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Re: *NEW* LEGO brick-ish Transformers by Hasbro: BTR line
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lugnet.general, lugnet.lego
Date: 
Tue, 27 May 2003 03:09:18 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Aaron West writes:
> In lugnet.general, Andrew Saada writes:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > Well I was just doing a quick read of online news.  I had not been to
> > www.allspark.com, a Transformers fan site, recently so I brought up the
> > page.  After scrolling down I stumbled across this header: Wave 5 Product
> > Catalog Scans - May 22 2003, 10:48 AM containing the text:
> > "In it, you'll find pictures of the Built To Rule Lego Transformers,"
> > 
> > Okay...Wait a sec...WHAT?!?
> > Well, it seems these are official:
> > http://www.tformers.com/article.php?sid=1346
> > PAGES 2, 3, and 4 of that article.
> 
> 
> Did you even LOOK at tformers.com before posting this?
> Geezz!!  I think people believe whatever they want to:
> Once again, please read and pay attention before going of the Deep End.
> Nowhere in Hasbro's product line do they say that these are LEGO products.
> The web site refered to here is NOT anything more than a fan created site
> and CLEARLY states that these toys are "like Legos".  NOWHERE does it say
> "Lego Transformers" as you have quoted.  Anybody who follows Transformers
> toys and the recent New York ToyFare (February, I think) knows that Hasbro
> has been working on a construction toy line and they linked it to their very
> popular Transformers line.  This line is already in the Toys R Us main
> computers starting at very competitive prices.
> They are NOT LEGO.
> -Aaron-
> #279

Aaron,
Yes, I did LOOK at tformers.com before posting this.  No where in my post
did I say that these were official LEGO Transformers.  I quoted a line from
an article headline that I read that led me to the catalogue scans.  I did
not quote "Lego Transformers" by itself--it was within the context of the
"Built to Rule" title; sorry for any confusion.  My thread title uses the
phrase "LEGO brickish" as a compound adjective (I'm not sure of the
technical grammatical name) and within my post I explicitly said that these
toys are
> "joined in the manner of the system originated by the LEGO Company".
While I could have said MEGA Bloks or other imitators, I went with TLC
because they started this remarkable system.
Again, I did not say that these were Transformers made by the LEGO Group.
Furthermore, the questions I posed within the intial thread lead to
discussion of excellent My Own Creation models fans have made and, with
their existence, why a joint venture of such wonderful ideas--Transformers
and LEGO bricks--did not come to fruition.

Sincerely,
Andrew P. Saada


GardenSLUG



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(...) Hi Andrew: I've been casually following the BTR product line for GI Joe, but I've found annoyingly little information online except for a few pictures, and none of my local retailers seem to know anything about them. I suppose this is a Hasbro (...) (23 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)

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(...) Did you even LOOK at tformers.com before posting this? Geezz!! I think people believe whatever they want to: Once again, please read and pay attention before going of the Deep End. Nowhere in Hasbro's product line do they say that these are (...) (23 years ago, 27-May-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)  

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