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Subject: 
Re: Interesting retail pack
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lugnet.lego.direct
Date: 
Mon, 5 Aug 2002 20:18:36 GMT
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On Mon, 5 Aug 2002 19:27:13 GMT, "Christopher Weeks"
<clweeks@eclipse.net> wrote:

In lugnet.lego.direct, David Eaton writes:
In lugnet.lego.direct, Troy Cefaratti writes:
Would anyone from LEgo care to comment on this:

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/kkoleda/meetings/August2002/pic00015.jpg


I vote for a pretty good fake.  If you look at the reflections on the plastic
surface of the blister pack and track them around, you can see one that
traverses the price tag.  How do they get the price tag under the plastic?

And the blister plastic seems to over extend the cardboard at least on the left
side of the image.

But pretty cool, really.

Chris

Well, if it is a fake, it appears that someone went to the trouble to
actually make one, as it shows up on the table in these other shots in
the same gallery:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=222086
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=222087

C



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XFUT: Off-topic.fun (...) plastic (...) left (...) pictures. But that does not prove or disprove that the item in question is or is NOT a genuine Lego product. My vote is that it is NOT a genuine Lego product. If it were, I would call it the lamest (...) (22 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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(...) [snip] (...) I vote for a pretty good fake. If you look at the reflections on the plastic surface of the blister pack and track them around, you can see one that traverses the price tag. How do they get the price tag under the plastic? And the (...) (22 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)

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