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Re: MOC: Night Owl
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lugnet.build
Date: 
Mon, 27 Dec 2004 10:42:45 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
In lugnet.build, Tim Courtney wrote:
In lugnet.build, Felix Greco wrote:

Hey man-- new light up Darth Vader light-saber.  Anything is possible now.

That's not new...oh, wait.

They copied!

Another rip-off (?) of fan work comes to mind: Located in a brickshelf gallery
(don't recall which one) are some unofficial car parts: shopping cart spoilers,
chromy wheel rims, fins etc, which are now showing up in the 2005 racer sets.
although I can't find the gallery, the new pieces look a lot like the LDraw
versions I had seen.

Legoswami Samarth



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  Re: MOC: Night Owl
 
(...) All sarcasm aside, I would like to know whether LEGO patented this or not, as Rob Hendrix certainly did seem to have been doing this first. I did a bit of digging, this was the best query I could come up with: (URL) patents where InterLEGO is (...) (20 years ago, 27-Dec-04, to lugnet.build)

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