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at my Claremont, NH W*M, I picked up a $20 A10 Warthog Probuilder model. It has a new molded & printed/painted nose 'cone', a new cockpit, new engine intake/output cowlings, new molded missles & landing gear. it's light & dark gray. on the side of (...) (20 years ago, 23-Mar-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: new MB sets
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(...) First, thanks for posting this information! Second, how many pieces are in the set? Third, is a new catalog included, or is it the same one from late 2003 (i.e., does not include the Warthog itself?) Fourth, you're a fink for finding this set (...) (20 years ago, 24-Mar-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) SNIP (...) You're welcome! (...) 545, plus extras-i usually get extra pieces in MB sets (...) same old 2003 catalog (...) i'm a double fink-i built it too! :D I also found more 'new' pieces: a 1x2 45 degree slope with no studs- so you can make (...) (20 years ago, 25-Mar-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Army Chopper (was Re: new MB sets)
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(...) I picked up the helicopter today. Offically called "9786 Army Chopper". According to the package it has 265 pieces with a price of US$10. Main body is 8 studs wide. The pictures show the military green color that Mega Bloks uses but the parts (...) (20 years ago, 25-Mar-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) That's a neat design. Tyco had the corresponding inverted slope--I'll have to compare them once I've gotten my hands on the MEGABLOKS version. You know, this would be a great time for you to jump into the wild world of LDraw-compatible clone (...) (20 years ago, 26-Mar-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) Finally I was able to find a single copy of this set at a local KMart, but no other new sets were in evidence. Weird. Here are renderings of some of the pieces you described, though I foolishly omitted the new 45-degree slope element: (URL) (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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Referencing the new $20 Warthog plane set for anyone who didn't follow that. (...) Oddly enough I just got this set myself two days ago and was going to point this out too. Rather frustrating. (...) I was going to point this out too. As far as the (...) (20 years ago, 24-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | A minor note about the Warthog
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My local KMart has two versions of the (URL) Force Warthog> on the shelf. The sets themselves appear to be identical, but the boxes are slightly different, and one is listed as set #9789 and the other is #3707. The price and piece-counts are the (...) (19 years ago, 25-Jul-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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(...) I don't know if it's similar, but the MB Dragon set Raiders Sea Assualt exists as both set number 9807 and set number 9652. I'm not sure, but I think maybe the 96xx-series was sets intended for the UK market? Arne, Copenhagen (19 years ago, 27-Jul-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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(...) That's an interesting hypothesis that hadn't occurred to me! A search on the (URL) MEGABLOKS website> returns no hits for "9652," but unfortunately that's not quite conclusive since "3707" doesn't show up, either. In any case, I'll do some (...) (19 years ago, 27-Jul-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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