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Re: LEGO® Group wins lawsuit in Finland
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Fri, 6 May 2005 06:55:51 GMT
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Abner Finley wrote:
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LEGO® Group wins lawsuit in Finland
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SNIP
This is good new.
Lego has been plagued by clones for as long as Lego has been produced.
I received a quantity of slotted Lego bricks (1949-57) from a Danish seller.
And in that assortment (about 1000 bricks) there were about 30 clones. These
were slotted bricks that were made of a different plastic (not Cellulose
Acetate). They made a clanging sound when in contact with each other. Even
though it was an inferior plastic (it was borderline opaque), it had one trait
that Cellulose Acetate didn’t have, namely they kept their form (no warping).
But yes these were in fact clones (with no identification on the bricks). In
1958 when TLG got their patent famous patent for the tubes underneath the
bricks, it put a stop to the clones for a while. But not long.
Gary Istok
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| (...) What were the studs like? I have some East German clones from my childhood, the studs are very deformed, as if you had carved a plus sign out of them down to the level of the rest of the brick. Mostly yellow. Neat shingle system for the roof, (...) (20 years ago, 6-May-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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