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(...) Are the ball sockets tight enough to pose the figure firmly? Eric (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) The fuzzilogical side of me wants to say that Tyco is a 90% clone and Megablox is an 80% clone and Tente is a 20% clone. :-) [Hey, now there's a fun research project: Study the evolution of construction toys and who came before whom. Did (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: TLG == Lego ? "Yes" : "No"
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Steve Bliss wrote in message <36b5c090.6570725@lu...et.com>... :On Sun, 31 Jan 1999 19:30:09 GMT, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman) :wrote: : :>p.s. I think Shell is also officially the Shell Group of companies. : :Spend some time at the Shell (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) No. Tente is not a wannabe. It's a different system. Is Kenner Bridge and Girder a wannabe? Is K-Nex? No, No, No, a thousand times no. (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) If tente is to be included, I'd prefer that it be called off-brands because I would have to say clearly that tente is no clone. It's not even a workalike, really. (...) I am a purist. Yet I own a fair bit of tente, a whole shoebox full. (1) (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | ng for clone/imitation brands
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(...) That might be a bit too pejorative...or maybe a bit unclear that it'd be about wannabe LEGO®-clones as opposed to wannabe other-things (like Madonna Wannabes and Elvis Wannabes :). BTW, one other possibility that I forgot to list earlier is: (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I _do_ so wish 8722 wasn't phasing out. It was the _one_ good starter set out there. Jasper (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: tente page
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(...) How about lugnet.off-topic.wannabes ? (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Wow, that's quite an impressive list of clones you have there at the (URL) I wonder, are there enough LEGO® fans here who are interested in both LEGO® bricks and imitation brands (such as Tente and Tyco) that we should set up a separate group (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: TLG == Lego ? "Yes" : "No"
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(...) No no, a thousand times no... I meant the Lego side of it -- Steven | svore at mindspring .com | kf4fbk | TC++MS++#15LS+M+HalYB64m (26 years ago, 1-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) OK. Well, it's probably easier and more cost-effective for them to put TB under the TECHNIC brand name than to create two new brand names. I guess they felt ZNAP is different enough from TECHNIC to get its own totally separate brand name. (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: ThrowBots elements are cool
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(...) I've built or played with all 4 of one series. Fun, but limited play value. I'm not sure what to make of certain of the elements yet, but I'm not a technic head. I think some of them have major uses though. (...) Plus they come in neat (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Numbers and Letters set, anyone get this?
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(...) Man, I dunno. These are HUGE. 4 studs is almost the height of a minifig! They may be OK for things like theatre names going vertically or company names on the top of buildings, but at minifig scale, I don't see them as suited for much else, (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Okay... I'm lost here.
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(...) Well, I suppose that's the most obvious! :-) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: ThrowBots elements are cool
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(...) Only by definition. That is, it's Technic because TLG says it's Technic. (...) Yes, they count. If the sets made use of the potential for anything more than making poseable action figures. (...) Yes. (...) And a bunch of funky new (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) As of Thursday morning, there were 14 copies of 8480 at a local TRU. This number has been virtually unchanged for over a month. Too bad they're still at full price. :( Jeff (26 years ago, 1-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) The hoses you have received may have come from 6882 Walking Astro Grappler. (URL) 6941 *should* have come with yellow hoses w/ black ends. I would suspect that the seller substituted the hoses for some reason. Duane (26 years ago, 1-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I always thought that "microfig scale" refered to anything that was too small for Minifigs. Jeff (26 years ago, 1-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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i recently acquired a blacktron I battrax (6941) in used condition and the hoses that came with the set were translucent as opposed to the opaque hoses pictured in the instructions. it isn't a big deal, i'm just curious if some of these sets (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Numbers and Letters set, anyone get this?
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Yes, that would be sets 487 & 987 for the letters, and 488 & 988 for the numbers (the 400 series came in early/mid 60's, the 900 series came late 60's-early 70's). All of these sets were printed on 1x1 white bricks. I've got both of the number sets (...) (26 years ago, 1-Feb-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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