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  worrying trend
 
I'm worried. I got a look at a new bucket of Mega Bloks in pastel--and it happened to be open, so I played with a few of the bloc^Hks. They stay together remarkably well, and actually look pretty uniform in colour. On the other hand, the price of (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
 
  Re: worrying trend
 
(...) It doesn't worry me if they can get their quality up to anything close to LEGO bricks. We do need a serious competitor, and Ritvik is probably in the best position to be that competitor. They seem to have a decent design staff (the set designs (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
 
  Re: worrying trend
 
(...) Some of the Mega Bloks sets I've seen have seriously appealed to be as sets. I would say that their design team is producing sets superior to most of LEGO's current offerings except it terms of brick quality. Mega Bloks also blows LEGO out of (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
 
  Re: worrying trend
 
(...) Which I think is deliberate, given that the themes are similar! Indeed some the peices looked the same as TLG officals. Alex (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
 
  Re: worrying trend
 
Check out MegaBloks new monster truck and tank offerings -- I think they are way cool! And I can't fail to mention the flourescent colors bucket... I have mentioned these things here before, but I am not sure anyone noticed. -- Richard (25 years ago, 21-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)

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