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Re: MegaBloks site updated
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lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands
Date: 
Fri, 7 Mar 2003 14:50:13 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Mike Petrucelli writes:
In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Dave Schuler writes:
http://www.megabloks.com

I am very curious to see if we will be able to
make Space armies of cyborgs like the Dragons line allows for Castle. Now that
would be cool. So far it just looks like a Blok Bot tie-in gimmic though. Doh'

  I've been mulling this over with another clone fan, and we've decided that
we can't decide if they're cool or not, until we actually see the sets.  I'd
hope the recent glowing success of the Galidor line would demonstrate that
the construction-toy-action-figure market is tenuous at best, but at least
these Cyborg/Mutroid thingies appear to involve actual bricks, rather than
single-use modular limbs.

  Kevin Johnston was kind enough to post a link to the UK ToyFair preview of
these sets: http://news.lugnet.com/off-topic/clone-brands/?n=1631

The thing that's killing me is that all of these nifty curved, textured,
and/or organic-looking parts are brutally difficult to model in LDraw!  Doh!

     Dave!



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  Re: MegaBloks site updated
 
(...) that (...) Doh' (...) See, the Blok-Bots drive my crazy. They almost always include a really cool looking mini-fig but then there is no way to get more without getting a lot of unwanted Blok-Bots. I wish they would make more sets like the (...) (22 years ago, 8-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)

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  Re: MegaBloks site updated
 
(...) looking. (...) Cool! Thanks for the heads up. I am very curious to see if we will be able to make Space armies of cyborgs like the Dragons line allows for Castle. Now that would be cool. So far it just looks like a Blok Bot tie-in gimmic (...) (22 years ago, 7-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)

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