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Re: Question: Are reviews of non-LEGO (such as Mega Blocks) sets of interest?
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Thu, 4 Mar 1999 00:20:50 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:

In lugnet.admin.general, markt@lynx.bc.ca (Mark Tarrabain) writes:
Another reason is that quite frankly, the clones'
sets are not diversified enough to warrant a substantial number of different
reviews.

(Ahem :)  I think that's debatable.  Looking at the Best-Lock website, their
product line is rather impressive -- (wouldn't you agree?) -- they have over

Nope, actually, I don't agree.  (seems what we actually were in agreement with a couple
of weeks ago was just an exception huh? :)  Best-Lock claims to have over a hundred
different sets.  LEGO has many, many times that number.  LEGO has diversity in its
favour, far and away surpassing any that I have ever seen.

However, if the charter for the lugnet.reviews group is not amenable to clone reviews
being posted there, then a separate group, or perhaps even using rtl, as one other
fellow in this thread suggested, may be the best alternative.  Certainly it's not worth
getting into a heated debate over, since alternatives have already been suggested.

Mark



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  Re: Question: Are reviews of non-LEGO (such as Mega Blocks) sets of interest?
 
(...) In January someone posted a review of a Best-Lock set using Joshua Delahunty's LEGO® set review form: (URL) logical to me that if someone thought it was OK to use the LEGO® set review form for non-LEGO® building sets, they might also think it (...) (26 years ago, 3-Mar-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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