With more and more alternatives appearing to Lego which also increase in variety and even surpass at times Lego quality, why focus just on this company for a brick building community? I for example have been badly burned by Lego’s handling of the Mindstorms brand and there are more compatibility broken product lines from Lego.

Is posting other brands alright here? Will it lead to unpleasant conflicts from Lego, if their brand name is used?

  • splendid@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    Why are you opposed to offbrand bricks? The way I look at it the patents are expired and the purpose of patents is to enable a short term monopoly to create a profit motive for innovation. But after the patents expire then the invention belongs to everyone to build upon.

    I dislike 1:1 copies of Lego sets. But copying the bricks is fine with me- and actually a good thing long term I think.

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      1 year ago

      1:1 copies are not fine by me, because it is just straight up product piracy. Very hard so have sympathy for that.