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Subject:	Re: Careful what you wish for: clone LOTR blocks sighted
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.fun
Date:	Mon, 15 Oct 2001 23:23:30 GMT
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> In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Dave Schuler writes: > > Regardless, the sets look like crap. Lego would have done LOTR better... > > I'm not so sure. The Prancing Pony set seems to include more actual > bricks than all the Potter sets combined. When was the last time LEGO > released an actual structure made of actual bricks, rather than a handful of > 1x2x5's, or the equivalent? > > Dave! Well, that is a good point. It is pretty sad when one set of Intellibox or whatever for $30.00 has more bricks than the $189.00 combined Harry Potter universe on S@H. My favorite thing about Lego is the minifigs, and those sculpted monstrosities from the Intellibox LoTR sets are just, IMNSHO, inexcusable. My initial reaction was largely based on that.

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		Re: Careful what you wish for: clone LOTR blocks sighted
(...) Yeah, from what I've heard, they're just about as awful as they could be. The only mitigating factor might be merchandising rights; what company owns the minifig licensing? If it's not Playmates, then I can see why Intelli-Blox can't make (...) (23 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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		Re: Careful what you wish for: clone LOTR blocks sighted
(...) I'm not so sure. The Prancing Pony set seems to include more actual bricks than all the Potter sets combined. When was the last time LEGO released an actual structure made of actual bricks, rather than a handful of 1x2x5's, or the equivalent? (...) (23 years ago, 15-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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