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Re: Interesting Castle on Ebay
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lugnet.castle
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Sat, 1 Jan 2000 20:56:59 GMT
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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.
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Paul Davidson
David Carriker <mr_carriker@techie.com> wrote in message
news:FnM8uJ.JpM@lugnet.com...
> 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:
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> 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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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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