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Re: Lego In Chu?
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Sun, 28 Nov 1999 18:16:58 GMT
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Paul Davidson wrote:

> 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 the same, the themes are the same (Adventurers, etc.).

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 back intending to send it to Lego and
bring their attention to it (clones are OK, direct ripoffs are not) but
haven't got around to it yet.

Kevin

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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 (...) (27 years ago, 28-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: Lego In Chu?
 
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 (...) (27 years ago, 28-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)

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