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Re: Lego Press Release - Imitation products destroyed
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Sat, 20 Nov 2004 07:32:21 GMT
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Bryan Kinkel wrote:
Found on http://www.lego.com/eng/info/ .

"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."

http://www.lego.com/eng/info/default.asp?page=pressdetail&contentid=13026&countrycode=2057

Enlighten is a very popular Lego substitution here in Russia, you can see it
sold everywhere. I even have few sets of it at home and I should say it is
pretty good quality for its price. Sure, not as good as authentic Lego, but much
better than other chinese Lego analogs, and several times cheaper. With Lego
prices in Europe and here in Russia in particular, most people just don't have
choice but to buy Enlighten.



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  Lego Press Release - Imitation products destroyed
 
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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