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Space Legos!

Posted by michael on from the space-station-on-the-cheap dept.

mfarver writes "The Air Force is seeking research proposals for Space Legos. Now you can have your childhood fantasies of playing with blocks and getting paid for it. Actually, its not a bad concept, standarized components that can be "plugged" together in space for different functions."

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  1. Lego, no Legos! by psyconaut · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The name of the product is Lego. The plural is Lego. Only Americans seem to have this problem of pluralisation! Grrrrrrrr!

    -psy

    1. Re: Lego, no Legos! by Corvus9 · · Score: 0, Redundant
      The name of the product is Lego. The plural is Lego.
      Incorrect. The name of the company is LEGO. According to the company web site, the name is always capitalized and is never spelled "Lego". If there were more than one company named Lego you could plausibly call them Legos, but there are not.

      The LEGO company sells many products, including Creator, Designer, and Technic, which all include LEGO-brand blocks or bricks. They also sell products like Clickit and Bionicle, which do not contain bricks. There is at least one other company that sells toy bricks with are compatible with LEGO bricks. LEGO should not be considered synonymous with their toy brick products.