![]() What I do is group the clones together, discard the worst-quality ones and keep the good ones in a bag. For some reason megabloks and other clone bricks tend to be in better condition. My worst concern are filth then I have serious issues with scratched bricks, specially those bricks which have micro scratches which make them look old and used. To be honest, megabloks are the least of my concerns about finding creepy stuff in "LEGO" bulks. That's probably one of the reasons I had a break on the purchase of those things. I usually find megabloks in the bulks I buy. My latest megajunk pile will probably get sent to a local charity shop, marked "No LEGO, Megablocks only" and hopefully some weak minded reseller with the IQ of a rock would buy then resell on eBay the lot at ridiculously high, like normal LEGO high. That was before I went into the Dark Age a decade ago, about a year before PayPal. He got a bag of 12 Hot Wheels missing lot of original paint, a load of empty candy wrappers, several domino (not complete), several card from games like UNO, plastic military figures, and other odd and ends that had nothing to do with building blocks. I did off one buyer, he offered a nice sum for "anything I find and removed from Megablocks". I went through them and threw out LEGO and other non Megablock junk" Gets buyer's attention and had a few "under the table" offers for those LEGO that I "threw" away. I keep all the junk bricks I find into one pile, and when it gets big enough I sell em on eBay under the guise "Megablock lot, 99% Megablock. Do you throw it on the floor, make a cross with your fingers, and yell "Begone, vile doppleganger!" or what? Or maybe you burn every one in hope of appeasing LEGO God and your next haul would be better. ![]() Please to explain how supporting open competition in the free market is a characteristic of communism.What would you do if you find any inferior clone bricks in your LEGO lot? Maybe a lot you found at Garage Sale, Boot Sale, eBay, etc and it has a few junk mixed in. If you had actually bothered to read the article, you would have noticed that the reason the trademark was rejected was because it was attempting to protect a functional design.Īre you such a communist that you can’t see why duplicating a companies design should be prevented? If someone were to make a mold of the pillsbury dough boy and sale them do you not think that they would be stopped? It would indicate that Mega made a mold that allowed for interchangeable use with LEGO blocks. Wouldn’t the very fact that the blocks are interchangeable indicate the MegaBlocks simply made a mold of a LEGO block and duplicated the design? LEGO is attempting to continue their monopoly be resorting to trademark law. LEGO blocks were originally patented, but those patents have expired. If the blocks fit together isnt that a physical object which can be tradmwarked?Ī trademark isn’t a physical object, so I’m not sure where you’re coming from here. However, hopefully the company will realize that actually competing in the marketplace isn’t such a bad thing sometimes.įiled Under: blocks, eu, lego, mega bloks, toys, trademark It’s quite likely that Lego will appeal this decision, as the company has quite the reputation for being overly aggressive when it comes to protecting its offerings. Despite losing in Canada, the company still pushed its trademark claims in Europe - but a European court has now sided with Mega Brands as well, in noting that no trademark should be allowed on the concept of interconnecting blocks. Lego, of course, decided that rather than compete on the merits, it would continue to try to avoid market competition through the use of trademark and copyright law. ![]() For years, Lego owned patents on its blocks, but those patents expired and, as has been known to happen, competitors entered the space. ![]() ![]() Thu, Nov 13th 2008 09:28am - Mike Masnickīack in 2005, we wrote about a Canadian Supreme Court decisions that cleared Montreal company Mega Brands from charges of trademark violations for creating Mega Bloks as a competitor to Lego’s well known interconnecting blocks. ![]()
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