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Subject:	Re: Clone DATs--any interest?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.cad.dev
Date:	Sat, 27 Nov 1999 02:38:06 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Larry Pieniazek writes: > Second, Tyco is NOT "crummy", it's just different. Disagree. I remember trying it out Tyco in 1988 and it left a very bitter taste in my mouth -- blyecch -- and at the time I wasn't even a LEGO purist. True, Tyco was the best of the non-LEGO off-brands, but the quality still never quite lived up to the real thing. Also, the Tyco building instruction booklets were of extremely poor technical quality, and the suggested models were atrocious. > I don't use it but I > think you're letting your emotions get in when you toss around "crummy". Nah, some days I just live in a world of extremes where everything either totally stinks or totally rocks. > Tyco made blocks that it would really really have been nice to see TLG > make. The general designs, maybe...but even that cool 2x2 half-brick-height piece Tyco made which had "tubes" on both the top and bottom was nothing but trouble. I suspect LEGO never made it because it was too hard to pry apart. Then again, it may just have been the problem of the inferior Tyco plastic sticking too hard. --Todd

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		Re: Clone DATs--any interest?
(...) I'd say, brickwise, Tyco's biggest problem is they didn't round off the edges of the bricks. You thought it hurt to step on LEGO bricks? Those Tyco pieces were doubly painful. Also, the lack of rounding made it hard to pry the pieces apart. (...) (27 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)

		Re: Clone DATs--any interest?
(...) Aha! I don't remember that pain, but that sounds about right! That would certainly explain why that double-tube plate made parts connected to it so difficult to pull apart! :-( --Todd [followups to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands] (27 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)

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		Re: Clone DATs--any interest?
First of all, no one is trying to "pass" any clones as being the real thing. (...) Second, Tyco is NOT "crummy", it's just different. I don't use it but I think you're letting your emotions get in when you toss around "crummy". Tyco made blocks that (...) (27 years ago, 27-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.cad.dev)

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