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I've begun working my way through my library of Mega Bloks instruction booklets and posting the scans online. If you're interested in the result, check it out over at The Bloks Forum: (URL) me know if you have any requests for older instruction (...) (14 years ago, 4-Jun-10, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | First steps toward a graphical catalog of Mega Bloks parts now online
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Please check it out (URL), if you're interested. So far it's very basic. The only parts listed at all are those that have been modeled for use with LEdit (et al); This represents somewhere around 450 elements. And only about 100 or so include sample (...) (15 years ago, 13-Dec-09, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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| | Set Review: MEGA BLOKS ProBuilder Master Series 9778 Steam Express
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The review below is reprinted from the (URL) BLOKS Forum> (URL) This won't be a formal review, but just some impressions about this set from the perspective of a die-hard LEGO fan. I have never owned or built a MEGA BLOKS set before, so this was a (...) (15 years ago, 12-Dec-09, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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| | Re: Private label clone sets at Winn Dixie
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(...) Ray, cross post this to Bloks.Hyperboards.forum. We've got cloner collectors over there that would scour Winn Dixies in their neighborhood for these sets, even buying additional sets to mail to other board members. There are a number of (...) (15 years ago, 12-Nov-09, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Private label clone sets at Winn Dixie
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A local Winn Dixie had two clone sets mixed in with the Christmas toy selection this past week. No name on the front, but flipping one of them over suggested that WD was having them manufactured in China as a private label. One of them appeared to (...) (15 years ago, 10-Nov-09, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | 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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