To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brandsOpen lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Off-Topic / Clone Brands / 1298
1297  |  1299
Subject: 
Re: Solid Aluminum 2x4 Bricks!
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands
Date: 
Tue, 11 Jun 2002 18:40:33 GMT
Viewed: 
131 times
  
In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Dave Schuler writes:
In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Erik Olson writes:

There was a great deal of original design in the Intelliblocks line
(alongside starkly basic brick and plate) but then there was that goofy
lance. They took the Lego lance (introduced in 1979) and put a hook on the
end. If this wasn't a ripoff, I don't know what is, because the piece was
non-functional as well. Its only reason for being seems that the pirate
lance mold was on hand already, and the budget controller said "do it, and
stick a hook on it."

Yeah, that threw me for a loop, too.  The lance even has a roughness
suggesting (to me) shoddy mold casting of an actual LEGO lance.  On the
other hand, they're not *actually* lances but are actually some sort of boat
hook, IIRC (in the film anyway).  Obviously, though, the part is still the
part, and it's a fairly obvious ripoff of the lance.
The torch parts from the Prancing Pony sets are apparently based on the
basic LEGO antenna, too.

And along the same lines, am I the only one who thought the actual design of
the Prancing Pony Inn was highly reminiscent of that of Guarded Inn (note,
among other things, how the covered area is on the left and the walled open
area extends to the right)?

Maggie C.



Message is in Reply To:
  Re: Solid Aluminum 2x4 Bricks!
 
(...) I think I must have slipped a gear during all this--I was still focusing on the 2x4 brick and hadn't considered how it extends to other elements. What if Bram makes a whole bunch of aluminum pitchforks? 8^) (...) Yeah, that threw me for a (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

26 Messages in This Thread:









Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

Custom Search

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR