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(URL) said. (if you read webcomics and you're NOT reading this one, you should be... Go all the way back to the beginning, take your time, and enjoy...) (20 years ago, 1-Apr-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Question about a call for a contest
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(...) Good questions, Dave! I've raised this with the Admin team... We'll mull this over and get back to you with an answer with our usual alacrity(1)... this contest doesn't start for a month or two I hope?(1) ++Lar XFUT to just .terms 1 - that's (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-05, to lugnet.admin.terms, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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Not sure in which .admin forum this belongs; please FUT as appropriate. I'd like to call for a simple contest involving clone bricks and I wondered if it would be appropriate to make announce it in .build.contests, in .build.mecha, in .announce, in (...) (20 years ago, 29-Mar-05, to lugnet.admin.terms, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Spotted! Liberals on my layout!
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(...) Crikey! Don't lump me in with that clone-lover Courtney;-) I doubt you could handle the Truth™, Dave! ;^D JOHN (20 years ago, 28-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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| | Re: ISD Build competition
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(...) Jeez! I hadn't done the math and didn't realize that the SSD was quite so huge. The excellent radio program (URL) This American Life> ran a (URL) story> about living aboard the aircraft carrier (URL) John Stennis.> One person had the tedious (...) (20 years ago, 28-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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(...) Oh! In that case, it's probably ATCO. That's a bummer, because ATCO is from the lower end of the clone spectrum--a pariah among pariahs. And I'm confident that you and Tim Courtney have huge stashes of clone bricks; you both protest too much, (...) (20 years ago, 28-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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| | Re: Pyrates teaser @ Megabloks.com
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(...) Woohoo! Once again Mr. Connick comes through with the scoop. Excellent news--thanks! Dave! (20 years ago, 24-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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| | Re: Pyrates teaser @ Megabloks.com
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(...) Dave, Pyrates have 3 different release dates: May: Pyrates Treasure Pack Assortment (Pieces of Eight, Hidden Loot, Burried Bounty) each about $5.99 and each set comes in a cloth galeon bag. June: Skull Cave Assortment (Maroon Gally, Mutiny (...) (20 years ago, 24-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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(...) (URL) Here's> a showcase of a recently unveiled ground-based vehicle, designed for leisurely travel over medium terrain. A few older vehicles are also featured on the page. Dave! (20 years ago, 24-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.space, FTX)
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(URL) Here you go.> If nothing else, we get a scheduled release date. If the link doesn't work, just go to the (URL) main page> and keep Refreshing until you see the Pyrates promotional flash. Dave! (20 years ago, 22-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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| | Re: review: Chinese "Bricks" military sets
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(...) I believe that (URL) these> are the pieces in question. Dave! (20 years ago, 21-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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(...) Woo-hoo! Once again the anonymous tipster has come through with the goods! Check out (URL) shots> of Dread Eye's Phantom! I expect that it's modular like the previous ships' hulls, and the pieces are clearly very specialized, but I love the (...) (20 years ago, 21-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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(...) Don't care for C3 stuff but I can see why they used it. Great movie. Impressive that they got such big name voice talent. LOVED how the copter fell apart... thanks for hosting it on your site! (20 years ago, 19-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) Ah-ha! Looking again at the picture of set 0279, I see which bricks you mean. I have four of these in dark gray from Oxford set 15000. They're pretty neat. (...) It helps a lot--thanks! Though I'm a huge fan of clone bricks, I don't like (...) (20 years ago, 19-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) Ok, the panel was my mis-writing: it IS a 2x1x5 brick like your Tyco. The plates are indeed the same height as LEGO plates; they have tubes on the underside, but not completely covering the underside, there are two "lanes" of missing tubes. (...) (20 years ago, 18-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) Thanks, Adrian! Dave! (20 years ago, 18-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) Yes, the standard used to be 8 bricks high, but was changed to 10 to provide more clearance for trains and monorails to go under moonbase connections. Adrian (20 years ago, 18-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) I built this connector a long time ago and never got around to designing the base that's supposed to be attached to it. Anyway, do I remember correctly that the Moonbase Module standards were changed a while back? I seem to recall that floor (...) (20 years ago, 18-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) I'm glad you posted this as I've been thinking of doing the same but couldn't decide if it should go anywhere other than .clone-brands. That being said because of your question below (and my answer to it) I'm going to cross-post this to (...) (20 years ago, 18-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.animation, lugnet.general)
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(...) Thanks for posting this link. A little bird told me about the film, but I didn't think to link to it here for some reason. I wish my work computer had Quicktime, because I still haven't been able to view the movie! (...) MegaBloks doesn't make (...) (20 years ago, 18-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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My understanding was that they rendered Lego elements to build the sets out of, and then used the C3 Batman as the main character. Jon (...) (20 years ago, 18-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(URL) wonderful little CG movie. I don't know how the students got Adam West, DVD, et. al, to do the film, but it was really well done, and the voices were wonderful. Anyway, I've also uploaded the movie to my webserver, so if the website link above (...) (20 years ago, 18-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: review: Chinese "Bricks" military sets
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(...) Hello Arne! Thank you for the thorough review. I have very little exposure to this brand of bricks, and I appreciate any info I can get. I’m particularly interested in the 10x20 plates. Are they the same height as LEGO plates? And do they have (...) (20 years ago, 18-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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Hi, As a Dane I am of course an avid protector of the LEGO brand, but never the less I have occasionally strayed into the clone worlds ( I have a number of MegaBloks dragon sets, and like them a lot - not the dragons, but the bricks). My latest (...) (20 years ago, 18-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: MOC: Apocryphal Blacktron Mech
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(...) Inspired by Mark Walsh's very nice (URL) Desperado,> I thought I'd take a swipe at another Apocryphal Blacktron mech. I haven't seen much by Mark here on LUGNET, but his folder is well worth browsing for some cool variations on Space themes. I (...) (20 years ago, 14-Mar-05, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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| | Re: Cool new Lego sculptures at ToysRUs.... Wait a minute, is that?!?!?
