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Post by baraklava on Jun 23, 2022 11:33:26 GMT
Hello! I encountered these a while back: www.flickr.com/photos/126975831@N07/51933359649/Someone has been trying to sell them as "incredibly rare Lego prototypes" but others are claiming that they're older Mega Bloks, which sounds more likely, in particular one user mentioned the "Warriors Future Force" and "Transforming Blok-Bots" lines. It got me curious and I've been trying to find out where they're from, I have looked at pictures of these older Mega Bloks sets but haven't seen the piece anywhere. Does anyone know where this piece appears, if it's Mega Bloks, or have pictures of it? Thank you! Bonus: These also look like Mega Bloks but I don't think Mega Brands ever released an Egypt line? They look like someone stamped "Lego" onto the studs of another brand at least: http://instagr.am/p/BdTXizqn_Q_
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Post by The Hegemon on Jun 23, 2022 21:25:39 GMT
I'm going to take a stab and say guardedly that those look like part AM09893 Plate 2 x 2 round with hole: They're not very common, and the first they appear in our inventory database is 2009, a little after Blok-Boks or the Warriors series. I haven't inventoried all of the sets in those lines, though, because the instruction booklets don't include part numbers. I don't recall seeing the 2x2 round plate in any of them though. If the ones in the picture were MEGA elements, they'd very likely (though not 100% certainly) have the part number embossed on the underside. I'll therefore conclude tentatively that these are a third-tier competitor brand, rather than MEGA or LEGO. Welcome to The Bloks Forum, by the way!
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Post by baraklava on Jun 24, 2022 10:33:16 GMT
> Welcome to The Bloks Forum, by the way! Thank you, your catalog of parts was great to look through, hope you get to add more parts! As for this part in question, I realise the angle was bad in the first image, let me get a better picture. The "bottom" you see is identical on both sides, like so: It's essentially mirrored top-to-bottom. This part has never been produced by Lego and I can't find any competitor that have produced it. It is an interesting piece, but I can't wrap my head around as to how it was supposed to be used in sets? I've seen the Mega 2x2 "male:male" plate, but this is a very special case indeed... and there are so many of it, I feel like the brand it came from would've used this in many sets? Either way, if anyone can figure out exactly what we are looking at and which sets it came in, that'd be lovely!
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Post by The Hegemon on Jun 24, 2022 11:08:31 GMT
Oh! That's cool--a female:female 2x2 round connector!
Tyco had a square 2x2 male:male connector, but I haven't seen this one before.
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Post by baraklava on Jun 28, 2022 7:30:44 GMT
Tyco has a 2x2 female:female connector plate too, but it isn't round! If you look at this image and can't immediately tell what is Lego or not, then I hope you understand why I'm so damn skeptical as to why these round connectors would suddenly be Lego prototypes! Unfortunately Tyco, and many other brick-based brands, isn't usually as well catalogued as Lego, so it's hard to know if the piece might be Tyco or some other theme
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