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| nalydbokaj wrote: And do you even remember the one from 1991 with the glow-in-the-dark Flexiblocks? I totally remember that one!
You were thinking of Glow in the Dark Better Blocks from 1993. Here's the commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzjyaJZF8JY
As I remember right, Flexiblocks did not glow in the dark. They had only the Flexiblocks that were first launched in 1984, the Flexiwheels that were launched in 1987 when they aired the first commercial, the Flexibears that were launched in 1989 and were advertised, the Flexiswivels that were launched in 1992 and were advertised, and the LEGO adapters called Flexilinks that were launched in 1994.
Better Blocks had the original Better Blocks rainbow colors from 1992 and did come with the LEGO-compatible adapters from the start, the Glow in the Dark Better Blocks from 1993, the Super Jumbo Kit from 1994, the Wheels and Axles Kit from 1994, Bigger Better Blocks from c. 1994, Magic Color Change Better Blocks (I am looking for that commercial, too) from 1995, and later sets that had all three types from 1996 and 1997, and the ones that include Sparkle Blocks in 1998 and were not advertised on TV.
I did find out that the original Better Blocks commercial here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYK08de4D1Q
did have the bulldozer treads made out of Flexiblocks at 0:29. As what Flexitoys told me, they sued Better Blocks International over that and it led to pulling the commercial from the air and redoing the bulldozer footage using Better Blocks for the treads.
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