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« Reply #50 on: Mon, 07 November 2011, 01:09:49 »
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.... changes to the original design (for known reasons).....


mmhh, did i miss something but the reasons are not known to me.

unfortunately i have to say that the new designs are IMO not good. i hope you will find a way to revert to the original ones. in other words, i would like to see the proper lego-head design (1 knob on the top) back again - not these 'horns'

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« Reply #51 on: Mon, 07 November 2011, 01:12:13 »
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« Reply #52 on: Mon, 07 November 2011, 01:41:34 »
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mmhh, did i miss something but the reasons are not known to me.

unfortunately i have to say that the new designs are IMO not good. i hope you will find a way to revert to the original ones. in other words, i would like to see the proper lego-head design (1 knob on the top) back again - not these 'horns'

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SP is starting to get iffy on doing copyrighted(is that how you say it?) material.

those are lego heads, so chances are.. they are a no go.

personally, if he got rid of the top part (which looks more like bunny ears to me) they would look a ton better.


cactux, were you told to take down the prototype pictures because of that? or did you do it yourself?
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« Reply #53 on: Mon, 07 November 2011, 02:12:05 »
Wait... what the hell happened to the Lego Heads? They have gone from being the actual heads to being the faces printed onto regular lego blocks. This is a travesty.
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« Reply #54 on: Mon, 07 November 2011, 02:34:49 »
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Wait... what the hell happened to the Lego Heads? They have gone from being the actual heads to being the faces printed onto regular lego blocks. This is a travesty.
Using the actual design will create some copy right issues
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« Reply #55 on: Mon, 07 November 2011, 02:37:35 »
Have you actually CHECKED if there are copyright issues? Using a blank assumption is sort of an odd way to be ambitious.
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« Reply #56 on: Mon, 07 November 2011, 02:39:42 »
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SP is starting to get iffy on doing copyrighted(is that how you say it?) material.

those are lego heads, so chances are.. they are a no go.

personally, if he got rid of the top part (which looks more like bunny ears to me) they would look a ton better.


cactux, were you told to take down the prototype pictures because of that? or did you do it yourself?

Let say that they are not very open, regarding this GB :-(
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« Reply #57 on: Mon, 07 November 2011, 02:42:16 »
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Let say that they are not very open, regarding this GB :-(

Melissa is actually pretty understanding. I have spent the last few weeks working with her on copyright issues and if you can present proof that the physical image of a Lego head is not copyrighted then you are fine. It is incredibly simple to present a set of images to her to even test the waters with a design rather than falling back on something that looks even more botched than the featureless TL key.
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« Reply #58 on: Mon, 07 November 2011, 09:22:15 »
i actually dont see any issues regarding copyright.
your not copying Lego pieces or their logo.
its like saying you cant sell pictures of lego due to copyright issues....
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« Reply #59 on: Mon, 07 November 2011, 09:48:35 »
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i actually dont see any issues regarding copyright.
your not copying Lego pieces or their logo.
its like saying you cant sell pictures of lego due to copyright issues....

I'm pretty sure, copyright would protect the "idea"/design of lego and not just the plastic bricks.

The thing is if we used the design that looked very like lego, It could very easily be prossecuted by Lego. Signature Plastic could get in a lot of trouble. It's a risk they are not willing to take. And frankly we don't want them to get in trouble as well. They are the only people doing doubleshot keycaps. It's best to avoid these issues, since I want someone to be able to make my keycaps. Hence why i've been cranking out a lot of different designs to avoid using the original lego look. If you've got ideas on what we can do please contribute.
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« Reply #60 on: Mon, 07 November 2011, 12:02:46 »
all of the original Lego copyrights expired a few years ago, which is why you see all knock of brands selling the same these days. So some of those keys might fall into the same category...although the newer ones like skull likely do not.
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« Reply #61 on: Mon, 07 November 2011, 12:36:37 »
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all of the original Lego copyrights expired a few years ago, which is why you see all knock of brands selling the same these days. So some of those keys might fall into the same category...although the newer ones like skull likely do not.

