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Re: Mega Bloks M1A1 Abrams Tank
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Date: 
Sun, 29 Sep 2002 04:24:39 GMT
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In lugnet.build.military, Daniel Siskind writes:
They're missing two sets of roadwheels! Looks more like a Challenger than a
M1A1... My four year old could build better!  Ach!


  Point me to a LEGO model in the last 50 years with an equivalent part count
and price and which was as scrupulously accurate as you're demanding the
MegaBloks model to be.
  Those six-wide LEGO trains and four-wide LEGO vehicles and doorless LEGO
vehicles and utterly absent LEGO military sets make me want to puke.  My
non-existent four year old could do better.

Still, they'll probably sell a million of them... damned insensitive profiteers.

  If by "profiteers" you mean market-savvy manufacturers who respond to
consumer wishes by producing what the "true" brand will not, then I
wholeheartedly agree.

     Dave!



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  Re: Mega Bloks M1A1 Abrams Tank
 
(...) I have to agree with you Dave. Megabloks may not be original, but it gives people what they want and for a lot better price. I'm not saying lego is bad, but some of the stuff they have been coming out with is over priced and lacking in (...) (22 years ago, 30-Sep-02, to lugnet.build.military)
  Re: Mega Bloks M1A1 Abrams Tank
 
(...) <sarcasm alert! :-) > (...) While I agree with the above, I think Dan might referring more to the fact that this model is being released in desert camo (gee, for use where?), then that it's a military model that is well done and meeting the (...) (22 years ago, 30-Sep-02, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Mega Bloks M1A1 Abrams Tank
 
They're missing two sets of roadwheels! Looks more like a Challenger than a M1A1... My four year old could build better! Ach! Still, they'll probably sell a million of them... damned insensitive profiteers. It's like going to Wal-Mart: All those (...) (22 years ago, 27-Sep-02, to lugnet.build.military)

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