MICRO(?) ROLLETA SET - MECHANICAL PENCIL AND ROLLERBALL PEN
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This is quite an interesting mechanical pencil and rollerball set of Micro.
As I said, Micro copied many designs to make pens in a cheap price relative to their good qualities.
With a shred of conscience, Micro never copied designs exactly.
Micro always changed design by altering colors or merging different designs.
So what Micro did was plagiarism, not copying.
In that sense, these are highly interesting pens.
Have you seen RS500 mechanical pencil of Sakura brand before?
If you know what it is, you will find out that they are exactly the same.
This is the RS500 model of Sakura's rolleta mechanical pencil.
I couldn't find the difference between these two mechanical pencils.
Even more interesting thing is that Micro even didn't delete its name!
This one has exactly same notation 0.5 ROLLETA with the same font!
Did Micro forget to remove this?
I've seen so many Micro pens, but this one is the first thing that Micro exactly copied another design, and even the name.
The grip and the cone are the same too.
The only difference is the Micro logo.
How dare Micro printed its name on it!
Furthermore, Micro made a product that plagiarised the same model, Rolleta of Sakura.
Its name is Minerva.
As I said, when Micro copied a design, they at least changed the color.
So this model, Micro's Minerva, has different color combination.
Even though the design is the same, it has gold colored metals and black body.
Going back to the Micro's Rolleta mechanical pencil, what on earth is this?
Here's my theory. I suppose this to be the prototype of Micro's Minerva model.
Before Micro released the Minerva model, Micro might have made this Rolleta model as a trial and error.
I even don't know whether this model was officially published, so I further guess that this model could be not for sale.
Anyway, it doesn't have any stickers, paper inserts, and even the name on the case.
I'm calling it Rolleta, but it's not its name.
Micro just copied the letter "0.5 ROLLETA", so it's hard to say that this is its official name.
Therefore my conclusion is that this model is a prototype model with no name.
The eraser looks like a fishcake bar.
It has a cleaner pin.
It also has a corresponding rollerball pen.
The design also came from Sakura's Rolleta rollerball pen.
This one has no name on it.
Still, it uses Micro's rollerball refill.
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