 | | WTB: Mega Bloks, Tyco, and Lego Elements
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Your disgust with these cheaply made and inferior clone bricks is to our mutual advantage: you don't want 'em and I will pay you $$$ USD to take them off your hands! Now, I haven't always had good results posting a WTB Clone Elements list -- so (...) (22 years ago, 26-May-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: My recent eBay purchase
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(...) stumbled on the Indian set... However, nothing else in the parts lot points to it. Frank might be right, it might be the fireplace set... (...) If this is true, then it begs the question of which clone brand made it? Funny thing is, all the (...) (22 years ago, 24-May-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) Hmm. Well, now I don't know. At first, it looked like the ones in the pic were too short, compared to the real things I have setting on my desk. But when I look at the partsref image, it seems like a match. Weird. Maybe this'll be the one I (...) (22 years ago, 22-May-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) (URL) am I missing something? James (22 years ago, 22-May-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) I'll be buying at least one of them, and I'll post a review thereafter. In the meantime, I'm not so sure that all of these parts are direct copies of canonical pieces. For instance, what about the two grey cones in (URL) Dave! (22 years ago, 22-May-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) Hard to say, but you might be. :) Try checking dollar stores in your area; I've seen the little sets (HTO sized) in them here and there, under the brand name "Shifty Bricks" or just "Shifty". I bought one as you said: a novelty, and ended up (...) (22 years ago, 22-May-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) Indeed. :) (...) O.k. so I accept the fact that the quality is abysmal… And that the bricks are probably completely malformed and possess absolutely no tensile strength to grip together… But! For only $5USD there should be a few elements of (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) If it was real quality that these imitators sported, than even forgeries have their own inate validness. Coupled with a mischeivious cloud of industry these devices have their due place in my legoverse: jail. MegaFigs, Kubriks, Blockos.. any (...) (22 years ago, 22-May-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) Well, as I understand it, it really is not in their best interest to do so. Some of the companies almost legitimate, in such that they act like real companies, but their business is selling copyrighted material (CDs*, DVDs*, plastic building (...) (22 years ago, 22-May-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) Arrgh! Nothing more annoying than cheap knowkoffs, especially of Castle Sets. Can anyone tell me exactly why china (or other asian countries for that matter) don't enforce copyright laws? It's like this, what If you took the harry potter of (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: "Brick" brand knock-offs
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(...) This kennyho1971 seller may have a future in writing spam: "authorized to produce in China by LEGO and sold in China only" Yeah, right. It's an interesting counterpoint to this month's Modern Plastics editorial: "China Offers More Than (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) That is correct. Taiwan, Hong Kong, mainland China, and many other east Asian countries do not observe/enforce international copyright laws. That is why bootlegs are so common everywhere over there except Japan. Jeff (22 years ago, 21-May-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | clones list
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i'm cutting back on a lot of the pages i used to maintain so clones get the axe. hopefully this list will provide some resource for anyone that wants to start a similar page in the future (though some links may be outdated at this point). my tyco (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) Indeed. The quality is abysmal; Shifty bricks are made by cheap press molding (the same technique that gives you the cave in 6099 Traitor Transport). Yick. I don't think Lego can go after them very effectively because of the lack of strict (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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Believe me.. be thankful you don't have the ability or are forced to buy these sets.. I've seen Shifty's quality, and it sucks rocks. (big ones).. I can't believe how blatantly they've stolen Lego's pictures and slightly modified them. One would (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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Pretty strange, but if the quality is anything, theyd be fun to have. (especially that set with all those bat sheilds) To bad i cant get over to china any time soon...... WB (22 years ago, 21-May-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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In lugnet.castle, Richard Noeckel writes: <snipped hideous links> OH MY POOR EYES!!!...!!! Jeff (22 years ago, 21-May-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | (_Some sets of interest for Castle folks_)
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(_Some sets of interest for Castle folks_) (If questions should arise, seek clarity within the following explanatory links) (URL) here they are… !New Castle Sets!… (URL) has a Scala-esk background, but the pieces are all castle…no pink stuff! It (...) (22 years ago, 21-May-02, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: "Brick" brand knock-offs
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(...) Yes, but it's adequately titled: "0029 Horrendous Castle Set." I'd agree, it's pretty atrocious of a set. I love Engrish sometimes! LFB (22 years ago, 21-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: "Lego" from China Sets?????
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(...) (URL) brand is "Shifty" rather than "BRICK"... Shifty we already know well, it's total cack. I was taken with how 1/2 of these are very "accurate copies" while the other half are a wild mishmash of elements of many colors that don't hang (...) (22 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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