I understand totally that this is predominantly a Lego forum and that this post will spark arguments, but I don't know who else to ask, heh.

First off, me. I'm a huge Lego fan (somewhere between a K- and A-FOL?) so my intention would never be to hurt the Lego group. That said, I also am somewhat of a bad entrepreuner in that I have tons of ideas but never pull through with them. I am a fan of Warhammer 40k, but the prices and shit quality have made me plan my own papergame in my head. The only thing missing is the figures.

I'd thought about doing it with Lego but then I couldn't do a nice printed rulebook with photos and such, and there wouldn't be my own figures to go along with the game. But then I happened upon a Click Brick set which was full of minifigs (about ten, I think, provided some much needed spare hands!) and the quality was stunning. Other than the word STAR on the studs I wouldn't have known they weren't Lego, honestly.

I'm not trying to advertise Click Brick though; basically I thought about starting this game using Lego-like minifigs... Ok, Lego clones.

My justification:

- I understand Lego do not hold the rights to their parts right now.

- Lego do not, nor have ever produced a tabletop role playing game to my knowledge.

- Lego do not produce military figures or extensive use of guns and such.

- Games Workshop (Warhammer) do not produce modular, posable, part-replacable figurines nor are they in the same scale as minifigs.

I have been playing around with Digital Designer a bit, and had some ideas:~

WIZARDS OF BATTLE with a basic guntruck

GREEN SOLDIERS OF SOME DESCRIPTION

Now, there is a point to this thread, and I could have probably saved a lot of time just asking it in the first place!

What I am wondering is if anyone has experience starting up a Lego clone.

What I wish there was is a bulk brick buying service. Contact a creator and say I want 1,000 green helmets, 500 heads, 2450 guns, etc, and they ship it and bam, you have the resources to start making sets and such.

I guess it's not going to be that simple.

Click Brick must get their bricks from somewhere, and judging by the STAR logo on the studs I am guessing they don't have them made specifically for them.

Hmm, I really don't know about these things. Basically I just wondered if anybody here, from a hobbyist perspective, has ever considered, or gone through with starting a Lego clone and can offer any suggestions or legalities and such. Hell, maybe Click Brick are in fact bootlegging, I really don't know. Considering they're on sale in big chain stores here (UK) I'd imagine that's not the case.

Well, has anyone ever done this and what were the results?

"Snipped"

guess you never heard of BrickLink, LEGO online PAB or BrickForge or BrickArms or BrickTW or Arealight or so on and so on.

Aye, but selling them on would be bootlegging.

Edit: oh, sorry, I see those are custom - cool! I'll check them out.

Edited July 18, 201113 yr by BURP Lover

And, of course, LEGO is making table-top roll playing games (Heroica)... four games so far), even if not to the caliber of Warhammer or DND. There's also "brickquest."

LEGO does own the rights to many of it's parts... the patents on basic bricks may have expired, but anything relatively new will still have patents.

I've been using LEGO to play DND with my son and his friends as opposed to "wasting" money on the DND figures they want you to buy, as well as the dungeon tile sets they sell.