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(...) Congrats! (eat your heart out, Dave!) -Tim (20 years ago, 15-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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Well, after dabbling with Mega Bloks and Intelli-Blox on and off for the past decade I've decided to abandon efforts to cross-brand my building. I've debated the relative merits of clone use back and forth for some time. I can't say it's any sort of (...) (20 years ago, 15-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) Doesn't this have more to do with MegaBloks being a hometown company than a marketing failure on the part of TLC? I wouldn't expect a big MegaBloks display in a toy store in Billund. Marc Nelson Jr. (20 years ago, 15-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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Well, here is an other example of good marketing execution by Mega Bloks... And a bad one by LEGO, in my view. November 13th, 2004, a new toy store opened in Quebec City : (URL). They have many specialised sections, one of them about construction (...) (20 years ago, 14-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Hi Bill and all: I've been scouring the internet for other news on the Marvel licenses, but I've pretty much come up dry. However, I stumbled upon another curious (URL) Q&A> that I thought I'd mention here: Will Trek C3 playsets be possible (...) (20 years ago, 12-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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(...) The French Revolution version of removing your hat. Ouch! (...) They still have the police torso under their armor. That makes them undercover cops. :) (...) I just compared the 2 brands and you're right - the legs are the same length. But, (...) (20 years ago, 12-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) Ha ha ha, okay, okay. I guess I have painted myself and many of my MOCs as BTR proponents. Thanks for that info Dave! I also thought that the BTR line was finito. TRU and Wally World (Wal-Mart) had cleared out their shelves for the last time, (...) (20 years ago, 11-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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(...) This week I spotted a small set in this series on the shelf at Wal*Mart. Apparently these are Exin blocks, which previously has produced castle sets and currently offers sets representing several Spider-Man scenes, Shrek's Castle, and/or (...) (20 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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This might be of particular interest to (URL) Christy> and (URL) Pamela Hale,> but all are welcome to look: I just checked out the Hasbro website to gather some info on the (I thought) discontinued BTR line, and I discovered that there may be a (...) (20 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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<snip, et. al.> Well, here it is, my B-day, and I got to open up the package this morning. The crate is a bit better than reported or expected. It's real wood - thin and mostly ply, but real wood. The boxes inside are just 2. One for each set. I (...) (20 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) Sure he can, as long as you take his head off with it! I've had some success mixing and matching the sculpted parts, at least enough to satisfy me, but I see your point. For someone who particularly values that kind of interchangeability, then (...) (20 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) I'm aware of why the Minimates were pictured in this gallery - I wasn't suggesting they were replacing the MB figs, just pointing out how they made the MB figs look inferior (IMO). Actually, I think that the MB buildings look better when (...) (20 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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I don't know anything at all about the "One Piece" animated series, other than the fact that two of the characters are apparently named Luffy and Shanks. However, while perusing the Japanese MegaBloks site, I came upon (URL) this set.> Leaving aside (...) (20 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.boats, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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(...) 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)
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(...) 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)
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(...) 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)
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(...) 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)
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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)
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| | Re: A Plea for Info
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(...) Excellent! Thanks very much for your help, Russell. I'll add it to my listing. Dave! (20 years ago, 8-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) It's not as though they replaced MegaBloks minifigs with MiniMates--all of the MB minifigs are shown in the review, and the (to me) hideous minimates only show up to demonstrate that the set can be used in a diorama, as the review indicates. (...) (20 years ago, 8-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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