Dear sirs:

I am one of LEGO fan in Japan.

Thank you for manufacturing wonderful goods.

I wrote this mail because there was a wish about a certain incident.

There is comic called Gegege-no-kitarou very famous for Japan, and the characters called Medama-mo-Oyaji which appears.

The Hiroki Shirakawa made this character by LEGO Bricks.

Surprisingly, a battery is not used for this product, but it walks it using a motor instead as a dynamo.

This is the bipedal robot made from the smallest LEGO Bricks in the world.

"Hobby shop degila" planed to sell this product as a kit.

http://www.genesys-net.co.jp/digila/medama/kit/

http://www.genesys-net.co.jp/digila/medama/kit/walking.html

They got the license of copyright from Shigeru Mizuki, the author of Gegege-no-kitarou.

When they decided to sell by mail order by Web, they get the reservations of order over 700 sets!

But the LEGO Japan says them stopping this sales.

They got LEGO bricks from fair route.

They get the copyright permission from the author.

What problem is to sell this?

I very regret this.

When I asked the LEGO-JAPAN, they say that they cannot answer because they are discussing with LEGO head office now.

I request you that "Hobby shop degila" can sell Medama-mo-Oyaji.

If you cannot permit, please tell me the reason.

Sincerely yours,

Shigeru Makino

mailto: mac@line.to