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Re: Old LEGO Clone bricks made by Nintendo
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Date: 
Fri, 8 Mar 2002 02:59:01 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jon Palmer writes:
I've been searching through a ton of Japanese Lego sites to add to a link
list in the future.  One of the stranger things I found (and I've found a
lot of strange stuff) is a site with some pics of old LEGO clone bricks that
appear to be made by Nintendo-- called N&B Block.

http://home7.highway.ne.jp/clublego/deai/deai3.html

I knew what Nintendo made toys before they made games but I had no idea they
made a LEGO clone.

Some interesting things on the page:

-First check out the old Nintendo logo in the bottom left of the first
image.
-Interesting "peanut" 2x5 bricks
-In the 3rd image look at all the cool round pieces. 4 cone pieces that
stacked up to a point.
-The 4th image has a shot of the sets.  Looks very much like old school LEGO
sets.
-chrome silver bricks
-weird fairy tell sets at the bottom.

Anybody in the west or in Japan have any more information on these?  I can't
tell the date on them but it looks like sometime in the 70's.

-Jon

It doesn't surprise me that Nintendo, at one time, made toys such as this.
Some of the pieces are very cool, I like the stacking cones, I wish Lego
would do something like that, as they would make a great "point" at the end
to a weapon or perhaps a galvanized arm on a large mecha or something.
The Nintendo company was originally started somewhere around 1887,
originally producing playing cards. Through the history of the company, they
have produced many different products; these Lego-like bricks are just one
example.



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