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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
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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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| (...) 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 (...) (21 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.general)
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shifty, bricks
(score: 4.126)
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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
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shifty, bricks
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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
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shifty, bricks
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| | Re: Has there ever been counterfiet Lego?
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| Farlie & All, (...) Well, there have been a few incidents, I remember Shifty bricks, which was ablatant ripoff, that came from China. I think some of the Chinese firms are doing massive amounts of that, inluding Lego items. They had King Leo on a (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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shifty, bricks
(score: 4.049)
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| | Re: Lego not an original idea?
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| (...) Well, according to the article itself, they paid for the idea in a settlement - so if they weren't legit at first, they certainly are now. As for the companies - well, some of them at least are producing "copy" LEGO sets - with the same (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
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shifty, bricks
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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 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
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| The dreaded Shifty/Brick brand has now appeared in Brisbane, Australia, spotted by a group of LUGnetters at a recent OzFest (see (URL) the interests of scientific research, informed consumerism, and saving a bit of dosh, I went along to the same (...) (22 years ago, 19-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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shifty, bricks
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| (...) compatible and (...) is not (...) I just bought another Shifty set. This one is a Pirate/Imperial set, an obvious copy of Lego's 6279 Skull Island. (URL) cost $35 (US$20) and was the largest Shifty set available. The Lego equivalent cost US$53 (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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shifty, bricks
(score: 4.007)
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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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| | 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
(score: 4.002)
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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
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shifty, bricks
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