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Subject:	Re: Are you going to tell them or am I?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.dear-lego
Date:	Tue, 26 Mar 2002 00:08:38 GMT
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"Matt Hein" <Pyrokid17@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GtJzAv.MpM@lugnet.com... > In lugnet.loc.uk, Mark Sandlin writes: > > In lugnet.loc.uk, Jason J. Railton writes: > > > Has anyone else noticed that the latest UK edition of the Lego Club • Magazine > > > features Mega-Bloks? > > Whoa! You're kidding, right? > > > > Look on the page of readers' models, and in the bottom-left is a picture • of > > > Mega-Bloks' mid-blue/yellow/trans-luminous-ish-yellow "9743 Pro Builder® > > > Blue Thunder", their take on the F/A-18 Hornet of the US Navy's Blue • Angels > > > Display Team. > > Scary...let's just hope Lego doesn't do this again... ;^( > > > > Do you think they know yet? This isn't the first time this has happened. http://news.lugnet.com/general/?n=25129 Apparantly they either did not know or did not solve the problem. I can't believe they would let this happen (twice). Displaying a real model as a reader's model is bad enough but not even noticing its a Mega Blok model is nuts. -Jon -- | The Galactic Shipyard - http://www.dallas.net/~jpalmer/GS/ | My Lego Creations - http://www.dallas.net/~jpalmer/lego/ | Attack of the Bricks - http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=jpalmer

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		Re: Are you going to tell them or am I?
[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)

		Re: Are you going to tell them or am I?
(...) 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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		Re: Are you going to tell them or am I?
(...) 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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