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OK, here's the story... A misguided relative bought me a Best-Lock set about 18 months ago (honest!!) and it's been gathering dust in my garage ever since. The set is 2103 - Eurasian Dynasty Base and is totally complete and boxed - oh, except I (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jul-02, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Shifty, Coko found in Canada
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I have a lot of Coko sets and that does not look like Coko... Looks like a Coko clone! Also, Coko is a clone of both Lego and Tyco. Paul (...) copyright (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Shifty, Coko found in Canada
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I found Shifty and Coko sets at a dollar store here in Canada: (URL) wonder if TLC would be interested in knowing this, since the sets are such blatant rip-offs. I have read that there isn't much TLC can do about copyright violations occurring in (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Megablocks Dragons: Sorcerer's Lair
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(...) review, but I'd like to add a few small points that may be of interest. This will be sketchy for now, since I only bought two sets at lunch and I'm back at work now. The accessories are really cool! One thing I always hated about 25mm (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jul-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Shifty sets: brown beards!
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(...) lower (...) to (...) No, mine are like that too, so I think it's a generic fault. (...) Lego is not always perfect, but Shifty is definitely a lot "iffy"-er based on my actual experiences with it (all reported in this newsgroup). (...) This is (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Shifty sets: brown beards!
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(...) Well, to my mind the HP sets had a similar problem with the bearded guy whose face was misprinted such that even though the minihead will sit lower (or correctly), you have to raise it up so that the glasses do not appear to be located beneath (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Shifty sets: brown beards!
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(...) Argh!!! When I posted the above, I had only looked in the polybag. Now that I have built the set I have discovered that the brown beards are not moulded properly and prevents the head from sitting as low as it should on the neck. So, while the (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Shifty sets: brown beards!
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One of the Shifty sets is a copy of Lego's 1932 Wizard's Cart (URL) so you would think if you saw the box featuring a blue wizard with white beard pulling a cart. However, a Shifty set is always a bit of a lucky dip on colours, so it should have (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | more Shifty Brick set reviews
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(...) compatible and (...) is not (...) I just bought another Shifty set. This one is a Pirate/Imperial set, an obvious copy of Lego's 6279 Skull Island. (URL) cost $35 (US$20) and was the largest Shifty set available. The Lego equivalent cost US$53 (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: WTB: Lego and Clone Stuff (page updated -- new items and prices on page)
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(...) The total price I am willing to pay per element. The presumption about clone elements, in particular, is that to most Lego collectors they are little better than garbage -- hence my inducement, or bounty, that they sell them to me instead of (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jun-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: WTB: Lego and Clone Stuff (page updated -- new items and prices on page)
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(...) Your images/descriptions are laudably clear. About the prices/bounties however-- are the bounties in addition to an agreed upon price between buyer and seller, or is that the total price you are willing to pay? As for unpriced items, I assume (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jun-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | WTB: Lego and Clone Stuff (page updated -- new items and prices on page)
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Hey Y'all: I haven't always had good results posting a WTB Clone Elements list -- so right up front I want you to know that my webpage is not some difficult to understand list of descriptions -- it is loaded with images of almost every element I am (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jun-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Best-Lock still sucks
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(...) 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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| | Re: Best-Lock still sucks
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[snip] (...) 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 agree with that completely. -Mike (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Best-Lock still sucks
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(...) I swung by a Target store and couldn't resist (...) SUCKA;-) -John (22 years ago, 22-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Best-Lock still sucks
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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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| | WTB: Clone Stuff & Clone Reference Image Announcement
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Hey Y'all: A small reference image concerning the Mega Bloks (MB) and Tyco 2x2 "reverser" plates can be found at: (URL) yeah, see it and weep! And please take note that my "Feed My Black Tar Brick Habit!" page is a great reference page too -- esp. (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Shifty Brick set reviews
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(...) I've been mixing and matching and found the figs to be very compatible with LEGO. I bought to small pirate sets and found the figs to be as follows. HATS: Very rough. The tricorns are much flatter than the LEGO equivalent and to not have the (...) (22 years ago, 21-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Shifty Brick set reviews
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(...) Thanks for the reviews Kerry, being a clone-dabbler myself, I will have to try and track down some in Sydney. (22 years ago, 20-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Shifty Brick set reviews
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(...) shifty3.jpg Thanks, Ross. If you look at shifty3.jpg, you will see the two larger sets I bought. The Gladness Homestead (3-level Paradisa house with satellite dish) is on the right on the 2nd top shelf. The unnamed castle with drawbridge and (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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