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| Long story short, Guy buys gun from brickgun.com, guy builds toy at office, neighbor across the street sees gun thru window, neighbor calls the cops. SWAT does what SWAT does and "take down" guy with lego. Lego guy fully complies and was released (...) (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
| | | | | Re: LEGO® Launches Battle Over Trademark
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| (...) That's an interesting question to ponder. When LEGO-scale Mega Bloks came onto the scene, they filled a gap that LEGO had left open. Namely, MB produced simple sets with large quantities of basic elements in unusual colors, such as military (...) (15 years ago, 23-Nov-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| (...) Happens now and again. As I recall, toy vehicles that transformed into robots were marketed in the USA with almost no success, but Hasbro took the idea, attached a story line to it, and an animated show, and it took off like wildfire. I expect (...) (15 years ago, 23-Nov-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| (...) You're assuming that TLC actually took cues from MB in terms of how to fix their business model. In terms of the AFOL market, all it meant to TLC was that their customers stopped buying as much stuff, not that they started buying the (...) (15 years ago, 22-Nov-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| (...) Here's a better question. If that had been the case, would anyone have even had the desire to attempt to clone MB at all? There are several different construction toy systems out there, and so far the only one I've really seen any non-bootleg (...) (15 years ago, 22-Nov-09, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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