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Re: Cobi/Best-Lock
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lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands
Date: 
Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:24:42 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Dave Schuler wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Mike Rayhawk wrote:
   I’ll take a second to point out the ‘brikwars’ in my e-mail address up there, and mention the fact that Lego doesn’t make army sets! I like the Best-Lock figures just fine, especially the fact that they put studs on the torso backs.

?? They do? I admit that I have only about two dozen Best-Lock figures from before the Cobi merger, but none of them have studs anywhere on them. In fact, they don’t have leg-holes, the heads are cup-shaped, and the legs attach by little clip-mounts at the hips. Is there a design with which I am (very possibly) not familiar?

These sound like MB Command Ops (Military) and Dragons (Fantasy) figs to me. I haven’t seen studs on Bestlock figs’ backs either.

And I would heartily agree that Command Ops was just made for BrikWars.

And and I can’t say ‘BrikWars’ in a thread with Mike, without also saying ‘Thanks Mike’.

Thanks Mike.

Richard
Sill baldly going...



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  Re: Cobi/Best-Lock
 
(...) I want so badly for this not to be true, because it would mean I've been thinking of the wrong minifig this whole time, but I just dug around in my clone bins and I think you're right. I've got Best-Lock and military sets so connected in my (...) (18 years ago, 18-Jan-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)

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  Re: Cobi/Best-Lock
 
(...) Not sure when you mean--can you be more specific? I have Mega Bloks catalogs dating back to 1993, and they've never struck me as deceptively similar, except insofar as they feature pictures of the various sets arranged in a large display (...) (18 years ago, 16-Jan-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)

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