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Has anyone else noticed that the latest UK edition of the Lego Club Magazine features Mega-Bloks? Look on the page of readers' models, and in the bottom-left is a picture of Mega-Bloks' mid-blue/yellow/tran...ish-yellow "9743 Pro Builder® Blue (...) (23 years ago, 25-Mar-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands) !
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(...) Wow. That's really inexcusable. Sad. :^( ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head -- Mark's LEGO(R) Creations (URL) (23 years ago, 25-Mar-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Is this material scan-able (in terms of copyright)? I'd love to see the picture, since the official MB model includes some obviously non-LEGO elements. (Might the education-and-criticism clause of the fair use polices cover this kind of (...) (23 years ago, 25-Mar-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Whoa! You're kidding, right? (...) Scary...let's just hope Lego doesn't do this again... ;^( (...) Who knows?! I certainly hope this was a mistake, although the chances of mega-blocks getting into the Lego UK magazine are slim on their own. (...) (23 years ago, 25-Mar-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.dear-lego)
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"Matt Hein" <Pyrokid17@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GtJzAv.MpM@lugnet.com... (...) Magazine (...) of (...) Angels (...) This isn't the first time this has happened. (URL) they either did not know or did not solve the problem. I can't believe (...) (23 years ago, 26-Mar-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.dear-lego)
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"Dave Schuler" <orrex@excite.com> wrote in message news:GtJGJ2.C79@lugnet.com... (...) of (...) Angels (...) polices (...) I agree. I would love to see a scan of this or of the earlier Mega Blok model that got in the magazine. -Jon -- | The Galactic (...) (23 years ago, 26-Mar-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) He might be. April is fast approaching... --Bill. (23 years ago, 26-Mar-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.dear-lego)
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[snip] (...) Well everything I have read on Lugnet about TLC, seems to indicate that they operate in a bubble. They do not recognize the fact that Mega Bloks is a serious competitor. I would not be surprised if the Lego upper management does not (...) (23 years ago, 26-Mar-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) That's shocking. I'm speculating now, but I wonder how many pictures of kids with genuine LEGO COTS models actually get sent in to the magazine and get filtered out? I mean, would you think of sending in a picture of a known set? Probably not. (...) (23 years ago, 26-Mar-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) <snip> Possibly I'm missing the point but I'd swear there was a kid with a (genuine) Lego set built to the original design published in the Australian/Asian equivalent of the mag sometime over the past 8 editions (2 years) which is as long as (...) (23 years ago, 26-Mar-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.loc.au)
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"Jason J Railton" <j.j.railton@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:GtJCzy.2Lq@lugnet.com... (...) Magazine (...) picture of (...) Builder® (...) Angels (...) Reality is that I would bet the magazine is put together by folks with little real (...) (23 years ago, 26-Mar-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) Yep: Number 1, 1999: Chen Jia En (Hong Kong)has a model remarkably like the small exploriens base [a couple of VERY minor differences] Couldn't find last December, so that's probably the one you're thinking of...though almost every magazine (...) (23 years ago, 27-Mar-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Indeed. The current issue has one kid displaying a collection of made up sets (including a Galaxy Explorer)... can't remember the name, but from the UK I think. Cheers Richie Dulin (23 years ago, 27-Mar-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.loc.au)
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