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Thank you, that is a sad story. And well buried - hard to Google, and I never came across this even when they were a client of mine.
by djhn 7y ago
Thank you, that is a sad story. And well buried - hard to Google, and I never came across this even when they were a client of mine.
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoIIRC Lego were originally intending to produce something entirely different with their newly acquired injection moulding machine. Then they discovered the successful bricks being sold by Hilary Page, pivoted into counterfeiting, and produced an identical rip off of product, packaging, marketing, and branding: http://hilarypagetoys.com/Images/articlestock/article875_Image_Lego%20copies%20of%20Kiddicraft%20Elements.jpg http://hilarypagetoys.com/Images/articlestock/article875_Ima... Pretty sure there's a little more of the tale on the site. I have a bit of a thing against Lego's popularity given how litigious they are, and how they themselves got started.