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?

  • AninjanameddaryllEnglish
    15·
    2 years ago

    I dunno, why does everyone blow their nose on a kleenex?

    Lego is eponymous for plastic building blocks. If you call the forum anything else, you aren’t going to be recognizable and easy to find.

    I mean, hell, there’s people that don’t even know there’s actual brands other than lego at all

    • Aurix@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      23·
      2 years ago

      That’s a problem in some ways. Lego alternatives are legal and simply competing products. Continuing to equal a whole product category to one brand is not helpful. It might have been a colloquial decision and be fine like you suggested. Unfortunately, Lego takes legal action against such attempts.

      I understand the intentional misnaming of competitor products as Legos (not “Lego” mind you) in this incident, but the lawyers advocated for a video takedown. And I feel this community could be threatened by this as well. https://www.lto.de/recht/hintergruende/h/held-der-steine-lego-abmahnung-gattungsbegriff-markenrecht/ Unfortunately it is in German, but it continues a very detailed lawyer’s perspective of what happened there.

      • Treczoks@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Lego alternatives are legal and simply competing products.

        Well, not all of them are. Some are just blatant rip-offs and copyright violations.