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(...) That implies that before this ruling it was illegal to own MegaBloks in the Netherlands? Just think of the underground criminal class that is now breathing a sigh of relief and able to play with their MegaBloks in the open... -- Thomas Main (...) (17 years ago, 19-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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Mega Bloks won a reversal of the Dutch supreme courts ruling supporting the monopoly of the Lego group for legos system scale sets in 2005. Starting tommorow it will be legal to own, import, and possess for distribution Mega Bloks sets in the (...) (17 years ago, 19-Jun-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) They are no longer free, but they do work well. Knex bricks and plates are all slightly rounded at the top (child safety) and the new seperator acts like a tweezers, easily fitting into the connection between elements and separating. (17 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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K'nex is now releasing their new version of the brick seperator. As part of their all out effort to optain market share in the brick construction hobby, they are offering 5 packs of their separators FREE for the cost of shipping. The new separators (...) (17 years ago, 15-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) 6 of the new sets are out now. New style Symbiote, Spiderman, Sandman, Young Green Goblin, and Ravage are out. A number of the kits are what Mega calls super-tech Mecha. They combine super-tech elements (done in weird bionical style character (...) (17 years ago, 5-Apr-07, to lugnet.licensed.spiderman, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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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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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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(...) **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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(...) 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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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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(...) 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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