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Re: Solid Aluminum 2x4 Bricks!
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Date: 
Thu, 6 Jun 2002 00:52:30 GMT
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To answer your question, Lego DID make a metal 2x4 brick made out of silver
and sold them as keychains.  They came out about 2 years ago at the
Imaginarium Centers (this one located in Minnesota, Mall of America).


This is what I was puzzled about. I thought they'd be particularly interested
in the Aluminum brick keychains because they have a product just like it.

So if no one seems to have a problem with making copies, why doesn't anyone
make clones of hard to find parts and sell them? Especially people like Bram,
who have access to high end equipment. I know I could produce thousands of say,
pitchforks, with relatively little effort. (Don't know how much they'd cost,
though...) To make it really illegal, I could even assign such a project to my
students in our CAD/CAM program. Hey, that's not a bad idea...

Darrell (not tempting fate)



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  Re: Solid Aluminum 2x4 Bricks!
 
(...) The point is, he produced 22 bricks, not a few thousand. He is absolutely no threat to take business away from TLC. If he were pirating lego and selling thousands of them, of course they'll get upset. That he's not selling them as actual lego, (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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  Re: Solid Aluminum 2x4 Bricks!
 
(...) To answer your question, Lego DID make a metal 2x4 brick made out of silver and sold them as keychains. They came out about 2 years ago at the Imaginarium Centers (this one located in Minnesota, Mall of America). I do find it funny that I used (...) (22 years ago, 4-Jun-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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