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At our local T'R'U this morning I came upon these horrible bastardizations of both The Simpsons AND LEGO...that's right folks! The Blockoland Simpsons figures are finally here: (URL) are AWFUL! There is no rhyme or reason to these toys...though of (...) (23 years ago, 23-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Mega Bloks IPO
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Wow, there is some juicy information in the prospectus (80 pages) about the company and the construction toy "industry". Mega Bloks Inc is the new official name of the company since last Tuesday. They had 2001 sales of 150M and gross profit of 70M, (...) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Mega Bloks IPO
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(...) Hi, A "red herring" is the US term. Since it was made in Canada it might not be a red herring. It's a colorful name for the first public document describing the company's offering of securities. US law requires a big RED INK disclaimer on the (...) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Mega Bloks IPO
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To find the documents filed today on SEDAR (URL) large color PDFs) To find the news release (En/Fr) (URL) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Mega Bloks IPO
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I have no idea what any of that means. Is a red herring what the Knights of Ni want us to chop down the Mightiest Tree in the forest with? And what does IPO stand for? I honestly got an A in my economics class a year ago, but I don't recall either (...) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Mega Bloks IPO
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(...) I wouldn't say it's a "very, very bad idea"...Just a very, very risky idea. This is worse than playing the lottery. You have a very small chance of winning big, and a very LARGE chance of losing all the money you invested. If you play the IPO (...) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Mega Bloks IPO
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I just read on the Bloomberg news wire that Mega Bloks, Inc. will IPO and list its stock as "MB" on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The underwriters are Merrill Lynch, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, and National Bank of Canada. This is big news (...) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands) !!
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| | Re: Pics of MB Harriers at Port Block
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(...) mixing required!!! BTW, this page has the underline problem, too. D'oh! ROSCO (23 years ago, 21-Mar-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Pics of MB Harriers at Port Block
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Evening all, MB 9709 - not bad for $30. Port Block had to refit a couple, obviously :-) (URL) baldly going... (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: OT: LEGO+Sploids+KNEX Models w/MCLAD
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Dave Schuler <orrex@excite.com> wrote in message news:Gt6BIq.117@lugnet.com... <snip> (...) update (...) do! (...) Yeah, I think I'll try making a couple parts.this is the most I've ever been interested in part creation.I'll wait till after the (...) (23 years ago, 20-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Using stud2.dat in clones.dat files
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(...) Eek! Well I put all the blame on Lars for paying too much attention to detail! If he were more of a slacker, I wouldn't have this problem... (...) studc2.dat it is! Thanks for the catch and the suggestion. If anyone cares to download the (...) (23 years ago, 19-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Using stud2.dat in clones.dat files
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...is not a good idea, for the same reason that we have the studc.dat primitive: With L3P and Qaul=2, the logo of the Leading Brand will be rendered on its inside. We shoud have a stud2c.dat or studc2.dat, identical to stud2.dat to solve the (...) (23 years ago, 19-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: OT: LEGO+Sploids+KNEX Models w/MCLAD
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(...) I have a little Tim Courtney voodoo doll on my desk happily surrounded by MegaBloks and TYCO Superblocks--eventually, the spell will take hold... In the meantime, the clone.dats unzip to the appropriate sub-directories, following the example (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: OT: LEGO+Sploids+KNEX Models w/MCLAD
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(...) Thanks for your interest! Keep your eye on O.T.Clones for another update around the end of the month. And if you want to make some parts, please do! Dave! FUT OT.Clones only (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: OT: LEGO+Sploids+KNEX Models w/MCLAD
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This single directory zip file doesn't seem to be a problem for MLCAD at least. I just made a new sub-directories under /PARTS and called them KNex & Sploids. I didn't want them to show up in the parts listing so this works well for me. I can't (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: OT: LEGO+Sploids+KNEX Models w/MCLAD
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"Tim Courtney" <tim@zacktron.com> wrote in message news:Gt4pAx.Dzq@lugnet.com... (...) How about using LDR instead of LCAD - after all, that's the new file extension and so it still indicates the contents of the update file, and it's the first 3 (...) (23 years ago, 17-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: OT: LEGO+Sploids+KNEX Models w/MCLAD
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(...) That could be an issue, but Steve should tackle that one. I don't know how your MegaBlok parts unzip (and you know me, the anti-clone, good luck getting me to download them) ;-) Are your parts named with a prefix that distinguishes them from (...) (23 years ago, 17-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: OT: LEGO+Sploids+KNEX Models w/MCLAD
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Dave Schuler <orrex@excite.com> wrote in message news:Gt3AIn.6MA@lugnet.com... <snip> (...) Hey thanks for providing this link, I've been wanting to make some Mega Block parts in LDraw,and now I don't have to. Gary <snip> (...) (23 years ago, 17-Mar-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Old LEGO Clone bricks made by Nintendo
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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)
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| | Re: My K'Nex monstrosity made it into the paper!
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(...) Me choose a house just for that? Never! ;-) (...) I tried. I pointed out the size of my collection as well as that the telerobotic web cam that I was using during construction was made of LEGO. But I think since I had no plans to put it back (...) (23 years ago, 13-Mar-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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