Subject:
|
Re: Trademark defense doesn't work vs Mega Bloks
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands
|
Date:
|
Thu, 5 Aug 2004 20:24:53 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
1755 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, David Laswell wrote:
| |
In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Dave Schuler wrote:
| |
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.
|
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.
|
That reminds me...
Years ago I purchased a Syquest EZ-Drive with 1GB storage discs. A friend
decried them as an unworthy product, saying that I could lose a ton of data if I
happened to drop or step on or otherwise damage the disc. I said “poo-poo.”
The inability of the user to avoid damaging the device is not the fault of the
device. However, I can now see that, if I had put a lot of important eggs in
that magnetic storage basket, I could indeed have lost a lot of important stuff.
It still wouldn’t be the fault of the product, exactly, but it would be an
annoying (and possibly costly) inconvenience to me.
I guess that’s similar to what you’re describing. If you’re worried about what
will happen to your half-completed model when you drop it, then don’t drop it.
(Doctor, my arm hurts when I do this...) Accidents happen, yes, but that’s not
the fault of MEGABLOKS. I don’t have a lot of LEGO sets that would hold
together mid-build if I dropped them to the floor, either.
| |
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.
|
Not sure if I understand this one. Do mean that official models might include
some not-immediately-apparent keystone that a builder might not think to include
in a MOC?
| |
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.
|
Well, that’s indisputable.
Dave!
|
|
Message has 2 Replies:
Message is in Reply To:
13 Messages in This Thread:
  
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
