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Re: Wanted: Instructions for Coko pirate ship
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lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands
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Tue, 7 Mar 2000 22:26:31 GMT
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Richard Schamus wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Frank Filz writes:
> > I just received the lot of Coko pirate ship parts I won off eBay. The
> > cool thing - I was worried whether all the hull parts were there because
> > I couldn't see them, no need to worry, there are TWO complete hulls,
> > with 4 center sections each (well 8 since the Coko hull sections are
> > split in two)!
> >
> > If anyone can point me to some instructions I'd be most grateful. When I
> > manage to turn these into something, I'll post a review here.
> >
> > At a quick glance, these look to be higher quality than Mega Bloks and
> > Best Lock. They also "borrowed" much more from LEGO than Best Lock, most
> > of the parts are very similar to LEGO parts than Best Lock's do. The
> > split hull is neat. I might actually try making a 20 wide ship.
> >
> > --
> > Frank Filz
> >
> > -----------------------------
> > Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please)
> > Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com
> Hi Frank,
> I currently own 3 Coko ships: two of them pirate of the same type, and one is
> a current military aircraft carrier. The pirates, are the Raiders, and the
> hull sections are brown. The aircraft carrier has a deep green color to them.
> I've made a few ships out of the brown ones, the green are recent,(within
> about a year now,) aquisitions. You can see a reasonable picture of my Pirate
> ship creation at: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Castle/1334/shipa.html
> I can't remember how wide I got it.
> As far as instructions go, well, your on your own, unless someone like me
> offers to send you some scans of the sets they have.
>
> And BTW, welcome to the darkside.
By "current aircraft carrier," do you mean currently available? I'd thought that
Coko was out of production. Incidentally, I found a small blisterpack animal
"starter set" in a Ben Franklin yesterday -- $3.45. Didn't buy it, but it looked
interesting (well articulated figs, and what's more, neat inverted med-slopes with
stepping).
best
Lindsay
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