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Re: I've got mine (too)!!!
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 21 Feb 2002 22:09:26 GMT
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"Steve Martin" <martinsa@mail.com> wrote in message
news:GrwJz2.AqL@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.trains, Scott Arthur writes:
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> I wonder if part of the real issue is they had to pay for the license up
> front to BNSF for a specific number and therefore since they were limited
> anyway, they just went ahead and made this a "first-edition" collectors • item.
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> Steve Martin
> IndyLUG
Do we know for a fact that LEGO paid for a license or did they just have to
get permission from BNSF? I read the transcript of Brad's talk at
BricksWest but don't recall how this was phrased.
Mike
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Mike Walsh - mike_walsh at mindspring dot com
http://www.nclug.net - North Carolina LEGO Users Group
http://www.carolinatrainbuilders - Carolina Train Builders
http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp?u=mpw - Brick Depot
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| (...) Oh, I doubt that they paid anything to do it-- they just were covering their bases. There's got to be some unwritten rule (maybe it is written somewhere) allowing model railroad set manufacturers to reproduce train logos new and old. Why (...) (23 years ago, 21-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) I wonder if part of the real issue is they had to pay for the license up front to BNSF for a specific number and therefore since they were limited anyway, they just went ahead and made this a "first-edition" collectors item. Steve Martin (...) (23 years ago, 21-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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