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Subject: 
A Very Bad Clone Knock-Off
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lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.dear-lego
Date: 
Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:02:11 GMT
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So I’m at the Dollarrama this evening, perusing for paperclips with the missus, when I happened upon this--



“Star Soldier Gaaki”

Now where have I seen this before?

Oh right--

Set 4868 - 4868 Rahaga Gaaki

So wasting 1 dollar (and it really was a waste as we shall see), I bought it and took it home

First the good bits--

None

The bad bits--



The picture is a direct rip-off of TLC’s artwork

Even the ‘container art’ is all TLC’s, right down to the ‘Bionicle Text’ on the spinning ring--



The actual flying ring in the set has no such text at all--



And is extemely poorly molded.

Along with these parts--





Even the parts that didn’t look like they were part of a dog’s breakfast didn’t fit together well at all--joints were eitehr too loose or too tight.

But I prevailed and finally got the thing together--



The spinning disk doesn’t work well at all, and the rest pretty much equally sucks.

So a ‘heads up’, TLC. The only information on the container states “Dollarama H4P 1M2 China” (surprise) and on the instructions it says ‘CAN XING TOYS’

That’s all I found.

Hope you can use this information to get these guys to stop making direct knock-offs.

Dave K



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  Re: A Very Bad Clone Knock-Off
 
David Koudys wrote: (snip the rage against the machine) > > But I prevailed and finally got the thing together-- > > (URL) > > The spinning disk doesn't work well at all, and the rest pretty much equally > sucks. > > So a 'heads up', TLC. The only (...) (17 years ago, 19-Jun-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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