pieces. Comparing to
similar LEGO offerings shows the real value of these sets. Aproximately a
quarter to a third of the price of similar lego offerings.
The instructions are printed on quality glossy paper, and say “Cobi Best-Lock”.
Also, the sets included accessories like guns, tools, etc, and qute a number of
extra pieces that were not pictured on the box. The police station set even
came with sandbag annd stone-like bricks that were not shown on the box or in
the instructions
The SWAT van is my favorite. As was mentioned in an earier post, it has a very
nice simple design and good accessories. The firehouse set is a close second,
and is probably the best set of the batch for piece selection and play value.
The included fire engine is a very nice model, the motorcyle is very cool, and
by dispensing with the helicopter and firehouse from the instructions, I was
able to make a much nicer three story firehouse than the the one pictured on the
box. The Police station is nice, but it had almost no 1x2 briks, and I found
myself wishing that the set had more windows and doors like the fire set.
I may purchase multiples of the sets that I have, but I probably will not go for
the military sets as I have no little interest in Military briks. Also, the
smaller fire set is just a simpler version of two vehicles that come in the
larger set, so I probably won’t bother with that one either.
Here’s to hoping that KMart keeps expanding their quasi-Oxford “JustKidz” block
line!
Karl
PS It appears that Painkiller’s www.brickplanet.com site is gone, anybody able
to find a working link?
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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Karl Paulsen wrote:
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There are pictures of the 3 large sets on the back of each large set box.
I’ll try and get some pics of the sets, boxes and accessory/weapon sprues up
tomorrow or the next day.
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As promised...
http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y167/dane5140/Clone%20briks/?sc=6
In order of appearance...
1)Some pages from the instruction manuals
2)Back of large box set showing the 3 available large sets.
3)Pieces leftover after making the models in the 5th picture. Pieces from police
station on left and fire station on right. 4)The accessory sprues: there is also
a third sprue not pictured that has wrenches, axe and screwdriver. 5) the SWAT
van (middle) and fire truck were the only models built to directions (a bit
added to the fire truck), I found that there were enough pieces in each large
set to make a much nicer buildings than the more toylike models from the
directions.
Additional discoveries about these sets:
Most headwear (except for the fireman hats) is LEGO compatible. Justkidz heads
are a bit loose when put on LEGO bodies, and LEGO heads do not fit on JustKidz
bodies without alot of pressure (likely to break something). Also, the
rediculously long Sniper Rifles make good standard rifles when you shorten the
barrel and stock, and fine pistols when you remove barrel, stock and scope. I am
now fairly convinced that what we have here is an Oxford Clone, and not an
Oxford product.
Good day,
Karl
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Are there any pictures of the K-Mart Oxford stuff anywhere?
Marc Nelson Jr.
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Here - i got ‘em all & the plasic & fig quality is much better than old
Best-Lock, AND better than MegaBlocks. & the figs have cute faces & great hand
held tools/guns/accessories.
Jeff
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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Jeff Szklennik wrote:
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Are there any pictures of the K-Mart Oxford stuff anywhere?
Marc Nelson Jr.
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Here - i got ‘em all & the plasic & fig quality is much better than old
Best-Lock, AND better than MegaBlocks. & the figs have cute faces & great
hand held tools/guns/accessories.
Jeff
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Neat! Thanks for posting the pic. I’ll have to get to K-Mart and check those
out.
Marc Nelson Jr.
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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Jeff Szklennik wrote:
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Here - i got ‘em all & the plasic & fig quality is much better than old
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Jeff, a question about the military jeep set. Is the camo pattern on the briks
or is it stickers? I’m thinking it might be neat to have some OD green bricks,
but I’m really not interested in camo pattern bricks. Karl
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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Karl Paulsen wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Jeff Szklennik wrote:
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Here - i got ‘em all & the plasic & fig quality is much better than old
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Jeff, a question about the military jeep set. Is the camo pattern on the
briks or is it stickers? I’m thinking it might be neat to have some OD green
bricks, but I’m really not interested in camo pattern bricks. Karl
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The Just Kidz military set that I picked up included a sheet of camo decals,
with no printed pricks other than the minifigs.
FWIW.
Dave!
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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Dave Schuler wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Karl Paulsen wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Jeff Szklennik wrote:
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Here - i got ‘em all & the plasic & fig quality is much better than old
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Jeff, a question about the military jeep set. Is the camo pattern on the
briks or is it stickers? I’m thinking it might be neat to have some OD
green bricks, but I’m really not interested in camo pattern bricks. Karl
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The Just Kidz military set that I picked up included a sheet of camo
decals, with no printed pricks other than the minifigs.
FWIW.
Dave!
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ditto
Jeff
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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Dave Schuler wrote:
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The Just Kidz military set that I picked up included a sheet of camo
decals, with no printed pricks other than the minifigs.
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Hmmmm.
That’s ahh, quite a typo you’ve got there. Not your everyday, slip of the
finger on the keyboard thingie either. I hate to think what you were writing in
the other window you had open at the time...
That or I have truly failed to understand the wonder of what one might find in
one of these Military set ;-)
Richard
Still baldly going...
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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Richard Parsons wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Dave Schuler wrote:
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The Just Kidz military set that I picked up included a sheet of camo
decals, with no printed pricks other than the minifigs.
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Hmmmm.
That’s ahh, quite a typo you’ve got there. Not your everyday, slip of the
finger on the keyboard thingie either. I hate to think what you were writing
in the other window you had open at the time...
That or I have truly failed to understand the wonder of what one might find
in one of these Military set ;-)
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Hey, pal. The way I choose to interact with my construction toys is my
business, thankyouverymuch.
Er... Oops.
Dave!
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