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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Dave Schuler writes:
> Thank you, Maggie and Aaron, for the information. I won that second
> auction, so I'll give a review of the set when I receive it.
I received the item today, and it's, well, sort of weird. I've given it
only a cursory inspection, but the plastic appears to be PVC, and the parts
are packaged on a couple of sprues. The odd thing is that nearly all of the
parts are direct copies of LEGO bricks, minus the LEGO logo. It really
looks like someone made a cast of a bunch of LEGO parts and went into
business. Included the inventory are the Tile 1x2 Grille, Plate 1x2 single
stud, Wedge 4x4 triple inverted, and a few other LEGO-specific pieces. The
quality seems not too terrible, as clones go, but I can't imagine why LEGO
hasn't made some kind of fuss about these direct knock-offs. They're a much
more blatant clone than MegaBloks or TYCO, even going so far as to name the
product line "System 2000." I wonder if perhaps the sprue system makes
these bricks sufficiently different from LEGO to avoid patent issues. Hmm...
> > BTW I believe Markson Products supplies the dollar-type stores with cheap
> > general merchandise, so these sets could be from stores such as those.
> > They had a helicopter in another brand with trans light blue 1x2 curved
> > bricks for the windshield, but the quality appeared atrocious and anyway I
> > find trips into such stores a real downer.
I've now seen those other sets you mentioned. They're a different brand
from Markson, and the quality is even worse than I figured. At $1.00, the
sets are badly overpriced.
Dave!
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| (...) ?? Really?? Not some sort of Styrene but Poly Vinyl Chloride, the stuff that those offwhite household sewage pipes are made of? That's wild. I would have expected Polystyrene (which is not as good as ABS, the "better" styrene) for this usage. (...) (23 years ago, 26-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| (...) I have a few of those stores in my area--I'll check their supply. (...) If you're talking about ATCO, then you're right, and one cannot say enough bad things about them. Thank you, Maggie and Aaron, for the information. I won that second (...) (23 years ago, 13-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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