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I read about this in an issue of ToyFare a month or so ago. There was a picture of the Timber Wolf/Mad Cat model, and it did look good. Travis Dickinson (...) (23 years ago, 1-Aug-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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Hey Mechyfriends, So...I was in Toys "backwards-facing-R" Us the other day, and what do I see? K*Nex has secured the Mechwarrior license (Microsoft owns that line now, right?), and has produced (what I HATE to admit) a really good looking line. (I (...) (23 years ago, 1-Aug-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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Someone once asked me to find the info which I had on Lego clones...from Readers Digest, dated Aug 1989 (Canadian English Ed) "Though the original Lego brick was based on a British prototype, the company bristles at imitators. A South Korean firm (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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Thanks for your appreciation notes Dave.I have had a lot of fun making these models out of MEGA BLOKS bricks.Having been a fierce LEGO builder for the past 31 years, it didn't mind to much to me to be offered a job as an advanced designer for a (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) Hamfests (events where ham or amateur radio enthusiasts gather, not places to find the latest scoop on cured pork) often have a "tailgating" area which is basically the same thing, though semi-formalized (it's usually free or just a few (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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all true.. we have a few regular car boot sales here in Cardiff wales as people do all over the UK, depending on the weather, usually 100 - 300 cars full of old junk (some people will buy anything...really) and some fantastic gems. The beauty is if (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) Fellow 'Muricans (and Britons): Here's a useful idiom-digger for US/UK idioms. Who knows, it may help save a life (or avoid a head scratching): (URL) But in short, "binning" = pitching/tossing/---...g/throwing out; "car boot sale" has no (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) James, My English ain't so good. Please translate: "car boot sale" and "binning" Thanks Bob (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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Dave, I agree with you completely. One other thing is that clones offer some interesting options for your creations that you can't find in Lego. Paul (...) :) (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) LEGO® has done plenty to undermine its good name on its own, thankyouverymuch, and the presence of a viable competitor can only serve to remind LEGO® that market solvency is by no means assured. I don't mind or refute that LUGNET-at-large is a (...) (23 years ago, 17-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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