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shame on me for responding to my own post, but i found where i had put some images for the godzilla stuff: (URL) ghidorah is actually the cooler of the two sets (godzilla looks more like an alley cat on steroids) but i found it interesting the way (...) (23 years ago, 6-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | kawada blocks (Re: Tyco Superblocks page)
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kawada IS pretty poopy but i really enjoy the 10-inch godzilla models for displaying purposes and would probably still be willing to pay a ridiculous price if i were to see someone selling the gamera model (to go with the godzilla and ghidorah (...) (23 years ago, 6-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | my collecting status (Re: Tyco Superblocks page. . . )
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(...) 1) i don't have as much time to spend on the hobby, 2) i was saddened at the direction lego had gone (though they are making some interesting improvements: re-releasing older sets, ucs/sculpture sets, MUCH improved train stuff) 3) i needed (...) (23 years ago, 6-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Tyco Superblocks page (Re: What ever happened to the copycat brand TYCO?)
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james! dude! i had linked to your page while it was at avana-something, couldn't find the old page and wasn't aware you had moved your site. i'm glad you posted (i had borrowed your blocko image for the construction clones page but couldn't find (...) (23 years ago, 6-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Tyco Superblocks page (Re: What ever happened to the copycat brand TYCO?)
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I have a list of a few others on an old web page of clones: (URL) still seen each of these around today. jt In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Dave Schuler writes: <snip> (...) (23 years ago, 6-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Tyco Superblocks page (Re: What ever happened to the copycat brand TYCO?)
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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Joseph Gonzalez writes: couple of years. (...) Boy, that Kawada stuff is awful. I bought a few small kits on eBay and was surprised at how unsatisfying they were. I could probably be called clone-friendly, and I (...) (23 years ago, 6-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Tyco Superblocks page (Re: What ever happened to the copycat brand TYCO?)
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(...) You getting out of the hobby entirely, or just changing financial priorities, IFDMMAY? (23 years ago, 6-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Tyco Superblocks page (Re: What ever happened to the copycat brand TYCO?)
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(...) yup i've been liquidating almost all of my lego and lego-related stuff over the past couple of years. all that's left is a few lego, mega-blok (oddly enough, the mega-blok stuff is increasing in quantity lately) and a couple of kawada sets. (...) (23 years ago, 6-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Tyco Superblocks page (Re: What ever happened to the copycat brand TYCO?)
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(...) Did you sell it? (23 years ago, 6-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Tyco Superblocks page (Re: What ever happened to the copycat brand TYCO?)
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hi aaron i never did actually see the castle you mention. i only had the large black knight's castle and now i don't even have that. i always wanted to find the red castle (i think it was part of a combo pack). ..joseph g (...) (23 years ago, 6-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Tyco Superblocks page (Re: What ever happened to the copycat brand TYCO?)
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(...) (snip) (...) Ever feel intimidated by a row of MegaBlok cavalry? Hard to, when they are all falling off their horses. I have had the Tyco Black castle for 15 years or so, so I may be nostalgic, but I like the minifigs in that set. While I did (...) (23 years ago, 6-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Tyco Superblocks page (Re: What ever happened to the copycat brand TYCO?)
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(...) Actually, you don't. I LOVE Tyco bricks, but not because the minifigures are cool -- because they are not*. Although they seem to forget this simple fact and produce some really weird stuff from time to time (I am not digging these HP minis (...) (23 years ago, 6-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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Cruel site of the day (www.cruel.com), 4 November 2001 Rest in Interlocking Plastic Piece Pyra Development wants to put fun back into funerals: Turn cremated people into 18-by-18-by-21 inch plastic bricks and build a 24-story-tall LEGO pyramid -- or (...) (23 years ago, 6-Nov-01, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Tyco Superblocks page (Re: What ever happened to the copycat brand TYCO?)
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(...) Thanks for putting that up, Joseph. Ever see the big castle with the Yellow visored Knights anywhere? Me want... (23 years ago, 5-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Tyco Superblocks page (Re: What ever happened to the copycat brand TYCO?)
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...in the process of updating clone info, the unofficial tyco page is back: (URL) g (...) (23 years ago, 5-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) I picked up the Prancing Pony set this weekend and was pleasantly surprised. While the design is very simple, and the piece:price ratio isn't great regardless of talking Blox, the number of 2x4 bricks is impressive. As I mentioned elsewhere, (...) (23 years ago, 5-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: New Construction Toy In LDraw Format
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(...) Writing them, I primarily used a text editor, LEdit, and L3Lab. I'm not entirely comfortable with the way MLCad displays on my tiny monitor, so I didn't examine the clones too thoroughly in that system. Do you know what that error message (...) (23 years ago, 5-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: What ever happened to the copycat brand TYCO?
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(...) Thank you for pointing out that there is an area for it. (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: New Construction Toy In LDraw Format
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Dave! I haven't resolved the aforementioned issues, but I did spend more time with the clones in the various LDraw programs. And... ...they SO rock, Baby! I probably would not have made the effort to make the MB minifigure, or to have included what (...) (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: New Construction Toy In LDraw Format
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(...) 1. I get some weird File 4 error 2. An error message telling me that c020103c.dat has an error at line 62 3. c020106b.dat seems to be missing? d. And there is also a missing file at S/973p40a.dat, but I am not sure this relates to the clones (...) (23 years ago, 4-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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