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Re: A fan no more
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Tue, 13 Jul 2004 00:00:14 GMT
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In lugnet.general, William R. Ward wrote:
The only advantage to the one on the right is that it's obviously LEGO to the
novice eye.  The lack of studs on the left one may fool the casual observer
into thinking it's some other brand of construction toy.

The ironic thing is that there is no TECHNIC clone on the market (making the one
on the left more distinctly "LEGO"), and parents often get confused about what
is truly LEGO product vs. what is a clone product.



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  Re: A fan no more
 
(...) I wasn't talking about clones; I was talking about other types of toys like K'Nex. But you're right, it's an interesting irony that the one on the right might be closer to say MegaBlocks than the one on the left. (20 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: A fan no more
 
(...) The advantage of Technic bricks over liftarms comes when you want to add some Technic features (gears, etc.) to a mostly-non-Technic model. But for a purely Technic model like these dune buggies, the studless liftarms provide a much cleaner (...) (20 years ago, 12-Jul-04, to lugnet.general)

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