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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)
| | | | | Clones & Tente
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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)
| | | | | Re: Clones & Tente
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| (...) Well hmm. I see your point. I would put forth an argument that while LUGNET is not here to foster discussion outside its charter (if you allow other construction systems, do you then allow ALL toys??? Where does it stop), a narrowly focused (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
| | | | | Re: Clones & Tente
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| removed admin.general on this followup, it's not admin.. (...) More than one dimension here. One is, how compatible is it. (do studs and plugs mate? How many different kinds of mates? just the basic stud, or does rod system mate as well, how about (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | | | Re: tente page
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| lugnet.off-topic.alt...es-to-lego -- Steven | svore at mindspring .com | kf4fbk | TC++MS++#15LS+M+HalYB64m (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
| | | | | Re: Clones & Tente
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| (...) But Tente could be considered a clone, because it is based on a top-stud-joining-brick-bottom system. But it's 0% compatible. As opposed to K'nex, which is 0% clone, 100% competitor. Steve (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | | | Re: Clones & Tente
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| (...) I've got some TENTE space figures to go with figure scale spaceships - the same size as LEGO ones. Steve Bliss wrote: (...) I think the top-stud-joining-brick-bottom should be the rule appiled to any such 'Clone' newsgroup to prevent the (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | | | Re: Clones & Tente
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| (...) Really? Somewhere, I have a tente "astronaut". He's in little yellow body armour, head/helmet and torso one piece, arms one piece each, and legs one piece. His feet have four of the thin Tente prongs that fit inside the holes on top off the (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | | | Re: Clones & Tente
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| (...) My trucks are circa 1979. (...) And I saw some of these figs in the oil rig set that JG posted. These are circa 1991. I dunno when the figs first appeared but it was well after my trucks. So I'm gonna stick by what I said. The trucks that (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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