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chhxdjsjtoday at 12:36 AM4 repliesview on HN

A reminder that danish company LEGO took the concept from a british psychologist who later committed suicide in the 1950s due to financial issues, and they only later paid out his descendants for rights to the product in the 1980’s in order to legitimise their ability to sue other companies making lego-like products.


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jacquesmtoday at 1:01 AM

And paid them a pittance.

culitoday at 2:21 AM

And now they're upset at lepin bricks because modern lepin bricks have superceded LEGO in quality AND price

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yhhbbkkhhtoday at 1:34 AM

…what “idea”?

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decrementaltoday at 1:27 AM

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