Really? Thats interesting. If someone can verify this. I'm pretty sure Cactux will do the original designs we had.
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« Reply #62 on: Mon, 07 November 2011, 14:03:11 »
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Really? Thats interesting. If someone can verify this. I'm pretty sure Cactux will do the original designs we had.
A couple links:
http://www.cpaglobal.com/newlegalreview/widgets/notes_quotes/more/3123/patents_that_changed_the_world_lego
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_LEGO_Group

I think though that most, if not all of the ideas on the first page are from kits newer than 1988 and likely have new patents/copyrights in place for them. My guess though is that SP won't do these unless Lego themselves says its ok :-(
Maybe ripster should email Lego and ask using his massive collection?
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« Reply #63 on: Mon, 07 November 2011, 14:34:08 »
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A couple links:
http://www.cpaglobal.com/newlegalreview/widgets/notes_quotes/more/3123/patents_that_changed_the_world_lego
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_LEGO_Group

I think though that most, if not all of the ideas on the first page are from kits newer than 1988 and likely have new patents/copyrights in place for them. My guess though is that SP won't do these unless Lego themselves says its ok :-(
Maybe ripster should email Lego and ask using his massive collection?

I did a bit of reading along this. We really need someone who knows how the law works. But from my understanding at the moment, is that their copyrights expired. Therefore anyone can make Lego-like stuff and make them compatible with their blocks. However Lego and their minifigs are lego trademarks. So as long as we don't market them as lego, we should be fine?
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« Reply #64 on: Mon, 07 November 2011, 14:36:59 »
Not really feeling the new head design but the pirate one is still pretty awesome
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« Reply #65 on: Mon, 07 November 2011, 14:45:57 »
Cool = Officer Barbrady?

I have a good friend that is a patent lawyer. She'll know the answer.
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« Reply #66 on: Mon, 07 November 2011, 15:12:06 »
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I have a good friend that is a patent lawyer. She'll know the answer.

Could you ask please? It would be nice to know.

Cos if its 100% not illegal, I'd go back to the single peg design.
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« Reply #67 on: Mon, 07 November 2011, 15:12:51 »
Single peg design <3
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« Reply #68 on: Tue, 08 November 2011, 02:26:07 »
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A couple links:
http://www.cpaglobal.com/newlegalreview/widgets/notes_quotes/more/3123/patents_that_changed_the_world_lego
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_LEGO_Group

I think though that most, if not all of the ideas on the first page are from kits newer than 1988 and likely have new patents/copyrights in place for them. My guess though is that SP won't do these unless Lego themselves says its ok :-(
Maybe ripster should email Lego and ask using his massive collection?


Thanks a lot for such valuable information. I will check with SP and some other sources, and if everthing is cool I will put back the original designes :-)
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« Reply #69 on: Mon, 14 November 2011, 00:06:50 »
would love to have them all. They all look great!
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« Reply #70 on: Mon, 14 November 2011, 22:31:24 »
I love them all, but I'm dying to get my hands on a pirate one.
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« Reply #71 on: Tue, 15 November 2011, 02:07:06 »
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Thanks a lot for such valuable information. I will check with SP and some other sources, and if everthing is cool I will put back the original designes :-)

Any update on this?

Reverting to the old design or you go ahead with the 2 nubs?

I will get some anyway but I hope for the proper Lego head.
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« Reply #72 on: Tue, 15 November 2011, 02:09:50 »
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Any update on this?

Reverting to the old design or you go ahead with the 2 nubs?

