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Subject: 
Re: "Star Wars Parts" used in other themes - Toy Fair
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lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars
Date: 
Tue, 12 Feb 2002 09:27:19 GMT
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Remember that some of the Harry Potter pieces are copyright Lego and
Warners, so pieces are not necessarily pieces

--
James Stacey
---------
www.minifig.co.uk
#925 - I'm a citizen of Legoland travelling Incommunicado

"Matthew Gerber" <matthew@digitaliris.com> wrote in message
news:GrDs0w.43o@lugnet.com...
In lugnet.general, Chris Maddison writes:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is the first set to use "Star Wars • pieces"
in a non-SW set (I'm talking about the Battle Droid arms on the blue • racer).

Weren't the click hinges developed for SW first? They're in everything • now.

Maybe this changes some things previously thought about the license
agreement between LEGO and Lucasfilm?

How so? Parts are parts, right? It's the configuration in sets that the
license would cover, if I'm not mistaken.

Matt



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(...) I think, though, that the only parts that that would cover would be those actually bearing WB trademarked properties, like the HP character minifig heads, sorting hat, that sort of thing. Or, for SW, the yoda minifig head, the Sebulba peice, (...) (23 years ago, 12-Feb-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)

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(...) Weren't the click hinges developed for SW first? They're in everything now. (...) How so? Parts are parts, right? It's the configuration in sets that the license would cover, if I'm not mistaken. Matt (23 years ago, 11-Feb-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.starwars)

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