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Re: Best-Lock still sucks
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Date: 
Sun, 23 Jun 2002 04:00:05 GMT
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I cannot recommend you try these bricks for anything but the minis.  The
incompatibility issues are just too great -- and because of this they aren't
really what I consider a clone brick in any but the most ambiguous way.

The brick & plate size thing is a little tricky.  6 Best Lock bricks is exactly
the same height as 5 Lego/Mega Bloks/Tyco bricks.  So if someone really wanted
to they could use them together.


I will likely NEVER buy Best-Lock again -- not unless I see a military
minifigure pack for cheap.

-- Hop-Frog

I agree with that completely.

-Mike Petrucelli



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  Re: Best-Lock still sucks
 
(...) Notice this makes the end of a Best-Lock brick 5/16" square, the same as a one-stud surface grid. If they had holes on the ends, that would make for some interesting possibilities... except I can't get excited about the colors, their gripping (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)

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  Best-Lock still sucks
 
Hey Y'all: Before dinner last night, I swung by a Target store and couldn't resist trying out the new #3174 F-117 Nighthawk Stealth Bomber set from Best-Lock. I thought to myself that it had been two years since I tried one of their sets, and if (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)

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