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Re: McDonald's Happy Meals Sets -- modified parts
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lugnet.promo
Date: 
Fri, 29 Oct 1999 19:38:42 GMT
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In lugnet.promo, Eric Joslin writes:

Is it possible the (C)LEGO has been removed because the printing is a
McDonald's character?


Wouldn't they then also remove LEGO from the top of the studs?

--
Scott Smallbeck
scotts@contactics.com



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  Re: McDonald's Happy Meals Sets -- modified parts
 
A common practice in plastic mold tooling is to use inserts for variable mold features such as part numbering. The LEGO text on the studs is probably hard tooled. The part number and copyright marks on the inside may well be removable (changeable) (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.promo)
  Re: McDonald's Happy Meals Sets -- modified parts
 
(...) Not really. The LEGO logo doesn't imply intellectual property rights on the whole brick (which would include the likeness of the McCopyrighted character). It could just be an odd occurrence -- the copyright notice in the mold was damaged, so (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.promo)

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  Re: McDonald's Happy Meals Sets -- modified parts
 
(...) I thought this was true of all printed sloped bricks? I had actually assumed that the printing process would be fould somehow by the rough surface. (...) brick (...) present (...) Is it possible the (C)LEGO has been removed because the (...) (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.promo)

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