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Re: Looking for dimensions of LEGO bricks.
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lugnet.cad
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Date:
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Thu, 28 May 2009 07:14:25 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Allen Smith wrote:
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That’s hardly some freak coincidence. The original 1949 Lego brick was an
unauthorized copy of the Kiddicraft Self-Locking Building Brick, invented by
an Englishman named Hilary Page.
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I was aware of the Kiddiecraft connection, and that TLC bought all the remaining
rights from them at some point, but I thought the original Automatic Binding
Bricks were a legally licensed copy/variation of the Kiddiecraft bricks. If
they were, in fact, illegal copies, that kinda throws all the aggresive legal
action taken against various clone brands in a weird sort of light.
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 | | Re: Looking for dimensions of LEGO bricks.
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| (...) That's hardly some freak coincidence. The original 1949 Lego brick was an unauthorized copy of the Kiddicraft Self-Locking Building Brick, invented by an Englishman named Hilary Page. When the Christiansens got samples of them from the British (...) (15 years ago, 28-May-09, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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