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| | | Lego does have offices in Hong Kong, I don't know about the rest of China. Interestingly, there is a Chinese Lego rip-off that they sell in some of the dollar-stores here in Canada. The packaging (box shape and colours) is the same, the pieces are (...) (25 years ago, 28-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Lego In Chu? —Kevin Wilson
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| | | | (...) Yep, I've seen those too. The name on the box is rather appropriate: "SHIFTY". The box art is not just like Lego, it *is* the Lego art for those sets: sometimes you can even see the lego logo in the pieces in the picture. I bought one a while (...) (25 years ago, 28-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Lego In Chu? —Jeff Thompson
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| | | | (...) Do you have a scanner? I think the LEGO community would be interested in seeing this -- clones are always of interest, and a direct rip-off like that would be, too. If you put pictures of the sets up on the web, they could be forwarded to (...) (25 years ago, 28-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Lego In Chu? —Tom Boucher
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| | | | | You might do a search for Shifty. There was a scan and some images posted on line a few months ago by someone. I don't remember if it was here on Lugnet or RTL. Tom "Nephilim" <jthompson@esker.com> wrote in message news:FLx7IC.Koz@lugnet.com... (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Lego In Chu? —Scott W. Runyan
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| | | | Nephilim <jthompson@esker.com> wrote in message news:FLx7IC.Koz@lugnet.com... (...) Right here, thanks to Chris Doyle (URL) is not a toy, it's a way of life. Build on! ScottR swrunyan@uswest.net (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Lego In Chu? —Jeff Thompson
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| | | | | (...) Ack! What a surprise to see the old red soldier figure. I hate to say this, but if I found a store stocking this stuff, I'd buy multiple copies of that set (if the quality wasn't tooo heinous) just for that figure. (Then I'd hate myself for (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Lego In Chu? —Paul Davidson
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| | | | | | | If you saw it in real life, you wouldn't want it. It looks really bad next to real Lego. -- Paul Davidson, aka Tinman (URL) "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine." Nephilim <jthompson@esker.com> wrote in (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Lego In Chu? —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | | | Nephilim wrote [re: Shifty]: (...) If, that is, the soldiers inside were really red. Didn't this thread come up before regarding SHIFTY? That what was in the box didn't even come close to matching what was on the box (the image being, as it is, a (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Lego In Chu? —Bryan Wong
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| | | | | (...) On Chris Doyle's website, he mentions the existence of 9603. Um, err... I am NOT at all proud to announce that I have the missing set. It's an evil duplicate of set #1713 Shipwrecked Pirate. Fortunately, it's not currently in my possession. (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Lego In Chu? —Tamyra Teed
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| | | | | (...) I saw the "Royal King" set when I was in Manitoba last christmas in the dollar store, The box made the set look pretty good, though I happened to find an open one on the shelf and the horse looked like Sh*t. I almost picked it up though (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Lego In Chu? —Bryan Wong
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| | | | | | (...) Heh, I call these sets "Shitfy" without the "F"! But seriously, the quality is REALLY bad. These bricks make MegaBlocks look good. The instructions are like colour photocopies. The color is way off, and the printing on the minifigs (I can't (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Lego In Chu? —Kevin Wilson
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| | | | | (...) pirate one, and you can actually read the Lego logo on the shovel on the box art. The pieces inside are crappily moulded and the colors don't match Lego colors. In some sets the colors are totally different from the box art (eg red instead of (...) (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Lego In Chu? —Jeff Stembel
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| | | | (...) At the LL Carlsbad Legofest some fellow AFOLs from Japan brought one of these. It wasn't any of the sets that've been mentioned so far; I believe it was the Paradisa motorboat. Jeff (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Lego In Chu? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) Yes, I got one in a trade. Worth having for the novelty value but boy are they bad. I suspect that TLG won't take action without some sort of assistance, if we could trace these a few steps back in the direction of the source, it might help. (25 years ago, 29-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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