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(...) But that doesn't seem prohibitive to me anyway. They're certainly inventing new pieces all the time these days, and that takes new molds. And at least they'd still have the basic engineering done for retro pieces. (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) One reason that LEGO is constantly inventing new pieces is to make sure that as many elements in a LEGO set are patent-protected. The re-released old sets would not have that advantage. I wouldn't mind if they modified the sets to make them (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Oooh, that's a dangerous path. I can just see it now -- Jrized versions of all our favorite classics. (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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Nephilim <jthompson@esker.com> wrote in article <FMpE99.Jos@lugnet.com>... (...) But correct me if I'm wrong... If LEGO not longer holds patents on the old parts, then that means that no one else does either. And yet.... We don't see Megablocks (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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