• KraeuterRoy@feddit.org
    13·
    2 days ago

    I hope you are excited for massively overpriced collectors sets with 40% of the expected minifigs missing and a bunch of lovely stickers to give you that premium experience.

    I expect this to go exactly like the recent Lord of the Rings sets.

  • CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
    203·
    2 days ago

    There already was brickbuild Star Trek stuff by Bluebrixx and it was better than any licensed stuff from Lego. Unfortunately, Lego apparently made a better offer in the last negotiations.

    Fuck Lego (the company. It’s evil).

      • CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
        173·
        2 days ago

        Aside the basic capitalist shit like premium prices for low quality products?

        Other companies make products and sell the, and to do that sustainable they have to sell stuff for money. They sometimes also have to protect their trademark with copyright laws and such.

        Lego however goes beyond that. Lego has in the past abused copyright and trademark law to bully smaller competitors, for example sue competitors for selling minifigures that do not look similar to Lego’s own, then had the german customs authority seize shipments to a store because that store has products by those competitors in stock even though the competitors already took out the minifigures for the european market. Also, Lego sued another, tiny store over it’s logo, because that store’s logo contained a brick (but was completely dissimilar to Lego’s own logo). And Lego always tries to publicly justify such behavior with ‘concerns for customers’ safety’ while buying their parts from the same Chinese factories as most of their competitors.

        I find that unethical enough to label them evil and not buy new Lego for my niece’s presents.

        • Spezi@feddit.org
          111·
          2 days ago

          They try to bankrupt small shop owners and producers by sueing them until they can’t financially recover, even if those shop owners would be in the right. And at the same time they don’t sue Schwarz-Group (Lidl) for doing the same stuff as the smaller shops, because Schwarz Lawyers could easily counter them and win.

          They also live with the constant fear, that someone will sue them to remove their trademark name, as it is too commonly used as a synonym to bricks. Thats why they even youtubers wrongly calling competitors products Lego.

      • far_university1990@reddthat.com
        131·
        2 days ago

        To add to other comment, lego also patent trolling. “Patent” on already common used brick like technic frame or chain. In court would never fo through, but small shop have no money for court and seized shipment harm cashflow. Have to design multipart frame or give you chain in piece out of fear that lego bully them.

        And then they call “market leader in quality”, charging most by HUGE distance. Absolute joke, white brick in wall has 5-8 shade of white, solid green car look like faded camo, see lime and magenta and azure through gap in star destroyer, ferrari 458 has rally suspension, huge hole and entire body flex when you pick up wrong, you buy hundred € UCS set and “collector plaque” is cheap sticker.

  • Asetru@feddit.org
    10·
    2 days ago

    The bluebrixx models, especially the later waves, were perfect. My son recently built the USS Stargazer and it’s terrific. I can’t imagine Lego delivering the same quality considering what they shipped over the last few years. It’s a shame. Would have loved to get my hands on some more bb sets.

  • shyguyblue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    I can finally get rid of my Mega Bloks Enterprise D.

    I could sometimes use real Legos with it, but quality control doesn’t/ didn’t seem to be a priority for Mega Bloks…

    • Windex007@lemmy.world
      10·
      2 days ago

      It’s been 30 years since I used mega blocks, but damn they sucked.

      I’ve always wondered if it was QC, or if there was some material properties of Lego that made them so much better? Like can they use tighter tolerances because of better plasticity/flexibility of their material?

      • magnetosphere@fedia.io
        31·
        2 days ago

        I think you’re right about the material properties. I read somewhere that Lego is really finicky about the specific “recipe” for their plastic bricks, and yes, as a result they can specify higher tolerances.

        • Spezi@feddit.org
          4·
          2 days ago

          Lego got worse and worse over the years. Nowadays one can be happy if the colors on the bricks have the same shade. I have models like the Fiat 500 where tons of bricks with the same color have different shades.

          There are tons of manufacturers with better quality, like Mould King. And even the cheaper ones like Blue Brixx got pretty close. As long as you don’t pick the cheapest chinese clones.

    • Asetru@feddit.org
      2·
      22 hours ago

      There were huge enterprise sets. They were terrific. No need to pay ten times as much for the inferior Lego quality…

  • magnetosphere@fedia.io
    2·
    2 days ago

    I want a USS Reliant, or just a generic Miranda class. That’s one of my favorite starship designs of all time.