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

  • 🐕 I am attempting to get the site runnning as fast as possible. If you are experiencing slow page load times, please report it.
Status
Not open for further replies.
RomanesEuntDomus said:
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.
Click to expand...
Most of LEGO's problem was an addiction to licensed sets. Most of the sets by the late 1990s were retreads of ice and space themes, but I remember it first with Star Wars Episode I. Within a decade, the licensed sets had taken over the company, with even the venerable train line being replaced with a new system to be cheaper to manufacture, and the occasional police/rescue set, replacing the gutted "Lego Land" city line. The only other line was the "giant building" line, like a Statue of Liberty with copper-green bricks, and all of these sets were super-expensive.
 
  • Agree
Reactions: Space Police, Ellesse_warrior, RomanesEuntDomus and 4 others
Now that Lego knows our existence, we may finally get Sonichu/Chris Chan Lego sets now
Think of the custom pieces they can make for this blocky version of our dear boy.
Chris_Lego.jpg


Also Lego make this
1ig5aw.jpg
 
  • Like
Reactions: Ellesse_warrior, Dork Of Ages, Marvin and 6 others
Xarpho said:
Most of LEGO's problem was an addiction to licensed sets. Most of the sets by the late 1990s were retreads of ice and space themes, but I remember it first with Star Wars Episode I. Within a decade, the licensed sets had taken over the company, with even the venerable train line being replaced with a new system to be cheaper to manufacture, and the occasional police/rescue set, replacing the gutted "Lego Land" city line. The only other line was the "giant building" line, like a Statue of Liberty with copper-green bricks, and all of these sets were super-expensive.
Click to expand...

I used to love their little non-licensed theme sets. I fell out of legos when they really ramped up the licenses... and Bionicle.
 
  • Like
Reactions: ⠠⠠⠅⠑⠋⠋⠁⠇⠎ ⠠⠠⠊⠎ ⠠⠠⠁ ⠠⠠⠋⠁⠛ and Gottahavemysips
Maybe Lego should have kept their IPs like Bionicle going (the g1 Bionicle not the whack ass reboot) instead of being relegated to the endless inanity of producing boring licensed sets for the rest of time. Then they wouldn't have to be bitches doing another company's dirty work.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Dork Of Ages
Gottahavemysips said:
Maybe Lego should have kept their IPs like Bionicle going (the g1 Bionicle not the whack ass reboot) instead of being relegated to the endless inanity of producing boring licensed sets for the rest of time. Then they wouldn't have to be bitches doing another company's dirty work.
Click to expand...

The real thing with Bionicle was that they released those sets and "evolutions" entirely too fast. I was all in on buying the mask packs and comics but it seemed like they were releasing sets and advancing the story massively in short time periods. It was like I blinked and I was insanely behind.
 
  • Agree
Reactions: Ellesse_warrior and Gottahavemysips
Don't want to mess with LEGO man, they'll hire a guy to shadow you and drop lego pieces wherever you walk barefooted.
 
Liquid Cool said:
The real thing with Bionicle was that they released those sets and "evolutions" entirely too fast. I was all in on buying the mask packs and comics but it seemed like they were releasing sets and advancing the story massively in short time periods. It was like I blinked and I was insanely behind.
Click to expand...
Absolutely, but as a kid they were practically the only toy other than normal Lego I really ever wanted. My brother and I had all the original toa, the bohrok, and most of the Nuva. Stopped really collecting after the toa Mahri?(iirc) sets. Even then I still followed the story. I read all the comics and had most of the novels. Even without the sets there was some great related media. I'm still pissed that they rushed the ending for the abortion that was hero factory. Lego is even worse now, they have a few city sets but everything else is licensed practically. What happened to shit like pirates, knights, rock raiders, or the explorers line? It would probably make just as much money and they wouldn't have to pay licensing fees. I don't know, maybe the toy market has changed.
 
  • Like
Reactions: cassette man
Fleshy Sanik said:
Null telling lego, and by extension Das Maus to fuck off...

RIP
Suicide by choking on plastic bricks incoming
Click to expand...

It wasn't even an actual threat. A real C&D has a number of elements.

The most important, though, are:
  • a statement of what law or right of the sender you are violating
  • a demand that you do or desist from doing something; and
  • a statement of what the consequences will be if you do not (usually involving being sued).

Notice what this letter lacks. It doesn't have one of those things.

So if you get a letter like this and are wondering how to evaluate it, look at what you're being accused of doing, what you're being told to stop doing, and finally, what the promised consequences are if you don't.
 
  • Agree
  • Informative
  • Like
Reactions: Ellesse_warrior, Dork Of Ages, YayLasagna and 3 others
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back