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Re: "Shifty" rip off brand -- can they get away with this??
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lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands
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Mon, 26 Jul 1999 21:04:20 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Chris Lyman writes:
> I was glancing thru a dollar-shop in lower-mainland British Columbia, Canada,
> a couple days ago when I saw some small LEGO sets for sale • --snipped--
> They are actually "SHIFTY" brand, not LEGO, although the box design, layout,
> graphics, colors, etc. look almost exactly like LEGO, even the SHIFTY logo was
> similar to the LEGO logo. The only difference was the name and also a bunch of
> Chinese characters in small print on the side of the box. Aha.. "Made in
China"
i just got some scans of these from a very reliable source
SIMPLY INCREDIBLE!!
look at these scans!
http://members.xoom.com/legohead/shifty.html
http://members.xoom.com/legohead/shifty2.html
maybe the next "official" theme we'll see out of denmark will be chinese
pirates (nyuk, nyuk)
..joseph g
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