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Re: Tente?
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Date: 
Fri, 5 Nov 1999 21:19:37 GMT
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Christopher Lannan wrote:
In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Jeremy Sproat writes:
Ooooh, man.  If they're still making and selling models of naval ships, I am
*so* there.
I saw a Mega-Blocks battleship the other day at TRU- cheap I think only about
$20. Looked pretty cool, just not LEGO, and I can't imagine starting a
collection of even more construction toys, and I would never mix brands, even
if they're compatible, but it was cool looking. Notably- it looks like the
hull is made out of bricks instead of one big piece.

You don't understand.  Tente ships were *cool*.  They looked good.  And there
were a lot of them.

I've seen the Megablocks crapola they try to pass off as a ship.  It's nowhere
even close to what Tente put out.  It's too big, blocky, and severely lacking
in features.  That, and Megablock pieces stick together about as well as
teflon.

Cheers,
- jsproat

--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com> ~~~ http://www.io.com/~jsproat/



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(...) Hmm... Is that the new battleship you're talking about? If so, then you must have gotten a poor version of it, because I own four of them, and I've had _no_ trouble with weak "stick-age." I've found, in fact, that the entire ship can be lifted (...) (25 years ago, 6-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)

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(...) (or (...) I saw a Mega-Blocks battleship the other day at TRU- cheap I think only about $20. Looked pretty cool, just not LEGO, and I can't imagine starting a collection of even more construction toys, and I would never mix brands, even if (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)

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