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(...) Well, I can't speak with any certainty of Mega Blocks parts, since I have NO idea what they make one way or the other.... But I CAN tell you that Lego doesn't use non standard parts (well, not anymore). The last year I was at the park, the (...) (20 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Cool new Lego sculptures at ToysRUs.... Wait a minute, is that?!?!?
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(...) Was it this one by any chance? (URL) can't tell from the picture what the non-released parts might be, but I'll take your word for it. I was in NYC in February 2002 but I can't remember the displays all that well. A big dragon is the only (...) (20 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) Nice photo. The warrior is new style, but that TRU had a life-size bronze knight sculpture from the first wave of Dragons (2002). When I saw it, my first thought was: just like Lego, they've built it entirely from parts that have never been (...) (20 years ago, 10-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) I'm not necessarily bothered by specialized elements (and I have long argued that anyone interested in LEGO trains CAN NOT be bothered by specialized elements), but mostly I'm bothered that the Megabloks elements don't fit stylistically with (...) (20 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) Ah--now I get it. And I guess it's true; a bunch of people in ot.clones have lamented the over-specialization of elements in the Dragons line. Heck(1), I myself have griped about the difficulty of LDraw-rendering all of those faux wood-grain (...) (20 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) (URL) this link,> exactly as I'd hoped. (...) (URL) deck rats!> I first thought that those barrels are the same as the (...) There is a difference between those older sets and the current sets though. The older sets LOOK like a construction (...) (20 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) The hull is sectional, as can be seen in the instruction for the Man O' War 9895 that appears to use the same hull design: (URL) the moment I can't seem to find the post in which you criticized LEGO for having similarly modular Pirate (...) (20 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) (URL) this link,> exactly as I'd hoped. (...) (URL) deck rats!> I first thought that those barrels are the same as the (...) Hmm, looks like a stylized plastic model with a few studs. MEGABLOKS are looking less and less like a construction (...) (20 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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In lugnet.gaming.brikwars, Mike Rayhawk wrote: ... (...) (URL) Her nemesis.> -Suz (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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Ho ho... I love getting my LUGNET delivered by e-mail. If someone were to cancel a post, say Suz for example, I still get it, thus alleviating any sense of mystery. And may I add, that was just wrong, wrong, WRONG! :) -Evil Wayne (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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I've been painting new versions of the (URL) Deadly Spaceman> for years, one for each time a new edition of BrikWars gets posted. But QuikWars' mascot (a Warfang figure from Mega Bloks' first-year Dragons sets), on the other hand, has until now been (...) (20 years ago, 6-Mar-05, to lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX) !!
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(...) X-Posting to .Pirates in the good-faith interest of sharing information. FUT back to ot.clones only. An anonymous tipster, who previously helped with some (URL) TMNT info> has stepped forward again to provide (URL) link,> exactly as I'd hoped. (...) (20 years ago, 28-Feb-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) That's plenty! Thanks for this excellent info--I'm really intrigued by the Pyrates line, because it looks as though the minfigs have knees and elbows and possibly ball-and-socket shoulder and hip joints. I only wish that MP had given more (...) (20 years ago, 27-Feb-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) You make a good distinction between film-character and comic-character rights, but it might not apply across the board in this case. Although LEGO did indeed have the tie-in rights for the Spiderman films, it appears that MEGABLOKS has (...) (20 years ago, 27-Feb-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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