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Re: Trademark defense doesn't work vs Mega Bloks
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lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands
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Thu, 5 Aug 2004 16:57:08 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Dave Schuler wrote:
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This critique is especially useful because one of the common complaints I’ve
heard RE: MEGABLOKS is that the sets don’t stay together well during
assembly. Obviously that’s a gray area, and one’s mileage may vary, but I’ve
never quite understood why a half-built model should be judged in terms of
completed-model stability? If it stays together upon completion, then that’s
a success, IMO.
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Instability during construction hints at two potential major problems. The
first, and easiest to prove, is that it probably won’t stay together as well if
you drop it than it would if the pieces had more consistent clutch strenght.
The second is that it’s hard to say whether a MOC will need special construction
techniques used by the official models before they’ll hold together like a
completed model instead of being super fragile like a half-completed model.
Maybe the official models are all designed to incorporate some sort of
“keystone” brick that manages to lock everything together, but without knowing
how that’s accomplished, there’s no way of guaranteeing that a given MOC will
have any such keystone bricks.
Also, on a more immediate note, it would really suck to have spent a few hours
building part of a model only to have it crumble in your hands when you have to
clear off the table for the evening meal.
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