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| (...) Again from Gunota: Products announced: RX-78-2 and Char's Zaku II, MSRP is 8500yen + tax. (URL) small pictures can be found here: (URL) come with a hanger bay and a mini-fig. I am surprised by the high price - more than twice of a MG model. (...) (18 years ago, 14-Jul-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| (...) Thanks Rene, you are of course right, I did mean PeBe; unfortunately not the first time I mixed the two. But I thought Polly was East German as well? Was it West German instead?? Arne, Copenhagen (18 years ago, 7-Jul-06, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| (...) Thanks for the link! Dave! (18 years ago, 6-Jul-06, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| (...) Thanks for the clarification--I only have one "Brick" Castle set, and it included clearly pirated as well as clearly original elements. I don't own any "Shifty," but I concur with your assessment. (...) Tyco is of excellent quality, and some (...) (18 years ago, 6-Jul-06, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| (...) Hi Dave, do you know Andreas Haase's gallery of clone brands and similar systems? (URL) Godt! Rene (18 years ago, 6-Jul-06, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| (...) Hi Arne, AFAIK, Polly wasn't from Eastern Germany. It was PeBe, which is available again in the meantime. Play well (with LEGO :-) Rene (18 years ago, 6-Jul-06, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| (...) The infamous Chinese "Bricks" company has made several knock-offs of LEGO sets, and have lost several legal cases, but they also make their own legal military sets, with excellent designs and pretty high quality bricks, matching the MB quality (...) (18 years ago, 6-Jul-06, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| (...) Hi Jerry! That's a great post filled with good observations and questions. I don't know if you're aware, but Best-Lock recently merged with Cobi, a brick-brand centered in Poland, to become Cobi/Best-Lock. Under this new name, Cobi gained (...) (18 years ago, 6-Jul-06, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| The subject should probably add "revisited" as my guess is this has been frequently re-discussed. Still, I find myself repeatedly looking at some of the clones now even popping up in German stores. Recent finds include - of course - MegaBloks and (...) (18 years ago, 5-Jul-06, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| (...) I wonder if they'll make a realistic picture (...) David, now adays, clutch problems are the result of a sculpture pushing the envelope of the elements capacity, not poor manufacturing standards. Lego, MB and the Cobi version of Best Lock are (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jun-06, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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