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(...) Licensing for Spider-Man has long been extremely complex, which is why it took so long to make the first movie. The LEGO license for the movie sets was with Sony who produced and held the license for motion picture merchandise. The Mega sets (...) (17 years ago, 1-Apr-07, to lugnet.licensed.spiderman, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | 2nd wave of Knex bricks in stores!
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Knex continues their major effort to become a big player in the public domain lego system brick market. They have released their first large general construction brick tub, consisting of 820 elements, 695 of which are Knex bricks, including 3 types (...) (18 years ago, 24-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: anyone know of this clone brand? battleships
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(...) I assume you are talkiing about (URL) brand ships. I loved those too as a kid. :-) Try putting in 'Tente' into your ebay search and you should get more results. HTH (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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| | anyone know of this clone brand? battleships
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Hey all, I just got this e-mail but don't recognize the clone brand the guy is describing. Does anyone out there in o-t.clone-brands recognize this? -- I was wondering if you could help me. I've searched all over the Internet (including ebay, (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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| | Re: Lego Spider-man 3?
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(...) **snip** (...) That has puzzled me as well, and it makes cataloguing a bit of a headache, when there are a dozen sets called "Spider-Man." (...) I'm guessing that the #2004 Sandman's Bank Heist and #2002 Green Goblin's Secret Lab probably (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.licensed.spiderman, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Lego Spider-man 3?
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(...) Sorry, MegaBloks now holds the license for Spider-man 3. AFAIK LEGO hasn't said anything about letting the license lapse and MegaBloks hasn't issued any press releases about obtaining the license. However, in the last 2 weeks I have seen 5 (...) (18 years ago, 17-Mar-07, to lugnet.licensed.spiderman, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | WWT/WTB Clone Brands?
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Hello All! If you're in the market for clone brands, whether as a buyer or seller, I invite you to stop by (URL) The Bloks Forum> and visit our own Marketplace group. We're a comparatively small venue so far, but AFAIK there isn't another online (...) (18 years ago, 12-Mar-07, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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| | Re: Mega Bloks Gundams for sale on Hobby Japan's site
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(...) Really, I should have thought of this sooner. The Gundam line is already posted on (URL) Mega Bloks's Japanese site>. Dave! (18 years ago, 3-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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| | Re: Mega Bloks Gundams for sale on Hobby Japan's site
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(...) Very cool news, Jeff. Thanks! Dave! (18 years ago, 1-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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| | Re: Mega Bloks Gundams for sale on Hobby Japan's site
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HLJ is listing the MS-06F Zaku II (Green mass production version rather than Char's red version) for a June release: (URL) is 8500yen, or about $70. Jeff (...) (18 years ago, 1-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: Cobi "Castles and Dragons" Question:
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(...) Hi Jared! I'm not aware of any announced plans by Cobi/Best-Lock to expand its range of offerings here in the US, though those castle sets would definitely be a welcome addition. To the best of my knowledge we've so far only seen the Town, (...) (18 years ago, 27-Feb-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Cobi "Castles and Dragons" Question:
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Hello! This is my first post to this newsgroup, but I have to say I was pleasantly surprised to learn that it even exists! Non-purists with a forum on LUGNET????? What is this world coming to! I seriously doubt that anyone will have the answer to (...) (18 years ago, 27-Feb-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: K'Nex enters the fray
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(...) Whoops. left out 2 other elements in the K'nex brix series. axels that look like real automotive axels...long black rods with standard knex hubs to receive knex wheels, but a row of studs in the center of the axel, and also another brick, a (...) (18 years ago, 3-Feb-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: K'Nex enters the fray
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(...) Thanks for the info. It all sounds like a nice direction for K'nex. I suppose what I am really hoping for is a K'nex roller coaster, like their old Screamin' Serpent set, that can seat mini-figs. Now that would be awesome. -Mike Petrucelli (18 years ago, 2-Feb-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: K'Nex enters the fray
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(...) So far the bricks consist of 1x2, 2x2, 2x4, and a special 2x8 by 2x10 T brick. Plates are 2x4 and 4x10 with a large bow plate for vehicles. There are 3 sizes of contoured slopes in right and left pairs, and a 2x4 rounded slope. The heart of (...) (18 years ago, 1-Feb-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: K'Nex enters the fray
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Pretty neat. Too bad we can't see more of the brick. BTW, Sploids let one connect Lego Bricks to Knex too : ) (...) (18 years ago, 30-Jan-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Cobi/Best-Lock
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A further note on the difference between Just-Kidz minifigs and Cobi/Best Lock minis (both made by C/block) the company apparently bought molds from multiple sources when making their switch from old scale to Lego metrics after their court victory (...) (18 years ago, 22-Jan-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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| | Re: Cobi/Best-Lock
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(...) Like any overdesigned element, it's just a matter of finding good uses for them I find that Mega Bloks minifig parts fit in just fine if you mix them up well enough with Lego minifig elements. I love using this torso for instance: (URL) I (...) (18 years ago, 20-Jan-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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| | Re: Cobi/Best-Lock
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(...) For myself, I really dislike the scuplted figures for a few reasons: 1. They just seem over accentuated - they remind me of Games Workshop paint jobs (though I'll grant they use more subdued colors that GW uses). 2. They keep changing the (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Cobi/Best-Lock
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(...) 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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