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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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(...) Aw, shucks. I'll make a list... Of course, now that you've chimed in, that means that every Dave in the universe participated in the thread. Dave! (18 years ago, 26-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) Whatever we can do for you, Dave! :) Dave K (18 years ago, 26-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) By the way, let me just mention how it warms my heart to see a discussion of Mega Bloks both Highlighted and on the LUGNET spotlight for close to 48 hours straight. Dave! (18 years ago, 26-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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(...) Go for it, I say! Mega Bloks often posts their instructions online, even for current sets, so you won't even have to steal any intellectual property to do it. Heck, if LEGO put out any designs that I found interesting enough to borrow, I would (...) (18 years ago, 26-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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(...) Maybe that's the crux of it. I've never been much for building robots or gear-based machines, so perfect tolerances aren't really a factor. I love the slight variations when building walls or hulls, kind of like the way Star Trek vessels are (...) (18 years ago, 26-Jun-06, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) As the owner and builder of about 3000 LEGO sets and 200 MB sets, I have done a lot of comparing the two brands over the years. MB from last millenium is definately of poor quality, just like you describe. MB from the Dragon sets does earn (...) (18 years ago, 26-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) Each to their own I suppose. Outside of the odd mech or spaceship, I generally build robots and machines. Not lining up straight could be a major problem if a mechanism snags something. Of course for more aesthetic models, it actually may add (...) (18 years ago, 26-Jun-06, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) I love the idea of boycotting the Mega blok sets but making the models from Lego. Steve (18 years ago, 24-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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(...) Yes sadly the Dragons and Pyrates Mega Bloks lines are some of the worst quality they have done. Its not because of the juniorizedness of the sets either. For some reason the part quality is no where near as good as Mega Bloks' more brick (...) (18 years ago, 25-Jun-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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(...) Those very first batch of Blok Bots were pretty bad. However the second generation of Blok Bots was right around the time Mega Bloks had a rather large quality jump. They are still not as good as Lego but they are a lot closer than the early (...) (18 years ago, 25-Jun-06, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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