If you've always bought your kids proper Lego sets, don't ruin it by buying copycat stuff. Your kids will hate you for it lol.
As a kid, I remember once mixing up my Lego with Megablocks and it bugged the hell out of me from then on because the colour and plastic were different.
doggboy10
2 Feb 167#9
quite a large amount of brand snobbery kicking about in here.
£1 for a large amount of compatible blocks is a great great price and I guarantee you that the vast majority of bricks and children playing with them have no problem interacting with their lego counterparts.
Lego is one toy that manages to successfully combine educational properties and fun yet the pricing is ridiculous and unjustified.
fatdeeman
2 Feb 164#29
Cold. One of my peasant relatives bought some of this hideous stuff for my son at Christmas. After he recovered from being violently sick he slapped me and his mother and spat in our faces. We pleaded with him to at least give it a try as it wasn't his aunties fault that she's poor and can't afford lego.
He emptied the box out and a selection of razor sharp and toxic shards fell onto the floor. Despite his best efforts the pieces would not fit together and he sliced two of his fingers off In the process. The half built model then exploded and sent brittle plastic shrapnel flying everywhere, blinding my poor son in the process. And it's a small mercy that he was blinded as some of the bricks landed in his box of real lego, infecting it like a zombie plague and instantly rendering it both useless and valueless.
If you buy this for your kids it's tantamount to child abuse!!
Yas
2 Feb 164#11
Not really, just experience. I'm an adult and I've got Lego from my childhood which is still usable - we're talking standard and technical Lego from 30 odd years ago. This copy-cat stuff doesn't last. I've bought before for my kids and after a few years it fades and goes soft. You really are better off buying a proper set.
I suppose this is a good introduction set. But if your kids want more, throw it away and buy the real stuff!
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chellis
1 Feb 162#1
I've used these in the past and surprisingly they are really good and also compatible with Lego. if people haven't got Lego money to spend then they are worth a try
doggboy10
1 Feb 162#2
there are numerous websites dedicated to designs for use with random lego/other brand blocks.
these blocks would be ideal to use in conjunction with the above.
my lad would love these but no b&m near here.
extranormal
1 Feb 16#3
Are these like the packs by "M.Y" which mostly 1x1 bricks or is there a good mix of sizes?
118luke
1 Feb 168#4
If you've always bought your kids proper Lego sets, don't ruin it by buying copycat stuff. Your kids will hate you for it lol.
As a kid, I remember once mixing up my Lego with Megablocks and it bugged the hell out of me from then on because the colour and plastic were different.
lizardsnoop to 118luke
2 Feb 161#6
if people buy fake for my kids as presents. I give them away as I cannot be doing with this imitation rubbish. eBay is full of it mixed in with the genuine lego trying to con others. the word lego should not even be in the title on here.
lizardsnoop to 118luke
2 Feb 161#7
no one can convince me it is any good and my friends kids have had a go at their parents for buying it them.
fatdeeman to 118luke
2 Feb 16#24
Not all kids are brand obsessed snobs with OCD.
Not all bricks are made equal, some is poor and some is very good but most kids will not differentiate between lego and decent clones unless they are TAUGHT to.
sradmad
1 Feb 16#5
good find op,heat
aland163
2 Feb 16#8
I bought some of the fake Lego figures off eBay recently. £3.15 for 20 from China. There surprisingly not bad at all, I think we had 2 out of the lot where the arms kept falling off.
Worth a pop I'd say.
doggboy10
2 Feb 167#9
quite a large amount of brand snobbery kicking about in here.
£1 for a large amount of compatible blocks is a great great price and I guarantee you that the vast majority of bricks and children playing with them have no problem interacting with their lego counterparts.
Lego is one toy that manages to successfully combine educational properties and fun yet the pricing is ridiculous and unjustified.
turbo_c to doggboy10
2 Feb 16#21
You say that and in principle I would completely agree. After all how hard can it be to replicate a plastic brick? After buying and testing some of the knock offs, you quickly realise that Lego is worth the premium. The frustration of bricks not fitting together completely or falling apart too easily!
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As a kid, I remember once mixing up my Lego with Megablocks and it bugged the hell out of me from then on because the colour and plastic were different.
£1 for a large amount of compatible blocks is a great great price and I guarantee you that the vast majority of bricks and children playing with them have no problem interacting with their lego counterparts.
Lego is one toy that manages to successfully combine educational properties and fun yet the pricing is ridiculous and unjustified.
He emptied the box out and a selection of razor sharp and toxic shards fell onto the floor. Despite his best efforts the pieces would not fit together and he sliced two of his fingers off In the process. The half built model then exploded and sent brittle plastic shrapnel flying everywhere, blinding my poor son in the process. And it's a small mercy that he was blinded as some of the bricks landed in his box of real lego, infecting it like a zombie plague and instantly rendering it both useless and valueless.
If you buy this for your kids it's tantamount to child abuse!!
I suppose this is a good introduction set. But if your kids want more, throw it away and buy the real stuff!
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these blocks would be ideal to use in conjunction with the above.
my lad would love these but no b&m near here.
As a kid, I remember once mixing up my Lego with Megablocks and it bugged the hell out of me from then on because the colour and plastic were different.
Not all bricks are made equal, some is poor and some is very good but most kids will not differentiate between lego and decent clones unless they are TAUGHT to.
Worth a pop I'd say.
£1 for a large amount of compatible blocks is a great great price and I guarantee you that the vast majority of bricks and children playing with them have no problem interacting with their lego counterparts.
Lego is one toy that manages to successfully combine educational properties and fun yet the pricing is ridiculous and unjustified.