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| | | (...) Wouldn't they then also remove LEGO from the top of the studs? -- Scott Smallbeck scotts@contactics.com (25 years ago, 29-Oct-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| | | | | Re: McDonald's Happy Meals Sets -- modified parts —Rob Doucette
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| | | | | 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)
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| | | | | Re: McDonald's Happy Meals Sets -- modified parts —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) 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 —Eric Joslin
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| | | | (...) there (...) Well, I finally managed to get ahold of some of these, and my slope with Ronald's image has the (c) LEGO on the inside. eric (25 years ago, 1-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| | | | | | Re: McDonald's Happy Meals Sets -- modified parts —Frank Filz
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| | | | (...) I just assembled Set #2 and looked closely at the slope. The printing is some kind of transfer, not the usual LEGO printing. I suspect the smooth slope was designed to be a useable surface for these transfers. This will probably set a trend (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo)
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