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Any word on badspot going with?
DarkMonkey:
Exactly. Lego can't do stuff about the bricks, but they have the license for the minifig. One idea was to make the players robots, then release a free minifig mod.
|nf|n|ty:
Actually, LEGO does own the brick shapes in 3d(have you seen any other non-LEGO game that had bricks in it?). As long as Badspot doesn't sell anything w/ the bricks or minifig he should be fine.
Grim Ant:
Lego doesn't own any rights to the lego bricks, their patent expired 20 years ago. Badspot can't use the minifig in blockland because lego owns the copyright to them.
|nf|n|ty:
Could you please tell me where it says Lego's patents expired 20 years ago? Because i just google searched for LEGO brick patents and found a nice case that was located in China in which LEGO won. But whatever... I have read a bit more and have noticed that only a few of LEGO's bricks patents have expired, so as long as Badspot uses just these he should be fine.
Also, do not forget the minifig. Sure it can be replaced, but then the game wouldn't have the same feel.
nige111:
How about stomping around as a child dropping bricks everywhere. XD