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Subject: 
Re: Interesting Castle on Ebay
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lugnet.castle
Date: 
Fri, 31 Dec 1999 17:35:07 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, James Brown writes:

I'm thinking rip-off more and more - take another look at the Black Falcon
Fortress, you will see a number of differences:


Yes there are quite a lot of differences, but I've never seen, or even heard
of, anyone trying to rip off LEGO.  It is hard to imagine LEGO making a
similar but different version of the set, but it is also hard to imagine
someone trying to rip off LEGO, and doing it so badly.  I wonder if there is
anyway that someone can verify the authenticity of this set with LEGO.



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  Re: Interesting Castle on Ebay
 
Actually, there is a Chinese company that sells rip-offs of some of the smaller sets here in dollar stores in Canada. The boxes look enough like Lego to fool you, but the pieces themselves look to be of much poorer quality when you take them out. -- (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)

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  Re: Interesting Castle on Ebay
 
(...) I'm thinking rip-off more and more - take another look at the Black Falcon Fortress, you will see a number of differences: (URL)James (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)

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