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Hi, folks, Forgive the rather broad initial newsgroup distribution -- there's a method to my madness. Followups are set into a single newsgroup that many people may filter -- namely, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands. I have heard tell of a very useful (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.build, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) funny you should ask... i just got a handful of these very tyco pieces in my wednesday fotw! both douple-genders, even: in blue, a lt gray, and dark olive (military) green. this fotw one of those deals where you get a forestmen's river (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) i'll just tag onto craig's message with this scan: (URL) in the lower half of the page and you'll see the parts craig describes. ..joseph g (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) It seems to me that I've seen a single stud double male part also (I'll have to dig into my clone-brands bucket tonight). I've also not checked what the actual thickness of the double male part is, it definitely is going to cause glitches in (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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Why don't people ask me? I'm one of the BEST resident experts on clones and clone piece types. Tyco made male to male gender changers. They unfortunately have a 1/6 bick space that the studs attatch to. (For those that need help understanding the (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) Megabloks has the double-male pieces in 2x2x1/3 size. They are quite common, and I believe in several colours (although being a castle person, grey is what I remember most). (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) And, I hasten to add in a shameless bit of self-promotion, it will be one of the parts featured in my forthcoming CLONE.DATs release for use with LDraw, hopefully to be rolled out this weekend. Thanks to the very helpful efforts of Tore (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) Aw, Rich, that hurts! You know I'm also a quite rabid apologist for clones! Dave! (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) Yes Dave, I know. You - me, a few others, (Joseph Gonzalez to be notable as well). But how many know how many colors these things come in? (Some of my close WAMALUG peers would say, that's a bad thing, but I don't care.) Rich -- Have Fun! (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: The mythical gender-changing plates
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(...) Hmm... You raise a good point, and you also bring to mind another question: Do you have any idea how many "non-standard" clone pieces there are? That is, pieces that aren't readily equated, in terms of shape, to existing Lego pieces? That (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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I have some old tyco sets floating around, and I remember a gender changing plate with studs on both sides, but the plate itself was about 1/3 the thickness of a normal lego plate. I've never used it in any of my lego models because I like to use (...) (25 years ago, 31-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) Are we gonna stick with things that have a stud, and/or "hole," or that can be held onto by a minifig hand, (dowel {sp?} diameter), or are we gonna go the "full" spectrum. This would includ any non-standard minifigs, and any accessories that (...) (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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Richard Schamus wrote in message ... (...) You've been making misteaks again, you must have just been testing our knowledge that the part is 2x2 not 4x4... Frank (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) When Brad Justus first posted to Lugnet and RTL, this TYCO element as a Lego knockoff was on my short list of initial requests. The female counterpart element is just as useful though. But, as has been pointed out by many responding to this (...) (25 years ago, 1-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) OOOPs! Where was my mind at. (I was "thinking" 4's... 2x2). Sorry for any "mess with the people" stuff. (How many times do I have to type it?) 2x2 2x2 2x2 2x2 2x2 ... Rich -- Have Fun! C-Ya! Legoman34 ***** Legoman34 (Richard W. Schamus)... (...) (25 years ago, 2-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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John J. Ladasky Jr. wrote in message ... (...) there (...) brand/ (...) parts? (...) would (...) be one (...) I have no exhaustive reply, but I can say what I know. Tyco distributed converters like this with some sets in the mid-to-late-80s. I do (...) (25 years ago, 4-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Gender-changing plates -- in new MegaBlocks sets?
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(...) [actually 2 X 2, as noted by another poster] (...) O.K., for the first time my local TRU has a rather large selection of MegaBlocks. I was impressed with the high price:part ratio in their sets, and some of the models actually looked quite (...) (25 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Gender-changing plates -- in new MegaBlocks sets?
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(...) with (...) John, bite the bullet and find that battleship set, I have sixteen of them. It sells out at the stores I frequent too. Heaps of light grey bricks, light grey plates, black plates and transparent 1x1 cylinder elements. (some plates (...) (25 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) I've got inventories of some of them on my site. According to those, the #9761 Desert Patrol has 11 tan double-sided 2x2's. That's all I see, but I don't have inventories of the #9745 WaveBreaker or of the two new smaller green military sets (...) (25 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) There are about a dozen or so in the USS Kitthawk aircraft carrier. All light grey in colour (like most of that set). Kerry (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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