Why are they like Nintendo when they could be like Sega? Embrace your community where they are.
1: Never, ever, sell modified Lego bricks: https://www.brickfanatics.com/lego-wins-court-case-against-c...
Also, they don’t tend to go after fan-made things like this, based on some googling they typically throw the book at counterfeit producers who are eating into their profits.
That's where Nintendo is fundamentaly different.
Also don’t forget that Sega was “originally an importer of coin-operated arcade games to Japan and manufacturer of slot machines and jukeboxes”
Sega was mostly into normal arcade games, and Sammy baught them for their expertise to improve Sammy's much more profitable gambling machines. It's Sammy's CEO that took the lead, and Sonic and console games became a mere side business.
They just won the market because historically they reused existing locking bricks concept from a company called Kiddicraft, found a way to make it more lockable... and patent it before the original company and other companies could implement it.
We can say that they became famous half fir engineering reason, and half from their legal department...
In the casinos?