Brik Wirros: Which side are you?

[IVhorseman]

I've never had my megabloks pieces break on me, but I've had hundreds of Lego's degrade on me and go from green to blue green, white to a peach'ish tan, and lastly, gray to a weird'ish gray.

Your Megablox aren't old enough and this just hasn't happened yet.

Also, that stuff washes off! just take a big old bucket, put some bleach and other cleaning solution stuff in there, and it looks good as new after a good bath!

[64mas]

I don't get what all the fuss is about when it comes to clone bricks. They are cheaper, easy to find, and you don't feel bad when you mod/paint/glue them for use as terrain, etc...

LEGOs(how do you actually write/type the plural of LEGO?) do have their benefits. the kits are better, have less POOP, and the quality is better. However, you end up paying for that quality.

Lego Clone
Pros: Quality Price
They're LEGO!! They can be modded w/o guilt of
defiling LEGOs

Cons: Price Quality

just my 2 cents

[tahthing]

the resone that happens is your not keeping them right, mega bloks is a more diluted ABS and so it doesn't discolour in light as much, I've never had a lego piece breck under normal conditions, fragil piece have broken when I've steped on them by accident, I've got some discoloured white but they can be usefull.

I've got one mega-bloks piece that was given to me by a friend, the piece is great in design and ide happyly buy a pack of 30 of them for £1 (its a small missile piece about 1x3).

mega-bloks have some nice piece designs but lego sets are more creative and mega-bloks bulk bricks are just standard.
if there was a mega-bloks version of brick-link i would buy some stuff from it.

[MasterEcabob]

I prefer LEGO to MegaKrap and their ilk, but they do make for awesome evil BrikWar factions.

[Cpt. Zipps]

Lego FTW but I do have a couple clones sets. I got the Mega Bloks as gifts and I won the BTR for free.

BTW the BTR chssis is REALLY good for making APCs because of all the room in it.

[Massam]

I chose both, just so the newbs to the forum can get some respect before we bash their mega-crap creations.

[james+burgundy]

Mike can you ban Gunney please please please please

[Rayhawk]

You want me to ban someone for taking the wrong position, opposing popular opinion, and trying to pick a fight? What do you think BrikWars is about exactly?


In olden times, Mega Bloks really were just counterfeit Lego. They copied the Lego catalog page for page and set for set, the pieces really didn't fit together (they still mostly don't, if you try and build anything large out of them), and they were unbelievably fragile (especially the minifigs, which would arrive with broken fingers and floppy hips before you even opened the box). Some of these things have improved over the years, but they started out as an extremely dishonest company abusing Lego's good name to sell innocent parents the shittiest possible products.

Last time I went on a big Mega Bloks buying spree (mostly for research purposes) was five or six years ago with the dragons, pirates, ninja turtles, and power rangers lines. It took some brute force (since the pieces didn't fit together), but I was in fact able to build the models in the instructions. Within an hour, they had popped back apart without me touching them, thanks to the internal stresses of pieces that were manufactured to the lowest possible standards.

So in fact, objectively speaking, based on my empirical observations in '03 and '04, Mega Bloks really did suck exactly as much as everyone says they do. It's POSSIBLE that they've gotten better since then, I haven't checked.

[Greenkey15]

I am mostly LEGO, but some of the old mecha sets from Mega Bloks had pieces I wish LEGO made. I use them sometimes, especially for guns. I still use their minifigs for target practice, though.

[Professor Fairfield]

....I swear..this is getting annoying by now. Really, Aint NO WAY Megabloks are NOT on par with lego's. Yea I've heard the stories, Megablok's material is cheaper, it breaks easier, blah blah blah.

I've never had my megabloks pieces break on me, but I've had hundreds of Lego's degrade on me and go from green to blue green, white to a peach'ish tan, and lastly, gray to a weird'ish gray.

I'unno about you, but that degrading/decomposing'WHATEVER IT IS' that the lego's suffer really ticks me off. Makes my walls look like someone shoved it in the dirt.

So mark me as a target, but me and me army are standing for Megabloks all the way.

My understanding is that Lego fans dislike Megabloks less because of the actual brick quality (whatever the hell it really is; I've never bought any), and more because of how they're used. They fit together like Legos; allegedly, but their pieces tend to be big and inflexible for anything other than the models for which they're intended. In short, they're almost more like Playmobil than Lego. That said, Megablox does have some badass and colorful minifigs, and can be useful if you want to stage a battle between one children's franchise and another.

Best Lock, meanwhile, they don't suffer from as many problems; some of their models are like MBs, but not all. The only problem is that they're not compatable with Legos, but there's one nice exception: weapons. I gave Johnny Thunder a submachine gun and am very happy for it.

So I will choose Option 2, and know this: I may always choose Legos, but I will beat the shit out of any raving, intolerant fanboy I see, even if his preferences are the same as mine, and that goes for any product, whether building blocks, video game consoles, cars, etc; you know why? Because I loathe monopoly, and fanboys perpetuate it. I'm glad that Lego has competitors and people who buy from them, and I'd welcome more competent competition, even if I never bought any of it, because that would keep the price of Legos reasonable.

So if any of you are d a p p e r enough for Lego that you're cool with letting them ass-snuggle you with high prices, that might seem like your problem alone, but when I suffer the results of the price gouging as a side effect, it becomes my problem to, and for causing it I will give you an even worse pain in the ass. Do not let that savagery scare you away from me, though. If I play a game with you, I will gladly channel that sadistic mentality into smearing the landscape with the blood of your brick armies, in true, gratuitous BW fashion.

Some of these things have improved over the years, but they started out as an extremely dishonest company abusing Lego's good name to sell innocent parents the shittiest possible products.

Is that really accurate? I never remember Megabloks referring to their products as Legos (If they had, they'd be sued to death); I think what you witnessed wasn't abuse of innocent parents, but rather idiot parents who took the abuse willingly to cut corners, or just without looking very closely. Of course, there were also idiot store clerks who labeled every construction brick toy as "Legos," (and idiot store clerks who did all sorts of other stupid shit, too, not all of it relevent to bricks; that position seems to attract a lot of idiots) compounding the problem.

Sadly, that's the price of fame. Just as Kleenex and Xerox have crossed over from brand names over to generalized commodity names, "Lego" has become potentially interchangable with "construction brick," and now the confusion has taken its toll. Ironically, I'm told that the products that really are counterfeit Legos (the ones from China that have the same logo as Legos; except with the word "BRICK") fit with real Legos just fine; and are cheaper to buy.

[Strana]

hah hah i say, if nothing else you get good prices on BULK bricks hence while i liked the megablocks when they were producing the military master modeler sets,plenty of basic briks which if lego makes a set thier might be a grand total of one brik in $40 and up sets.

[Professor Fairfield]

Filler bricks--that is, ones that you buy a bunch of for the less specialised roles that would be too expensive for Legos--are always nice; the only problem is knowing which fit, and which don't.

[IVhorseman]

jesus man there is no way I'm reading that.

Also, gunney didn't vote for Clone Brands when he made that post, or in the hours afterward.

I did

[Funky Weasel]

jesus man there is no way I'm reading that.

I know, fancy them expecting you to read stuff on a web forum.

Scandalous.

[En!gma]

I had only ever even THOUGHT about Mega Bloks, Bestlock etc. before Brickarms existed. Now that is does wellllll...