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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.
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William R Ward hermit@bayview.com http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/
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