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Re: Mega Bloks and Bandai Join Forces in Japan and Asia
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lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands
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Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:51:03 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Richard Marchetti wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Christopher Snead wrote:
> > The blocks don't stay together at all!
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> I really disagree with this, and it matters a lot when you made your
> purchase. I find MB quality to be quite good and MB purchases may actually be
> the bulk of my new purchases. I'm sure not buying too much junk like
> Galidork or Bionickles (although I have some of the latter).
Ugh. I have some of the former, and I am convinced that it is the harbinger
of The End Times. Absolutely awful.
Anyway, I naturally second your assertion re: improving MB quality. A recent
frenzy of brick-sorting has revealed to me that my not-terribly-small collection
of bricks is somewhat more than 80% clone bricks, with MB making up about 95% of
the clones. The most consistently disappointing bricks, in terms of
clutch-power, are the translucent elements from the mid nineties. Since that
time, there's been a steady, noticeable improvement in quality.
At this point someone will usually say "I built Set X and it fell apart under
its own weight, so I threw it out (or burned it, or smashed it, or fed it to a
dog, or whatever)". I assert that these people are either:
A: Exaggerating for rhetorical impact
B: Lying for rhetorical impact
C: Somehow in possession of a statistically unlikely number
of sub-par bricks (see assertion A, above)
D: Misremembering the facts of the episode (eg: "I dropped it, and it
didn't hold together")
Another version of this theme is to complain that the bricks grip too tightly!
So the problem is that the bricks don't hold together *AND* they don't come
apart. Amazing!
To me, the fairly obvious bottom line is that people don't like clone brands
because the clone brands aren't LEGO. But, as I've said before, we've already
passed the point where the clone brands are more true to the original LEGO
ideals than The Holy Brand itself. And we've already seen that LEGO doesn't
mind cloning its competitors, such as in the recent skatepark sets and the 8x8
plate.
Dave!
(preaching to the choir)
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