• ours@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Bootleg Lego are the saddest thing. They have cool designs but the pieces not being built with the same precision makes them a shore to build. Assembled pieces just don’t hold together and it becomes an unfun disaster.

    Some things just need that level of insane precision and consistency to work well and comes at a cost.

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      5 months ago

      That’s starting to not be true. Several of the brands out of China have better manufacturing quality than LEGO these days.

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        5 months ago

        I know we’re way off original topic, but do you have personal experience with the chinese brands? Any specifically you’d recommend checking out?

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      5 months ago

      I tried to give other brands a chance, primarily because Lego doesn’t dabble in war builds, but yeah I built a kit, picked it up to move it and half fell out because the bricks were not able to tightly clasp. I suppose it’s less of a problem if you glue, but notably different experiences indeed.

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        5 months ago

        My kid one a small set one. It was a cool Japanese anime robot but it was impossible to finish. The look of frustration and my own when I tried myself. I had to tell him to give up.