I've been trying to do something sneaky that my friends over at a Transformers website taught me.

trademark searches

You can often find the names of products long before their release because of the need to copyright the names.

Hasbro, the company that makes transformers has thousands of trademarks for all kinds of different toys.

But lego does not.

actually it may be because Lego in itself is apperently not the company filing for lego patents. If you do a search for lego on the patent website you will find little, but if you look at who files the patents you see a company called Kirkbi. When you search for Kirkbi you find many more things by lego, all their brand names are there, but sadly no specific sets.

I post this in hopes that maybe someone else can do some digging, even if all you find is a copyright on the word Tahu I would be happy.

cause I'm bored