 | | Kadawa...Dia Blok..is back and Disney sells it!
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Kadawa, the king of Japanese bricks, is once again the official Disneyland and Disneyworld brick, after an absence of 30 years. Once again if you want the sleeping beauty's castle, the Jungle Cruise (I've got this one, its fantastic!) Splash (...) (15 years ago, 12-Oct-09, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Tente
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Does anyone have any useful links for Tente? The two links from here are broken and I'd like to research a couple of mini sets for ebaying. I've also got some random pieces trawled from various lego lots and I'd like to find out a bit about them. In (...) (15 years ago, 23-Sep-09, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Toppo brand clones
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(...) Found out what these are after 20 months of research. The name is not toppo, its torro. Torro bricks were the Lego of New Zealand for close to 20 years. Their components were made of various types of plastic, from soft plastic 2x4 bricks to (...) (15 years ago, 10-Sep-09, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | New elements, get them while they're hot!
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New best lock sets are coming out with new (to the Lego palette) elements. The newest 240 and 500 piece police building sets include a few 1x5 bricks, 1x5 plates, as well as scads of 1x4x3 bricks. Best Lock's change of base from Chendu (where little (...) (15 years ago, 27-Aug-09, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | brick design breakthrough
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K'nex has now introduced in one of their aircraft line, two way friction pins for their bricks. Knex bricks are beveled at the top and bottom of the tubes allowing pins to clutch, unlike lego technic, which relies on the shape of the pin alone for (...) (15 years ago, 27-Aug-09, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: the 11 x 19 plate has arrived!!
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(...) Don't have the ability to post pictures on my webtv box (I don't even own a computer) The new 500 piece Best Lock Town series Police Station has 3 of the above plates in white as well as a host of elements not seen before from TLG (15 years ago, 26-Aug-09, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: the 11 x 19 plate has arrived!!
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(...) Cool. Do you have a picture? (15 years ago, 23-Aug-09, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: The one by twenty-four brick has arrived!
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(...) In tackling the problem of larger builds, K'nex is adopting a different tact than the late Built to Rule sets. Built to rule used large heavy pieces that had to clutch by a single short row of studs, often taxing the clutch of the build. K'nex (...) (15 years ago, 15-Jul-09, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | The one by twenty-four brick has arrived!
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Knex has released a new series of 4 large vehicle building sets. How large?, well they use 1x24 and 1x16 bricks! Knex continues reinventing itself and the brick. Prior to this series the 1x2 was their largest one wide brick. This series introduces (...) (15 years ago, 11-Jul-09, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Sluban takes the battle to Lego
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Two years after the Netherlands high court decision making it possible to import building bricks identical in scale to Lego into Holland, the Sluban company of Guanjaou has now established a commercial presence on the European continent. Sold (...) (15 years ago, 19-Jun-09, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | the 11 x 19 plate has arrived!!
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The title says it all. the 11x19 plate has arrived, in Best Lock set 24006 (240 piece firefighters set, release date 2008). A number of pieces in this set are new to Lego scale and appear to be from a new source, possibly, Coco Toy Co. of Shanghai, (...) (15 years ago, 9-Jun-09, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: New Mega blok Gundam
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(...) review info on these models (and a tip on where to get these at a less-than-insane price) can be found here: (URL) ..jg (15 years ago, 27-May-09, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Factory / PaB Pricing Study
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(...) :sorry: Now to .lego only. Richie Dulin CO Legeaux (15 years ago, 13-Apr-09, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: LEGO Factory / PaB Pricing Study
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(...) I think that the "Please consider FUT if replying" was missed further back in this thread, as the current discussion doesn't seem o-t.clone-brands related. But I could be wrong. Richie Dulin CO Legeaux FUT now to .lego only, but that might not (...) (15 years ago, 13-Apr-09, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: LEGO Factory / PaB Pricing Study
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(...) I think that the "Please consider FUT if replying" was missed further back in this thread, as the current discussion doesn't seem o-t.clone-brands related. But I could be wrong. Richie Dulin CO Legeaux FUT now to .lego only, but that might not (...) (15 years ago, 13-Apr-09, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: LEGO Factory / PaB Pricing Study
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(...) Not sure if I'm reading your meaning exactly here, but: 1. Many parts are not available on Bricklink in the quantities required - you end up having to buy from multiple stores, which ends up being just as pricey, especially for people not in (...) (15 years ago, 11-Apr-09, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: LEGO Factory / PaB Pricing Study
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Now if Ldraw and Bricklink developers would get together this whole issue would be moot. (15 years ago, 9-Apr-09, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: LEGO Factory / PaB Pricing Study
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(...) -snip- (...) 55 cents a piece? That's what market dominance lets them do: Big Ben's Bricks, BrickArms and Brickforge could never get away with charging that much per piece. Or could they? Richie Dulin CO Legeaux Please consider FUT if replying (15 years ago, 8-Apr-09, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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| | Re: New Mega blok Gundam
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(...) This excellent news could only be made better by an announcement that these kits would be widely available outside of Asia! Though I understand that licensing issues are at work, it's maddening that such cool sets should be isolated to one (...) (16 years ago, 15-Feb-09, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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| | New Mega blok Gundam
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RX-78 Gundam - 3000 yen (URL) Zeta Gundam - 5500 yen (URL) Expansion pack A - 1800 yen (URL) (16 years ago, 10-Feb-09, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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