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Did you get a chrome sword???
I really want one...
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=83429
^ more Shifty products.
-R
In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Tim Tosino writes:
> I was out checking the lego situation in Metrotown, when I decided to look
> at the Dollar Store. I noticed some model cars in the front and wanted to
> see them. Upon my entrance to the Toy aisle, I immediately look at a lower
> shelf and see Pirate LEGO! Of course it was a collection of Clone bricks
> with a picture stolen directly from the original Lego box. They had an
> assortment of sets pirate, castle, space, and horrible looking town cars.
> The boxes have the word "Enlighten" in the upper right corner followed by
> either "Brick" or "Shifty" (I could think of another word that begins with S
> to describe these bricks). The store had a whole bunch of other toys with
> stolen trade marks hehe.
>
> I paid around $6.00 for 4 sets, all of them pirate/islanders. I thought they
> might be worth it for the accessories. Thankfully the brown spears and other
> brown items are the same color; however all of the figs have white hands and
> many weird torsos. The "9602" set shows an imperial guard, when I opened the
> box it turns outs instead of a red tunic he has a black tunic with gold
> striping. Yellow seems to be the only major color that's really off. The
> foliage seems transparent also
>
> Of the four sets that I bought there was on sailor's hat that was so
> deformed it doesn't even fit on the head. Thankfully the boxes open with
> flaps and are not even held together with paste, so you can see what you are
> getting. "Shifty" seems to have not copied the mould for the musket so
> instead of the muskets I got brown rifles.
>
> All in all I don't think I would ever use the bricks in these sets, but the
> accessories seem decent.
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