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Re: Possible Source of NEW Trains
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 29 Apr 1999 22:18:55 GMT
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Can you imagine if this company made better sets than TLG? If TLG keeps
going the way they do, I might have to switch. From what I have seen, it
looks a lot better than Town Junior does. I like the military sets as
well. Any chance of seeing these in the US? Anyone else?
Scott Sanburn
Lawrence Wilkes wrote:
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> My village toy store started selling Best Lock ( a Lego Compatible) a couple
> of weeks back -
> They have an interesting range (much more extensive than Mega Blocks ever
> was)
> Prices are at least half a comparable Lego set.
> Check out
> http://www.best-lock.com/index.html
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> The web site was not very complete but they say it will cover the full
> catalogue by mid May
>
> Anyway, the real reason I posted was not as an advert for Best Lock (I am
> not connected)
> but I noticed on there home page the following suggestion
> "if we don´t currently make the items you require - talk to us - we may be
> able to help !"
> So I said what about some trains?
> And they replied
> "For about 10 months we have considered the train idea and have a number of
> prototypes in our R&D department. Maybe next year for production !"
>
> Roll on next year I say!
>
> regards
> lawrence
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Message has 2 Replies: | | Re: Possible Source of NEW Trains
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| The military sets are available in some Target stores in the U.S. see news://lugnet.com/F9...lugnet.com or if that link doesn't work, it's 4/10/99 Best-lock post by Ben Vaughan in the off-topic clones newsgroup I got an e-mail in January from their (...) (26 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) You know, previously I would have said you are nuts; LEGO cannot be out done. However, it does seem that LEGO is working very hard at making life easier for the competition. Maybe the competition would get LEGO going in the right direction? (...) (26 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| My village toy store started selling Best Lock ( a Lego Compatible) a couple of weeks back - They have an interesting range (much more extensive than Mega Blocks ever was) Prices are at least half a comparable Lego set. Check out (URL) web site was (...) (26 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.trains)
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