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Subject:	Re: Careful what you wish for: clone LOTR blocks sighted
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands
Date:	Sat, 13 Oct 2001 17:14:35 GMT
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Wow. I was excited to see this, but, it looks yucky. The Buckleberry ferry set has neat lanterns, if they detach. I would try these out to see if the details can be reusable. But: these sets have no soul. They don't even have three walls! FYI, the Tolkien Society (the J.R.R. Tolkien estate), is totally uninvolved in this merchandising. New Line Cinema acquired the movie rights from other parties, I don't know how the toy rights are tied in but last time it was Elan. I guess it's all legal now. The Tolkien family are mortified by the latest turns, and have been stalked by crazy fans and driven into hiding, anonymity, and expatronymy. Don't be a crazy fan. -Erik (playing with his LOTR puzzles from 1979)

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		Re: Careful what you wish for: clone LOTR blocks sighted
(...) I am sorry to hear that the Tolkien family are having trouble. Tolkien himself would have greatly disapproved of all of the toy sets. He liked the images generated by his work to reside in the minds of his readers, not by the forced domination (...) (23 years ago, 15-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)

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		Careful what you wish for: clone LOTR blocks sighted
(Note follow-ups.) I've seen a couple mentions recently on various newsgroups that Playmates Toys had a "construction toy" license for Lord of the Rings. Never saw any concrete info, though Playmates has an "Intelli-Blox" logo on their website (not (...) (23 years ago, 12-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, lugnet.harrypotter)

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