2019-08-29 - The LEGO Group: Unauthorized Use of the LEGO Group Intellectual Property - kiwifarms.net [Case #652509]

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AnOminous said:
Companies took a lot of bad PR from sending hyperaggressive, insulting trademark letters on marginal things they weren't ever going to sue about and smarter companies try not to be utter dicks about this kind of letter any more. So when they do, they're either being exceptional or they really are saying they're going to sue if you don't knock off whatever they're complaining about.

There is absolutely no need for lawyers to be complete dicks in everything they do and it's actually bad practice.
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Might have something to do with having more lawyers on retainer than they actually need, which fact the lawyers themselves would be most keenly aware of. Hence, the busy work.
 
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Diabeetus said:
So essentially, they're like the Sega of toy companies, and Lego is their Sonic. How sad.
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Sega used to be a large chunk of the market and they pissed away their share due to bad (or rather unfortunate) decisions... Lego is even worse, if you can believe that.

There was no competition to Lego a few years ago, then emerged Cobi, Qihui, Lepin and so on and Lego just failed to really do anything. They nickle-and-dime their customers, they shit out passionless products and have really assbackwards ideas on how to attract and retain customers. Meanwhile, Cobi and Qihui, etc. offer much more interesting products for smaller prices (the quality used to not be en par with Lego, granted, but the difference is almost non-existent nowadays).
Cobi has stuff like WW2 tanks and planes or battleships. Qihui has stuff like houses, racecar-models and so on.

Believe it or not, Lego has barely any interesting house-sets in their catalogue.

To make a long story short:
Sega was a big player in the video game market, but they made a few bad decisions and lost their share against another strong brand.
Lego used to be the ONLY player in their market, and utter incompetence has opened the door to literal nobodies to take away Lego's market. There was no competition, but Lego's incompetence allowed competition to grow like mushrooms in a forest after a late summer rain.
 
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LEGO is legit ridiculously secretive about future products. A friend of mine works at a lego store and mentions how a friend got fired for taking pictures to share just with other friends that worked at the same store of things that were about to be released.

But the real question is how did they find out about this place?
 
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moocow said:
Preposterous. The Erector Set is the superior building platform. Lego can keep their precious plastic squares. Real men build working power tools with their construction sets.

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Ooh! Oooh! I had those! The REAL constructor sets with the "Cut-A-Kid"® edges on every piece. Bloody good fun! (or maybe I just lacked manual dexterity, as many assembled "Pile o' Glue and Parts" model kits would attest.)
 
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ooooOOOOOOOOoooooo, what they gunna do? put da lego brick near mu paws? haw haw haw!
 
Coral Apples said:
...are they real? It’s out there. On the internet. Whether or not it’s on Kiwi or Twitter, it’s been seen and been saved to a million different computers, whether intended too or not.

Also gotta love the generic email sent to anyone that has this posted anywhere. Like anyone would take that seriously.
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And it's just freaking Star Wars sets that everyone already knew they would make and LEGO is the only license holder to (for building block toys, you won't see any MegaBlox sets)

So what the hell is the big deal? Ooooh their non existant competitors now know they were making Star Wars sets, like they have for the past 20 years :O

This might be the tamest, dumbest request this site has seen yet.
 
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The Jumping Dwarf said:
Playmobil for life, fuckers. Here seen driving the WAAAAHmbulance to pick up the mongs at Lego.

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A true patrician. They were inclusive as fuck years before it was a thing.
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Kerth Gersen said:
Might have something to do with having more lawyers on retainer than they actually need, which fact the lawyers themselves would be most keenly aware of. Hence, the busy work.
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If you have trademarks, you lose them if you just let other people use them and do nothing. So you have to do a lot of activity that looks ridiculous and will never lead to litigation because you'll have to prove you did do that stuff if you ever do actually sue.
 
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Shaved Kiwis said:
Fuck Lego and fuck licensed Lego sets. They cost more than standard legos and the whole fucking point is that you should be able to buy a bunch of random sets and build whatever you want. Not follow some bullshit instruction sheet.
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I have looked through sets at stores and there are very few generic sets for building whatever. And even those just aren't the same anymore.
 
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Kerth Gersen said:
Ooh! Oooh! I had those! The REAL constructor sets with the "Cut-A-Kid"® edges on every piece. Bloody good fun! (or maybe I just lacked manual dexterity, as many assembled "Pile o' Glue and Parts" model kits would attest.)
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Damn straight. It wasn't a valid build unless you could point to a piece within that had collected a drop of blood or a layer of skin from one of your fingertips while you were building it.

But then you had a working sawmill, a roller coaster, a crane, or some other monstrously wonderful machine at your disposal when you were finished. Lego sucked by comparison. "Oh look. I have an organized pile of bricks now. *Cough*."
 
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