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Old LEGO Clone bricks made by Nintendo
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Thu, 7 Mar 2002 20:41:32 GMT
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I've been searching through a ton of Japanese Lego sites to add to a link
list in the future.  One of the stranger things I found (and I've found a
lot of strange stuff) is a site with some pics of old LEGO clone bricks that
appear to be made by Nintendo-- called N&B Block.

http://home7.highway.ne.jp/clublego/deai/deai3.html

I knew what Nintendo made toys before they made games but I had no idea they
made a LEGO clone.

Some interesting things on the page:

-First check out the old Nintendo logo in the bottom left of the first
image.
-Interesting "peanut" 2x5 bricks
-In the 3rd image look at all the cool round pieces. 4 cone pieces that
stacked up to a point.
-The 4th image has a shot of the sets.  Looks very much like old school LEGO
sets.
-chrome silver bricks
-weird fairy tell sets at the bottom.

Anybody in the west or in Japan have any more information on these?  I can't
tell the date on them but it looks like sometime in the 70's.

-Jon

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Message has 6 Replies:
  Re: Old LEGO Clone bricks made by Nintendo
 
Pretty cool - a round-top, paned window! (...) (23 years ago, 7-Mar-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.jp, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
  Re: Old LEGO Clone bricks made by Nintendo
 
(...) There's a mailto: at the bottom of the index page (URL) might be worth a try, maybe they speak english! ROSCO (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.jp, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
  Re: Old LEGO Clone bricks made by Nintendo
 
(...) It doesn't surprise me that Nintendo, at one time, made toys such as this. Some of the pieces are very cool, I like the stacking cones, I wish Lego would do something like that, as they would make a great "point" at the end to a weapon or (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.jp, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
  Re: Old LEGO Clone bricks made by Nintendo
 
(...) The natural shape which is revealed finally. 1999/06/20 Information was received from Hattori, concerning " the ???...??? ", but furthermore the mail was received even from the crowbar ?, the entire picture now, became clear! As for " the (...) (23 years ago, 8-Mar-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.jp, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
  Re: Old LEGO Clone bricks made by Nintendo
 
I think I might have some of those bricks. I have some very long white 2x? plates/semibricks. They are badly bent due to age(?) or hostile climate(?). /Tore (...) (23 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.jp, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
  Re: Old LEGO Clone bricks made by Nintendo
 
The 2x5 "peanuts" look exactly like the reissued NES controllers, looks like they reused a design. (22 years ago, 7-Aug-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.jp, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)

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