I will get some anyway but I hope for the proper Lego head.
Nothing concret yet. I still working on it
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« Reply #73 on: Tue, 15 November 2011, 02:16:08 »
If we can't get actual Lego heads... Can we just go nub less? They look too much like horns/bunny ears lol
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« Reply #74 on: Tue, 15 November 2011, 02:18:34 »
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If we can't get actual Lego heads... Can we just go nub less? They look too much like horns/bunny ears lol
Sure we can , you guys will decide wich will be the right design. BTW is a brick head ;-)
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« Reply #75 on: Tue, 15 November 2011, 05:20:25 »
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Sure we can , you guys will decide wich will be the right design. BTW is a brick head ;-)
If we get to do the head with a nob, it should be nobhead.
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« Reply #76 on: Thu, 17 November 2011, 00:40:53 »
Fist of all guys I apologize guys, for not posting in a while, but I did not have anything importatn to share with all of you. I sent a letter to Lego several days ago  requesting there blessing and I have not recived any replay from them :sleep: . So I guess we can not wait to much longer and we need to either move on with the actual design or maybe make some slight modifications to this design. I know that some of you will like to see the first original design in place, but without lego blessing I can not move forward.
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« Reply #77 on: Thu, 17 November 2011, 01:38:52 »
pirate, cool, or gentleman
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« Reply #78 on: Mon, 28 November 2011, 12:10:22 »
R.I.P Lego heads
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« Reply #79 on: Thu, 01 December 2011, 02:44:35 »
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**** lawyers.

**** interest checks.

Real Geeks just do mods.
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« Reply #80 on: Sat, 03 December 2011, 21:42:05 »
can i order? is it still available?
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« Reply #81 on: Sat, 03 December 2011, 22:08:29 »
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can i order? is it still available?

Not yet available. Keep your eye out for when it does.
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« Reply #82 on: Sun, 04 December 2011, 01:00:22 »
Ill take one of each! :D
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« Reply #83 on: Tue, 10 January 2012, 17:24:13 »
Done survey. Looking forward to them :)
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« Reply #84 on: Wed, 11 January 2012, 01:03:57 »
Definitely "cool." :cool:
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« Reply #85 on: Sun, 22 January 2012, 03:17:20 »
Just did the survey!
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« Reply #86 on: Mon, 23 January 2012, 17:30:32 »
Cool idea - are you going to ship those outside of the states as well?
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« Reply #87 on: Sun, 29 January 2012, 11:03:36 »
im in for 4 of the designs
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« Reply #88 on: Fri, 10 February 2012, 23:47:16 »
done the survey.. looking forward!
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« Reply #89 on: Fri, 17 February 2012, 13:38:52 »
Survey done, someone at work saw the pics over my shoulder so definitely an attention grabber.
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« Reply #90 on: Thu, 01 March 2012, 02:39:49 »
Survey filled. =P
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« Reply #91 on: Thu, 01 March 2012, 02:54:14 »
guys I will reactivate this thread.  Sorry for the delay but I had been very busy at work. I will post the results of the survey during the weekend
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« Reply #92 on: Thu, 01 March 2012, 04:14:19 »
yay! Ive been waiting for you/this.
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« Reply #93 on: Thu, 01 March 2012, 10:04:28 »
Survey filled.

Liking that skeleton.
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« Reply #94 on: Thu, 08 March 2012, 03:52:34 »
Survey filled.

They're all so fun!
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« Reply #95 on: Thu, 08 March 2012, 04:04:49 »
Thank you I am closing the survey and moving to the real stuff
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« Reply #96 on: Thu, 08 March 2012, 06:06:30 »
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Thank you I am closing the survey and moving to the real stuff

Finally!
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« Reply #97 on: Thu, 08 March 2012, 15:02:52 »
survey filled....

the surprise one is very cool :-)
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« Reply #98 on: Sat, 10 March 2012, 03:38:11 »
And the winner is COOL. Please take a look at the OP for the latest updates regarding this GB
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« Reply #99 on: Sat, 10 March 2012, 03:46:21 »
will this GB be available to the people that didnt fill out the survey?
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