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Anyone else seen this?
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lugnet.loc.au
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Fri, 22 Jun 2001 01:44:31 GMT
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Hi,
I was in my local toy-store today, getting a monster mask for a birthday
party tomorrow, and I saw what has to be only of the most blatant Lego
rip-offs that I've ever seen.
It was a 'Chess' set. The logo that showed the 'Chess' was exactly the same
as the Lego logo, just a different word inside. It looked so close that the
first couple of times, my mind actually substituted the 'lego', and I
thought that I was looking at a Lego set. :) I can't remember the name of
the maker, something trivial. It was made in China.
The actual product was a chess-set made of minifigs and small 4*4
baseplates. The bodies of the chess-men weren't Lego rip-offs, they were a
neat 2*2 round body that looks pretty much like a regular chess piece, but
with dimples on the base so they could latch onto the baseplate studs.
The pieces all had arms, heads, with helmets and crowns etc, and these
pieces looked like they had just stepped straight out of Legoland. I
couldn't judge the scale of the studs and pieces from the box, but they
looked pretty close to that of Lego's.
All up, the set cost $29.99, down from $39.99, and if you're looking for a
lego-ish chess set, and are not phased (oops fazed, been spending too much
time discussing particle theory.:) ) by rip-offs, then this looks like a
pretty good buy.
later,
David Drew
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| (...) Spotted four of these on the weekend at the wee toyshop in Macquarie centre outside Tah-zhay (home of the $1.50 mini-sets...). $30. The fig-heads look like they are closely related to the folk of King Leo's castle. Highly recommended to anyone (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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