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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Frank Filz writes:
> Mr L F Braun wrote:
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> > 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.
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> 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 I've looked at look good) and their Brick
> geometry is the same as LEGO bricks (as opposed to Best-Lock which uses
> a different brick height).
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 the water in terms of variety and availability of bulk tubs.
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
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| 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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| (...) 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)
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