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(...) I dunno about "a few" decades since there was only about an 11 year overlap before the warehouse fire :) Truth is there were lots of similar products on the market going back to the early 1930's (about 15-20 years before Automatic Binding (...) (22 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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(...) PR Newswire is a service that distributes raw press releases from myriad companies, for a fee. The release (above) is straight from MB, hence it's not intended to be a fair and balanced news article... rather, it's that company's own raw (...) (22 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Dave! Want MegaBlok anecdotes? Here are a couple: After Christmas I got an Alien Agency Mobile Recovery Unit on clearance and gave it to my 8 year-old. He found it very frustrating because the garbage truck would not stay together but fell (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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(...) That's only because Mickey Mouse can't be patented. If he could, you'd be able to renew patents by now. Disney would have seen to it. (...) Since TLC only owned the patent on the fully tubed variety, and none of those clones seems to use a (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, TLC certainly seems to agree, which is why they've been fighting tooth-and-nail to make everyone else stop making clone bricks. (...) Patents expire, whether you want them to or not. The idea is that you can patent something that you (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Hmm. My mistake. I thought you could renew patents, but I guess not. (...) Those are pretty neat! Dave! (22 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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(...) Uh-- did they really 'allow' it to expire? I was under the impression that the patent lasted 20 years, then 'tough noogies'. 1958 was the patent year for the stud-and-tube system, so 1978 would fit the bill... I was interested to see some of (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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(...) Fantastic!!!! I am hoping you won't mind that these little cows will get copied for every train show from now on. Is anyone going to have time to make some for BrickFest? I really hope so. JB (22 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Goodness. I can think of close to a dozen brands that use some variation of the tubes-and-studs clutch system, so recognition could definitely be a problem! (URL) This item> has been mentioned previously on LUGNET, but it seems relevant to (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) This won't likely happen. Previous lawsuits have ruled that MEGABLOKS has erred in marketing its product in a way that can confuse the buyer into thinking that MEGABLOKS are affiliated with or endorsed by LEGO. Therefore, for close to a (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Impartial? Well, sort of, but not in the way that you seem to think. It's called PRNewswire. PR, as in Press Release or Press Relations. This appears to be a website where various corporations can upload their press releases for various news (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, FTX)
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"Dave Schuler" <orrex@excite.com> wrote in message news:I1vw1n.131J@lugnet.com... (...) 25th, (...) will (...) (URL) (...) (URL) (...) brick (...) way? And (...) a (...) Those are great! One way you could make the motion a little different is to (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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Eric- What a great concept! And implementation! And effect! You cut to the heart of what makes a really cool MOC. I'm certainly going to want to put some cows in our pasteur when I get back from BF. -Ted Michon SCLTC (22 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Hi Jake, please add the date/time on this page showing us when it was updated. Thanks, Saso (22 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general)
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Hi Matt, (...) don't confuse trademarks (which don't expire), patents (which do 20 years after filing), and copyright (which expire 70 years ofter the death of the creator). Here LEGO had a patent on the shape of the blocks, which expired long ago, (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, that's fair enough. The LEGO trademark on the standard brick must have expired years ago, it's only the fact that the community automatically associates said brick design with LEGO that prevented Megabloks taking it for themselves ages (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) snip (...) Erik, these are awesome! You have inspired me anew to add automation to our future layouts. A big thanks for providing the instructions as well. Jason (22 years ago, 4-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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I missed the initial post the first time I read about this, but my first thought was magnets. My wife (a non-AFOL) thought magnets too when I showed her the video. I've noticed the train magnets are strong enough to make the magnets twitch on trains (...) (22 years ago, 3-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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(...) snip (...) Wow Eric, Spotlighted! That is SO totally cool!!! I showed my kids and they were amazed, as am I. Truly, imho, it's MOCs like that, that will make HO modelers think twice about the "limitations of the brick". Way to go! Nicely (...) (22 years ago, 3-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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(...) That's exceedingly cool. But since I don't have an RCX, it makes me wonder whether something similar could be done without it. Perhaps a small lever that's pressed by the train as it goes past, which is connected by a hidden string to the (...) (22 years ago, 3-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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