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(...) Hi Stan! I'm sorry I don't have much info on this brand, but it pops up on Ebay pretty regularly. Here's a current (URL) I'll keep my eyes open, and I'll post here if I spot anything useful. Dave! (21 years ago, 3-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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| | BetterBlocks™ 1375 Combo Kit
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Hi, I saw advertisement of BetterBlocks™ 1375 Combo Kit, which is similar to LEGO, but the units are round on QVCUK.com, some time ago (y.2000). I take interest in this product, but QVC does not sell it at a present time. Will it be possible to (...) (21 years ago, 3-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Q re new MB sailing ship...
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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, George Barnes wrote a most worthy reply Thanks dude. Its off to the shops for me... Richard Still baldly going... (21 years ago, 3-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | New MB Dragons "sampler" set spotted at Target
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Similar to the clear-boxed Dragons set that appeared at K-Mart an elsewhere late last year, but bigger. "Sea Dragon", $20 set, with the top half of the box made of clear plastic, and a very nice looking black dragon on display inside - white and red (...) (21 years ago, 3-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Betterblocks 1375 Combo Kit
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(...) Hi Stan: There's only one newsgroup on LUGNET that deals with compatible brands of brick: lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands. You may have more luck with your question there. I did find one online seller of the blocks you're looking for: (URL) (21 years ago, 2-Sep-03, to lugnet.faq, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) Yes sort of. There is a special insert into the front of the hull that this connects to. If you push a button on the platform behind the dragon the wings raise and the mouth opens and the red light in the head comes on. (...) Yes 4 or 5 (...) (21 years ago, 2-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Q re new MB sailing ship...
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Hi guys, I see that the new MB Dragons sets are on the shelves here, but the pics of the grand ship to not give much of an idea of its elements. If anyone had acquired this one: Is the dragon figurehead removeable? Is the hull made up of sections (...) (21 years ago, 2-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Brok (careful - there's MB about)
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In lugnet.gaming.starship, Richard Parsons wrote a big paragraph of stuff, then a teaser: -snip- (...) ...Must see final... Good work! -Dan (21 years ago, 31-Aug-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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(...) Teaser pics (and not very good ones at that, but they do give a bit of a feel) (URL) she's 194 studs long, and yet to be properly greebled, or arranged in front of suitable background scenery, but she's just beautiful (IMHO :-) Actually, these (...) (21 years ago, 31-Aug-03, to lugnet.gaming.starship, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Shopko Clearance
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We found a Pro-Builder fire truck today for $11. They also had some dragon sets but I didn't check the prices. -- Rosemary Regner, PE R Squared Digital Media rose@r2dm.com www.r2dm.com (21 years ago, 30-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: TMNT MEGA BLOKS
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(...) (URL) (21 years ago, 28-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: IBM chooses Mega-Blocks over Lego
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(...) Yes all hail Satan. :) The cross burning and zealot referneces were a nice touch. :) Seriously. I'm not burning clones. I just think they do not have a large a place on lugnet or Bricklink as Hop-Frog would like. Lego sites dedicated to Lego (...) (21 years ago, 28-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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(...) This was me making a bit of a dig. It was in reference to an earlier post. I won't argue that MB :) are getting better and that I have picked up sets and seriously considered buying. I understand the draw of a set heavy with light grey 2x4 (...) (21 years ago, 28-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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Dave! I think the previous poster may be a.k.a. "MK-Ultra"(?) on bricklink. He's trolling for me here because I mentioned something about clones on the bricklink forum yesterday and I guess that bothered him and Mike P (surprise!). Like some weird (...) (21 years ago, 28-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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(...) But if that Coke party (which I would happily attend, being a decades-long fan of that brand) billed itself as "The Friendliest Beverage Party Around,' then it might be a trifle off-putting if many of those Coke-fans expressed ovewhelming (...) (21 years ago, 28-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) If you were at a Coke party, for Coke drinkers, planned by Coke drinkers you would most certainly be asked to leave. Would that surprise you or would you refuse to leave and instead spout the virtues of Pepsi to people who are clearly Coke (...) (21 years ago, 28-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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| | Re: MB quality
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(...) Interesting test criteria. I wonder how many of the large Lego sets I have built over the years would have passed this test in partially completed states. Come to think of it, there aren't many Lego sets this big, so if you extended them a (...) (21 years ago, 27-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Color Scheme Questions
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Well here is a nice conundrum for everyone. I have 2 color schemes (URL) From a purely artistic stand point the one on the left is superior to the one on the right. The "problem" is the one on the left uses a color only produced by Mega Bloks while (...) (21 years ago, 26-Aug-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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| | Re: IBM chooses Mega-Blocks over Lego
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(...) One thing that strikes me is that few brands make so poorly IBM-compatible PC:s as... IBM! /Tore (21 years ago, 23-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) <snip> I was looking thru my pieces last night and sure, TLC has been exemplary lately, but I recall (strokes chin thoguhtfully) that when Samsonite was the authorized maker and distributor of LEGO, at least for Canada, in the early '70's... I (...) (21 years ago, 22-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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