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| | | Author: | ghyde  | | Posted: | Apr 26, 2023 03:54 | | Subject: | Non-LEGO brand construction set in Kmart Aust | | Viewed: | 138 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| I was looking in the LEGO aisle in a Kmart store here in Australia and noticed
there was a couple of non-LEGO brand construction sets that contained some clone
pieces that looked very similar to LEGO brand bricks and slopes. They were labelled
"Dinosaur construction" on the box, and contained parts to build dinosaurs
from clone bricks.
This is just a heads-up to anyone in Australia who might sort out LEGO brick
collections they pick up at flea markets or auctions. They are not LEGO products
and cannot be sold or parted out on this site.
They were extremely similar to LEGO brick designs, on the box information it
was from China as a Kmart brand exclusive.
I left them on the shelves where they belong. I'm not going to post a link
or photos, this message is simply to alert buyers and sellers to yet another
clone brick brand that might get mixed in with genuine LEGO bricks.
I put this message in off-topic as I figured that was the appropriate place for
it.
Cheers ...
ghyde
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| | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Apr 26, 2023 04:37 | | Subject: | Re: Non-LEGO brand construction set in Kmart Aust | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| | | This is just a heads-up to anyone in Australia who might sort out LEGO brick
collections they pick up at flea markets or auctions. They are not LEGO products
and cannot be sold or parted out on this site.
They were extremely similar to LEGO brick designs, on the box information it
was from China as a Kmart brand exclusive.
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There are a huge number of clone manufacturers around now. So many that I think
it is now harder to tell clones apart from each other than it is to identify
genuine LEGO. It wouldn't surprise me if some of these brands are manufactured
in the same place with different logos slapped on the boxes for sale into different
markets.
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| | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Apr 26, 2023 09:10 | | Subject: | Re: Non-LEGO brand construction set in Kmart Aust | | Viewed: | 48 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, yorbrick writes:
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There are a huge number of clone manufacturers around now. So many that I think
it is now harder to tell clones apart from each other than it is to identify
genuine LEGO. It wouldn't surprise me if some of these brands are manufactured
in the same place with different logos slapped on the boxes for sale into different
markets.
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There’s someone who publishe(d?) a mostly yearly review of clone brands. Some
are the same but many are different, with different ‘scary-things-that-are-supposed-to-be-figures.’
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Apr 26, 2023 09:46 | | Subject: | Re: Non-LEGO brand construction set in Kmart Aust | | Viewed: | 54 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Off Topic, yorbrick writes:
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There are a huge number of clone manufacturers around now. So many that I think
it is now harder to tell clones apart from each other than it is to identify
genuine LEGO. It wouldn't surprise me if some of these brands are manufactured
in the same place with different logos slapped on the boxes for sale into different
markets.
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There’s someone who publishe(d?) a mostly yearly review of clone brands. Some
are the same but many are different, with different ‘scary-things-that-are-supposed-to-be-figures.’
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Yeah, the "Communist LEGO" guide ...
https://brickset.com/article/38929/a-survey-of-communist-lego-2018
I don't know if it has been updated since 2018 though.
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Apr 26, 2023 09:52 | | Subject: | Re: Non-LEGO brand construction set in Kmart Aust | | Viewed: | 44 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, yorbrick writes:
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I don't know if it has been updated since 2018 though.
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Ow, like they said: tempus fugit.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | Author: | molten.brick | | Posted: | Apr 28, 2023 11:27 | | Subject: | Re: Non-LEGO brand construction set in Kmart Aust | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| In Off Topic, SylvainLS writes:
| | In Off Topic, yorbrick writes:
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I don't know if it has been updated since 2018 though.
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Ow, like they said: tempus fugit.
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We still have - Toys'R'Us, Woolworths, Target, and other stores
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| | | | | Author: | Sadler_Bricks | | Posted: | Apr 27, 2023 20:25 | | Subject: | Re: Non-LEGO brand construction set in Kmart Aust | | Viewed: | 39 times | | Topic: | Off Topic | |
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| Kmarts nice glad to see they still live in other places
Sadler_Bricks
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