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Re: Prancing Pony $7.44 at Target (Was Re: Review of LotRs Prancing Pony)
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lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands
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Mon, 21 Jan 2002 17:12:53 GMT
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> > In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Dave Schuler writes:
> > > ... Further, the quality of the plastic is great. I'd never examined
> > > Tandem bricks before, but they appear to be of nearly equal quality to LEGO
> > > bricks, and certainly on par with TYCO Superblocks. The colors are rich and
> > > the bricks connect solidly to one another. [ ... ]
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> Maggie Cambron writes:
> > I too am impressed by the quality. Plus it was extremely well packaged, so
> > pieces don't tend to move around and get scuffed like LEGO pieces [ ... ]
Kevin Johnston writes:
> I like the bricks, but the large plates are lame-- poor binding quality.
> (e.g. the plates that form the base of the two part of the Ferry bind very
> poorly to the bricks that form the base).
My 8-year-old begged to build the Ferry set and found the same thing-- the
bricks don't hold onto the bottom of the 8x16 plates well at all!
BTW that reminds me, a while back when everyone was wondering about the anchor
clones, I noticed that of the ones I had picked up here and there, virtually
all the 1x1 bricks had cracks in the sides.
Maggie
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