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Subject:	Re: My School of Design and Architecture
Newsgroups:	lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town
Date:	Wed, 14 Mar 2001 01:41:53 GMT
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"Brad Hamilton" <bhamilto1@home.com> writes: > Actually, I just realized that another 1x4x6 "juniorized" black panel I had > was non-LEGO today. Brian taught me how to look. If it doesn't say LEGO on > the studs then its not LEGO. This sounds obvious, but this particular piece > really looked like a LEGO SPUD piece. I had always ASSUMED that it was > LEGO. Not always true. Pieces that have the "hollow" studs can't say LEGO on them for obvious reasons. Ditto plates, which have no studs. Usually the word LEGO is somewhere on the underside of the piece in those cases. It can be quite hard to find though. Another indicator is the plastic itself - non-LEGO bricks tend to be made of cheaper-feeling plastic. But be careful there too: LEGO has used several different plastics over the years. Luckily, the non-LEGO bricks that closely resemble LEGO are all relatively new: the really old non-LEGO bricks were not truly compatible with LEGO because of TLG's fierce defense of its intellectual property. So if it's really old and looks like LEGO, it probably is. --Bill. -- William R Ward hermit@bayview.com http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others."-Groucho Marx

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		Re: My School of Design and Architecture
(...) "Hollow" studs, like on Technic bricks, have the LEGO logo inside the stud. (...) c /plates/tiles/ (...) Often it's a LEGO copyright mark on the underside of the piece. A 1x4x6 piece is large enough that it should say LEGO on it somewhere. (...) (24 years ago, 14-Mar-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town)

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		Re: My School of Design and Architecture
Actually, I just realized that another 1x4x6 "juniorized" black panel I had was non-LEGO today. Brian taught me how to look. If it doesn't say LEGO on the studs then its not LEGO. This sounds obvious, but this particular piece really looked like a (...) (24 years ago, 25-Feb-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.town)

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