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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Darrell Urbien writes:
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> > To answer your question, Lego DID make a metal 2x4 brick made out of silver
> > and sold them as keychains. They came out about 2 years ago at the
> > Imaginarium Centers (this one located in Minnesota, Mall of America).
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> This is what I was puzzled about. I thought they'd be particularly interested
> in the Aluminum brick keychains because they have a product just like it.
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> So if no one seems to have a problem with making copies, why doesn't anyone
> make clones of hard to find parts and sell them? Especially people like Bram,
> who have access to high end equipment. I know I could produce thousands of say,
> pitchforks, with relatively little effort. (Don't know how much they'd cost,
> though...) To make it really illegal, I could even assign such a project to my
> students in our CAD/CAM program. Hey, that's not a bad idea...
The point is, he produced 22 bricks, not a few thousand. He is absolutely
no threat to take business away from TLC. If he were pirating lego and
selling thousands of them, of course they'll get upset. That he's not
selling them as actual lego, nor emblazing them with the logo, nor using the
same design as the Lego 2x4, it shouldn't be an issue.
Adrian
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| (...) But you're missing MY point. Where's the cut off? When he makes 100? 150? 151? 756? 2002? Would it matter if he wasn't so well known in the AFOL community? I think it opens up a whole can of worms when you start selling the parts, vs. just (...) (22 years ago, 8-Jun-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| (...) This is what I was puzzled about. I thought they'd be particularly interested in the Aluminum brick keychains because they have a product just like it. So if no one seems to have a problem with making copies, why doesn't anyone make clones of (...) (22 years ago, 6-Jun-02, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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