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Re: Scans of 1960's ads
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Wed, 26 Apr 2000 21:12:35 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Todd Lehman writes:

They actually say:

  "Give your child enough Lego® and his imagination may get carried away."

and:

  "It would take about three thousand boxes of Lego to build a giant
  elephant like this..."

I wonder what year they decided that "Lego" was no longer the toy but the
brand?

I always think of those Susan Williams statements on the backs of the catalogs
when I was a kid -- they said we should call the toy "LEGO bricks" or "LEGO
building bricks," etc.  :)

I'll bet that the change came when Lego reacquired the Samsonite License in
'73 and decided that they needed to more carefully control their trademark.



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  Re: Scans of 1960's ads
 
(...) I find the text on the elephant page historically interesting, BTW! :) (URL) actually say: "Give your child enough Lego® and his imagination may get carried away." and: "It would take about three thousand boxes of Lego to build a giant (...) (25 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)

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