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| the construction clone site has the recent addition of a tente page. (URL) been curious about these sets for quite a while and the recent acquisition of a 1991 catalog has given me the chance to add some scans for other fans that might not have (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| (...) How about lugnet.off-topic.wannabes ? (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Wow, that's quite an impressive list of clones you have there at the (URL) I wonder, are there enough LEGO® fans here who are interested in both LEGO® bricks and imitation brands (such as Tente and Tyco) that we should set up a separate group (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
| | | | | ng for clone/imitation brands
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| (...) That might be a bit too pejorative...or maybe a bit unclear that it'd be about wannabe LEGO®-clones as opposed to wannabe other-things (like Madonna Wannabes and Elvis Wannabes :). BTW, one other possibility that I forgot to list earlier is: (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) If tente is to be included, I'd prefer that it be called off-brands because I would have to say clearly that tente is no clone. It's not even a workalike, really. (...) I am a purist. Yet I own a fair bit of tente, a whole shoebox full. (1) (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) No. Tente is not a wannabe. It's a different system. Is Kenner Bridge and Girder a wannabe? Is K-Nex? No, No, No, a thousand times no. (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
| | | | | Clones & Tente
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| (...) The fuzzilogical side of me wants to say that Tyco is a 90% clone and Megablox is an 80% clone and Tente is a 20% clone. :-) [Hey, now there's a fun research project: Study the evolution of construction toys and who came before whom. Did (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
| | | | | Re: Clones & Tente
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| (...) Well hmm. I see your point. I would put forth an argument that while LUGNET is not here to foster discussion outside its charter (if you allow other construction systems, do you then allow ALL toys??? Where does it stop), a narrowly focused (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
| | | | | Re: Clones & Tente
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| removed admin.general on this followup, it's not admin.. (...) More than one dimension here. One is, how compatible is it. (do studs and plugs mate? How many different kinds of mates? just the basic stud, or does rod system mate as well, how about (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| lugnet.off-topic.alt...es-to-lego -- Steven | svore at mindspring .com | kf4fbk | TC++MS++#15LS+M+HalYB64m (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) on the page. (...) i'll watch out for the possible creation of a forum for this kind of stuff. thanks, todd ..jg (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) But Tente could be considered a clone, because it is based on a top-stud-joining-brick-bottom system. But it's 0% compatible. As opposed to K'nex, which is 0% clone, 100% competitor. Steve (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) acquisition (...) that (...) So that's what I got from my friend! There were some pieces mixed in with the Lego I got from him. I kinda remeber the set it was from, and I think he got in the early '80s. I didn't even know they were still (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | | | Re: ng for clone/imitation brands
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| (...) Nono... _Madonna_ is the wannabe. :-) Jasper (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I've got some TENTE space figures to go with figure scale spaceships - the same size as LEGO ones. Steve Bliss wrote: (...) I think the top-stud-joining-brick-bottom should be the rule appiled to any such 'Clone' newsgroup to prevent the (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Really? Somewhere, I have a tente "astronaut". He's in little yellow body armour, head/helmet and torso one piece, arms one piece each, and legs one piece. His feet have four of the thin Tente prongs that fit inside the holes on top off the (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) My trucks are circa 1979. (...) And I saw some of these figs in the oil rig set that JG posted. These are circa 1991. I dunno when the figs first appeared but it was well after my trucks. So I'm gonna stick by what I said. The trucks that (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) hi jeff i don't recognize the description of brick that you gave me (but i'm pretty new at collecting info on other products)...maybe someone else out there recognizes this item? ..jg (26 years ago, 3-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Well, he IS a Mormon. er, ah... nope, never mind, I was thinking of a different word. I bet Sproat has never heard THAT joke before... Actually, at one point I was considering converting to LDS, but the girl dumped me and I came to my senses. (26 years ago, 3-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Jeff, I have to remember not to take any Legos to a class where your mother teaches! :-, Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 3-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Hehe.. I don't think you have too much to worry about, unless you've been flunking 5th grade for the past couple years. ;) Jeff (26 years ago, 3-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Heh heh heh, best seven years of my life, that wacky 5th grade. :-, (1) Cheers, - jsproat 1. If you want to hear a song that is almost my biography, listen to "Grade 9" by Barenaked Ladies. Good schtuff. (26 years ago, 3-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Okay, clue me in, Lar... (...) Funny, I was almost the same way about Catholocism. Ended up staying LDS and entering a year-long funk, after which, I laughed so hard at myself. Breaking up can be such an entertaining thing, in retrospect! :-, (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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