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Subject: 
Re: "Lego" from China Sets?????
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands
Date: 
Mon, 20 May 2002 23:03:43 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Morten Soerensen writes:
In lugnet.general, John Heins writes:
Anyone else know anything about the sets listed on eBay - allegedly by Lego
for sale only in China?  See the link below for one of many.

http://cgi.aol.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1732671764

This one is a good giveaway:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1732671761

The brand is "Shifty" rather than "BRICK"... Shifty we already know well,
it's total cack.

I was taken with how 1/2 of these are very "accurate copies" while the other
half are a wild mishmash of elements of many colors that don't hang together
well esthetitically speaking.

See also this post:
http://news.lugnet.com/off-topic/clone-brands/?n=1272

which is an independent thread but same auctions I think.

FUT off-topic.clone



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  Re: "Lego" from China Sets?????
 
(...) ALLERT ALLERT These sets listed as compatibel with lego is NOT compatibel at all, I've bought a few sets with the same brand name in Poland for fun to see what it was like, it's plastic crap where the figs for an example is parted up in many (...) (23 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.general)

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