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Re: Non-TLG Parts
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Date: 
Fri, 12 Feb 1999 03:58:55 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
> Call me a brand-purist, I guess.  Maybe it comes from playing with LEGO for
> over 30 years and always enjoying it.  (And playing with off-brands every
> once in a while and very seldom enjoying it.)

I'll admit, I'm something of a Lego fanatic myself.  However, I have had
some very good experiences building with Tente and Construx.  I wish now
that I had never gotten rid of my Tente pieces.  :-(

> It wouldn't bother me if people talked about modelling non-LEGO-brand
> entities so long as it furthered the cause of the phenomenon known as LDraw
> and didn't get in the way of real LEGO discussions, but I'd be very pleased
> never to see the .cad.dat group cluttered up with clone stuff.

Hmmm... I would suggest that a lugnet.cad.dat.clone group be created for
just this thing, except that in reality it would probably never be used due
to lack of parts.  :-,  I guess it's bridge to cross when / if we get there.

Cheers,
- jsproat

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| |  I'm sorry Dave, but Abort, Retry or Fail?
|o|  Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@geocities.com>
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  Re: Non-TLG Parts
 
(...) It's both. Not that I'm closed-minded, but I really have a lot of trouble imagining a competitor ever coming out with a better product in the same category as LEGO. And even if one did -- and even if the product were totally LEGO compatible -- (...) (28 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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