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Re: Interesting retail pack
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lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Date: 
Tue, 6 Aug 2002 03:56:04 GMT
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XFUT:  Off-topic.fun

In lugnet.lego.direct, Conrad Frank writes:
> On Mon, 5 Aug 2002 19:27:13 GMT, "Christopher Weeks"
> <clweeks@eclipse.net> wrote:
> 
> > In lugnet.lego.direct, David Eaton writes:
> > > In lugnet.lego.direct, Troy Cefaratti writes:
> > > > Would anyone from LEgo care to comment on this:
> > > > 
> > > > http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/kkoleda/meetings/August2002/pic00015.jpg
> > 
> > 
> > I vote for a pretty good fake.  If you look at the reflections on the • plastic
> > surface of the blister pack and track them around, you can see one that
> > traverses the price tag.  How do they get the price tag under the plastic?
> > 
> > And the blister plastic seems to over extend the cardboard at least on the • left
> > side of the image.
> > 
> > But pretty cool, really.
> > 
> > Chris
> 
> Well, if it is a fake, it appears that someone went to the trouble to
> actually make one, as it shows up on the table in these other shots in
> the same gallery:
> 
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=222086
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=222087

That much makes sense--that someone actually DID make one in order to take the
pictures.  But that does not prove or disprove that the item in question is or
is NOT a genuine Lego product.

My vote is that it is NOT a genuine Lego product.  If it were, I would call it
the lamest excuse for a service pack I have ever seen.

Somebody just has too much time on their hands.  I doubt that it is Troy, but
is likely someone he knows.    :)

Perhaps my calendar is on the wrong month (August or April?)  :~)


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XFUT: Off-topic.fun because I believe this to be a hoax.



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  Re: Interesting retail pack
 
"Kevin Salm" <kdsalm@dreamscape.com> wrote in message news:H0ELLI.K33@lugnet.com... (...) call it (...) but (...) It was not me. I just happened to come accross it on Brickshelf and thought it was the oddest thing i'd seen in a while. I did not (...) (24 years ago, 6-Aug-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.lego.direct)

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(...) Well, if it is a fake, it appears that someone went to the trouble to actually make one, as it shows up on the table in these other shots in the same gallery: (URL) (24 years ago, 5-Aug-02, to lugnet.lego.direct)

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