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(...) I actually like K'nex; for a different building system, it ain't so bad. At least they were bold enough to recognize the market for build-your-own-mech toys. Lego is still riding high off of their SW contract, but I suspect that will run dry (...) (23 years ago, 1-Aug-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) Right Steve...that'll goad them into action for sure...I'm sure we'll all see the Robotech LEGO sets *any day now*... 8?) Matt (23 years ago, 1-Aug-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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I hear Ken rolling around in his grave. :-) -- Nicole wife of Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. "Matthew Gerber" <matthew@digitaliris.com> wrote in message news:GHEK9G.BB4@lugnet.com... (...) see? (...) line. (...) the (...) a (...) (23 years ago, 1-Aug-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) What a load of rubbish the K'nex product is. It looks like trash. This must be their answear to the successful Star Wars line. Lego should retaliate with a Robotech/Macross line. I'd love a Lego Destroid Monster or a YF-19. The worst thing (...) (23 years ago, 1-Aug-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.lego.direct)
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AARRGGHH! Must resist, can't, but I must! nooo...ooo! Muahahahahaha! cries the K-nex emperor! I have you now! you can not escape! NOOOOOO! Must-not-buy-stupid-K-nex! But it is so frickin cool! AHHHHH I hate you Lego! why couldn't you have done (...) (23 years ago, 1-Aug-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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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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