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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Frank Filz wrote:
> There is a difference between those older sets and the current sets though.
> The older sets LOOK like a construction toy. The newer sets look like a
> plastic model, with a few studs thrown in. I'd also like to add that back
> then when I looked at those sets, I had not yet been exposed to the way
> Megabloks dramatically changes their minifig style every few years, and even
> year to year, there are far more changes than LEGO has year to year.
Ah--now I get it. And I guess it's true; a bunch of people in ot.clones have
lamented the over-specialization of elements in the Dragons line. Heck(1), I
myself have griped about the difficulty of LDraw-rendering all of those faux
wood-grain elements.
> So yes, I stand by my comments that the Megabloks of today totally
> disinterest me from a stylistic standpoint, and I think they are more
> juniorized than before (though granted, the sets back then did feature
> things like one piece buildings, so perhaps those were worse than today's
> sets).
I wasn't disagreeing with your reviews, by the way!
I maintain an odd fondness for the old 16x8x8 house-shell from the Western sets,
even though they're not widely useful for anything other than simple houses.
On the whole, I suppose that MegaBloks juniorization doesn't bother me as much
as LEGO's because MegaBloks has (to date, at least) continued to put out sets
that rely heavily on large numbers of basic bricks, whereas these types of
bricks became kind of rare in LEGO sets for a few years.
Dave!
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