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I still have my Lego phone. It was made by Tyco. It has a small drawer in the side of the phone for storing a few bricks and the top of the phone is like a large baseplate. Even the phone's buttons have studs. I didn't know it was rare. I'm actually (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Given that you can replace most of the plastic panels of some mobile phones these days (the 5110 springs to mine) replacing the plastic with lego shouldn't be too hard. Even if you cant replace it with lego then you vould replace it with a (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Huh? That's like saying you own a box of Kleenix made by Puffs. Or that you own a Hoover made by Black & Decker. --Todd (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Mike, does it look like (URL) to novelties, and at the bottom of the page there is a phone. I don't think this is the one I was thinking of however...I think the one I was thinking of was more blocky, with a normal reciever. More like a plate (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Or a Dumpster made by um, uh.... somebody other than Toccoa Metal Technologies. Trademark dilution at work! (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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(...) <URL:(URL) (or <URL:(URL), but that's worse....) That's definitely the Tyco phone. Someone less lazy than I should e-mail them and have them fix it. (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | LEGO trademark (was: Re: What I did for the Y2K weekend...[lego phone])
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(...) Yah! And -- bing! -- now I think I *finally* understand the subtle point that TLG legal counsel was trying to explain to me when they asked me to change the name of my "Fibblesnork LEGO Backgrounds" page[1]: it shows pictures of 2x2 LEGO (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.publish)
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(...) I'm reasonably sure that is not the phone I was thinking of however...not positive, but reasonably sure. I think (this is me thinking! scary!) that the NORTEL phone was available around 1988/89, because that is when we got our second phone (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LEGO trademark (was: Re: What I did for the Y2K weekend...[lego phone])
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(...) A quandry for marketing, I'm sure. Legal keeps saying "No, Foobrand does not equal barproduct!", while the advertising folks are trying to convince people exactly the opposite. (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: LEGO trademark (was: Re: What I did for the Y2K weekend...[lego phone])
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(...) Leading to meetings out of which come concepts like "Dove is not soap", I'm sure. (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: LEGO trademark (was: Re: What I did for the Y2K weekend...[lego phone])
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(...) Mom, can I play with my LEGO brand plastic automatic binding bricks....PLEASE! (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: LEGO trademark (was: Re: What I did for the Y2K weekend...[lego phone])
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(...) Yep, that's pretty much what they ask you to say. You can shorten it to just "LEGO bricks", if you want. <URL:(URL), of course. Of course, if you're polite about it, as a non-lawyer and non-Lego-employee, I advocate calling the product "Lego" (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: LEGO trademark (was: Re: What I did for the Y2K weekend...[lego phone])
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(...) What about LUGnet? Posts are archived essentially forever, after all. (And I suspect that even if Todd's were to suddenly go offline, they could be pieced together fromthe archives in various formats on people's newsreaders/email clients..) (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: LEGO trademark (was: Re: What I did for the Y2K weekend...[lego phone])
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(...) Archived forever != formal. It's all grey area ('cept when you're selling stuff), so if you don't feel comfortable using Lego as a noun here, by all means don't. (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.publish)
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