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Re: Over 70 LEGO products copied
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 21 Jan 2004 23:17:39 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Douglas Brod wrote:
> I checked on www.lego.com afterward, and found a press statement (January 20,
> 2003) that they had won a lawsuit against this or a similar company in
> Chinese court. Also, there's a January 22, 2003 press release about 100
> products being pulled from the Hong Kong Toy Fair. Check the press
> archives...it's a yearly thing, apparently.
Of course it is. Getting the products pulled from HKTF doesn't mean anything if
the stores still buy them from the supplier. Obviously the stores either get
buyers there before TLC reps can have the items pulled, or they just play along
with the game in public and buy the stuff discreetly. Knock-off products are
far too profitable in destitute countries to let the confiscation of a handful
of samples to affect them much. The average Chinese family probably couldn't
afford to buy more than a couple baggie LEGO sets each year.
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| (...) (snip) A year ago I was on a 6-month assignment in Shanghai. One day I went to a big grocery store I'd never been to before, and while I was browsing the toy aisles, I saw something that astonished me: knock-off LEGO sets! It was knock-offs of (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.general)
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