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Re: worrying trend
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Date: 
Mon, 21 Feb 2000 17:15:40 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, James Brown writes:
It doesn't worry me if they can get their quality up to anything close
to LEGO bricks. We do need a serious competitor, and Ritvik is probably
in the best position to be that competitor. They seem to have a decent
design staff (the set designs I've looked at look good) and their Brick
geometry is the same as LEGO bricks (as opposed to Best-Lock which uses
a different brick height).


Which I think is deliberate, given that the themes are similar! Indeed some
the peices looked the same as TLG officals.

Alex



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(...) Some of the Mega Bloks sets I've seen have seriously appealed to be as sets. I would say that their design team is producing sets superior to most of LEGO's current offerings except it terms of brick quality. Mega Bloks also blows LEGO out of (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)

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