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Subject:	Re: Careful what you wish for: clone LOTR blocks sighted
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.fun
Date:	Tue, 16 Oct 2001 02:42:51 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Aaron Dalan writes: > 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. 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 articulated figures, for the same reason that LEGO can't make Star Wars figs larger than minfig size. Still, you'd think Intelli-Blox might have made smaller, better LOTR figs, but who knows? Even Block-Men, from which these are apparently descended, had several points of articulation. I'm a clone zealot, so I'll probably buy the whole line, but I can understand people's disgruntlement. Dave!

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		Re: Careful what you wish for: clone LOTR blocks sighted
(...) A clone zealot, are you? Do you have the Tyco castles from the 80's? (25 years ago, 16-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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		Re: Careful what you wish for: clone LOTR blocks sighted
(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 15-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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