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I understand it’s important to protect your brand identity but it’s even more sad that a toy company doesn’t understand the value of “just having a little fun”.
Corporations really seem to exist entirely to suck the joy out of life.
Edit: Yes, we agree that ACAB, and frankly they shouldn’t publicize enforcement information at all. This was intended to be a general statement on IP law rather than law enforcement.
The LEGO group has always been protective of their brand and nervous about being associated with potentially violent content, turning down a partnership with the Halo games because of that. For years, they didn't want to make grey bricks because they were afraid kids would use them to build tanks. All this to say, this seems pretty on brand for the LEGO group.
Which years were those? I remember the "Classic Space" sets going all the way back to the '70s had plenty of gray bricks.
Really early on, with the original castle sets, where all the wall pieces were yellow. I believe the space sets were the first grey bricks.