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Re:Lego has designed a set that can't be taken apart by jacquesm on Friday December 03, 2021 @03:00PM (#29434565)
Lego is a great toy produced by a very shitty company with a long history of fraud and legal aggression. All the way back to day #1 when they ripped off the Kiddiecraft toy, packaging and marketing materials and passed them off as their own.
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Re:Lego has designed a set that can't be taken apart by Nition on Friday December 03, 2021 @06:47PM (#29437099)
I was just going to ask, how does Lego possibly have a claim on the brick design when they ripped that design directly from Kiddicraft?
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Re:Lego has designed a set that can't be taken apart by jacquesm on Friday December 03, 2021 @06:54PM (#29437144)
They tried to whitewash their crime by acquiring Kiddiecraft long after they ripped them off and HP committed suicide. Essentially they have already been told they have no patent on the bricks so this is just scare tactics.

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_clone

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Re:Lego has designed a set that can't be taken apart by trulyme on Saturday December 04, 2021 @11:35AM (#29441926)
HP == Hilary Page, Kiddiecraft founder and inventor of Self-Locking Building Bricks.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Page

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