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For those who have never seen this brand in person, I managed to obtain 3 small sets today and have posted a picture-heavy review of one of them on my forum (URL) here>. Please take a look if you are interested. Here is a picture of one of the sets: (...) (20 years ago, 21-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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| | Re: Shifty set
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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Sonnich Jensen wrote: -snip- (...) -snip- (...) You could achieve all 3 things:- 1. Leave the bag sealed. 2. Build the set in the bag. 3. Throw the built set in sealed bag away. (:^) (...) Have a Technic bulldozer (...) (20 years ago, 20-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: New Dragons Sets
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<snip> (...) Wow! Apparently the UK gets a differant selection of sets and what's actually in them. Just looking at the version shown for 9891 "Vorgan Stronghold" I don't recognize anything about that set from what I have... Ok, if you don't count (...) (20 years ago, 20-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: New Dragons Sets
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(...) why I never mentioned them before. This site: (URL) has info on them. Do a search for "bloks" and you'll get a nice listing of these and other sets. I found these on page 2 of the search results. Still, the two-pack does indeed look like it (...) (20 years ago, 19-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: New Dragons Sets
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<snip> (...) Yes I do... the 4 new ones that you reported on, 9858 (Dragon Mountain), and 9887 (Fire Storm Fortress). All the others I either have on-hand or on-order, (AFAIK). That would be 7 dragons from all 6 of the sets I don't have yet. (...) (20 years ago, 19-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: New Dragons Sets
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(...) just online? Come to think of it, I can check my local KB today at lunch. I'll report back if I find anything... (...) Hee! Out of curiosity, do you know which ones you're missing? I have the Vorgan demon "Rot" on my desk right now, eating a (...) (20 years ago, 19-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Shifty set
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(...) It's not quite accurate for them to describe all of the sets as "blatant copies" of LEGO sets. Granted, many sets were direct copies, and Shifty certainly copied numerous patent-protected parts, but the Shifty castle set that I bought has no (...) (20 years ago, 19-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.general, lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Shifty set
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Funny, I bought and wrote this... Now I read this: (URL) is just across the waters, 80 km from here. 10 tons, 10000 sets :-) That is a lot! S PS: I will keep the set, in case I have to do a setup/show sometime again. It will go under "bad bad bad (...) (20 years ago, 19-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.general, lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: New Dragons Sets
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<snip> More news from the Dragons front. I don't think that this has been brought to anyone else's attention. I just found these 2 sets on KBtoys.com. One a Fire set and one an Ice. Set #205651 ( (URL) )and set #205661 ( (URL) . Both are on sale for (...) (20 years ago, 18-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: MegaBlocks Snoopy and Woodstock set?
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(...) Hi Hop-Frog! In my quest to find out more about this set, which I have never seen in person, I stumbled upon the instructions scanned online: (URL) offers many of their sets' instructions online at (URL) but I'm not aware of any formal policy (...) (20 years ago, 17-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Going cloneless
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(...) "You do not comprehend the power of the dark side!...." Your foolish jedi tricks will not work on me... ;) Dave K (20 years ago, 15-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Going cloneless
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(...) Like I said--All in good time. All in good time. Dave! (20 years ago, 15-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Going cloneless
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(...) You wish... (...) -Tim (20 years ago, 15-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Going cloneless
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(...) Sorry to hear that, John. Best of luck in your sell-off! (...) Oh, great. Now I'll have to bid against Tim for these fine clone items. Dave! (20 years ago, 15-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Apocryphal Classic Space revisited
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Some of you may recall (URL) these> variations on the Classic Space theme. In the spirit of continuing my homage to that fine genre, (URL) here's> another small offering. I envision it as a light strike fighter or probably a scout ship. Enjoy! Dave! (20 years ago, 15-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Going cloneless
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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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| | Going cloneless
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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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| | Re: Mega Bloks does it again...
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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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| | Mega Bloks does it again...
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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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| | Re: Mega Bloks Star Trek Enterprise D Now in
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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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