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  Price of petrol vs price of plastic products
 
Hi, I just read this in local newspaper (Le journal de Montréal) edition of Nov 8th 2004: ==liberal translation from french== "Montréal based compagny MegaBlock indicated in October that they will need to increase cost of their toys to compensate (...) (20 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.lego)
 
  Re: Price of petrol vs price of plastic products
 
(...) You're worried about just Lego? Everything made out of plastic, from clothes to carpets to housing materials to cars to appliances to electronics to computers to decorative junk around the house will increase in cost. Plastic, its everywhere. (...) (20 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.lego)
 
  Re: Price of petrol vs price of plastic products
 
(...) Ya, but I can get by without all that other stuff, while LEGO? LEGO I gotta have. :-) (...) Follow up on that line of discussion probably ought to go to off-topic.debate (20 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.lego)
 
  Re: Price of petrol vs price of plastic products
 
(...) For that matter, I don't know why this should affect MegaBloks at all. From what I've gathered, MegaBloks are crafted from the bones of puppies and innocent children. Have I been misled? Dave! (20 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
 
  Re: Price of petrol vs price of plastic products
 
(...) Yep, you don't know what the h-e-double-hockey-stick you're talking aboot--since it's a Canadian company, MB makes their bricks out of the furs of little baby seals and hockey sticks--that's why the Canadian gov't reimplemented the seal hunt (...) (20 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
 
  Re: Price of petrol vs price of plastic products
 
(...) I'm keeping this in lugnet.lego because it might actually be relevant there. Feel free to FUT as appropriate. Overnight, KMart has increased its prices for MegaBloks sets by about 15%. I happen to have been in this same store yesterday, so I (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jan-05, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.lego)

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