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Re: Lego Press Release - Imitation products destroyed
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lugnet.mediawatch
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Fri, 19 Nov 2004 19:17:58 GMT
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Bryan Kinkel wrote:
> Found on http://www.lego.com/eng/info/ .
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> "Last year, the customs authorities in Finland seized a large consignment of
> copy products in transit between China and Russia. There were 54,514 sets -
> totalling 10.5 tons of imitation productions - all of them blatant copies of
> LEGO products but marketed under the Enlighten brand name."
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> http://www.lego.com/eng/info/default.asp?page=pressdetail&contentid=13026&countrycode=2057
Reuters picked up on the story today:
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=6867833§ion=news
"Record haul of fake Lego to go up in smoke"
HELSINKI (Reuters) - More than 10 tons of Chinese-made plastic toy bricks will
go up in smoke when the largest customs haul of illegal imitation Legos ever
seized is incinerated, a Finnish customs official says.
The bricks were crushed on Thursday and will be burned later to produce energy
for the southern Finnish town of Lahti, the customs officer said on Friday.
Scandinavian environmentalists shouldn't worry: no toxins were found in the
toys.
The phoney Legos, totalling more than 54,500 fake sets, were seized by Finnish
customs last year en route to Russia, said the Danish company that makes the
genuine toys.
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| Found on (URL) . "Last year, the customs authorities in Finland seized a large consignment of copy products in transit between China and Russia. There were 54,514 sets - totalling 10.5 tons of imitation productions - all of them blatant copies of (...) (20 years ago, 18-Nov-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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