Brick-lovin’ Peanuts fans rejoice!

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AAUGHfriend Torsten covered the recent Toy Fair, including a large line of Peanuts pseudoLegos! Go read!

While wandering every aisle of ToyFair, I spied this display: What the…?!  Peanuts?! Construction sets? At first, I thought it might be counterfeit, as the box design and quality was a bit ch…

Source: Toy Fair 2017: Peanuts Construction Sets? From China!

Some of them seem to be odd choices…

…but at least this time Lucy doesn’t get a lemonade stand, as she did in the movie-linked brick line!

Go read the article for many more pics and details!

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