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"Dave Schuler" <orrex@excite.com> wrote in message
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> In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Tim Courtney writes:
> Time will tell, I suppose. For my money, the "inferior quality" • argument is
> rapidly becoming obsolete, but I can understand that those with a • preference
> for pure Lego still will not be satisfied in this regard.
Yep, it'll always be LEGO for me.
> > And another thing, MegaBloks is NOT Lego - its not the toy I grew up with • and
> > fell in love with, and its not the toy with the biggest and richest • history.
>
> Undeniably! Lego wasn't voted Toy of the Millennium by accident!
Exactly.
> I don't know if it's shameless, any more than Puffs is a shameless • ripoff of
> Kleenex.
BAD analogy. We're talking a hygeine product, which is necessary, versus an
extra, specialty toy for kids. Think of something original, there's plenty
of ideas out there to be discovered. Don't ride someone else's success
shamelessly. To me, clone brands reak of pathetic wannabe's who aren't good
enough to come up with something on their own.
> I also don't know how to assess Ritvik's quality commitment in any
> meaningful way, since they have certainly been steadily improving their
> product's quality.
The MegaBloks I've seen and played with are terrible at best. The minifigs
are a joke too.
> > I dismiss all clones cause its not Lego.
>
> Hypothetically, then, would you reject a clone brand even if it yielded • a
> demonstrably better product than Lego? That would be interesting to me.
Most likely. Look at Lionel/American Flyer purists...sure they seem silly
to outsiders, but its not silly to them.
> Yeah, that is an unfortunate and hard-to-defeat dilution of brand name.
> Retail outlets don't help much when they stack MegaBloks on the shelf • right
> next to Lego sets (though TRU's around here put MegaBloks around the
corner).
Yeah. They try hard to keep up their identity. There was a blurb in
LEGOLife instructing their employees about referring to the brand name in
certain ways (very similar to how they outline it on Fair Play). Hopefully
for them they can get a brand recognition back. I cringe when my best
friend's mom buys MegaBloks for her younger children saying, 'they're all
Legos.'
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