Super Blox are liars!

[benhead]

Decided to try out the super blox(now with the quality gaurantee!)There sets look like early lego stuff,they make the sets lego won`t(military),the price is usually half as much.There are some cool pieces!

Now the bad.I had a difficult time assembling the missle truck set that I bought this morning.Pieces do not stick or stay together!The instructions were hard to follow,who ever designed this set has never built anything before-the worst building techniques that I have ever seen!This person does`nt know how to offset the plates to maximize its overall strength,twice there are a couple steps where single stud bricks are connected but serve no purpose,they instead make it weak.

So I pretty much got this for the mini guns.

Now I know NOT to buy megablocks or superblox,the price is great but the quality is so bad its not worth the red face/finger blisters from how hard I have to squeeze the pieces together to make them stay put.

[Sisco]

Sadly, this is true of most clone brands. No one can match up to Lego's patented and effective tube system. Sorry for your bad experience, but this is a lesson often learned the hard way.

[Brickdoctor]

Sadly, this is true of most clone brands. No one can match up to Lego's patented and effective tube system. Sorry for your bad experience, but this is a lesson often learned the hard way.

What's sad is that the patent on TLG's bricks isn't even valid in most countries anymore. Companies are free to use the design (like MegaBloks does, minus the logos and stuff like that, of course), but they skimp on plastic and mold quality which is where the product truly fails.

[Big Cam]

Don't take this the wrong way, as its jus2 an expression, I'm certainly not calling you stupid.

The saying goes: Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer.

I think the way this correlates is, you kind of should have expected this. You knew they were a knock off and usually when something is half as expensive, its only half a good.

I'm glad you got some pieces you like though, at least it wasn't a total loss.

This also reminds me of a good quote from the movie Tommy Boy.

A guarantee is only as good as the company that writes it. If you want I can take a dump in a box and slap a guarantee on it, and all you've got is a guaranteed piece of crap.

I para phased a little.

[mikey]

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Now the bad.

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Sorry to reiterate BigCam's post, but with a name like 'Super Blox' did you really expect them to be super?

[LEGO Guy Bri]

More proof you can't trust anything that has the prefix of mega, super, etc or anything from China or Korea... Except for 07'+ Hyundai's

[Peppermint_M]

The more generic (Super, Toy, Brick, all popular words to use in names) are never very good. These clones are low production cost, low quality.

You are better off going for Cobi or Oxford if you want military themes. Best Lock is ok, but substandard quality isn't worth going for.

[Runamuck]

I think I might have seen these Super Blox in local book stores. They actually have dioramas with their military sets in the stores. They actually look a bit impressive in terms of set size for a clone brand. On the other hand I think that they have some really ugly figures like most clone brands actually. I can't take them seriously (even more than your average clone brand) after I saw a set that looked like a weaponized version of Donald Duck's car.

Edit: Minor misunderstanding here, the clone bricks I'm talking about are made by a company called Cobi, my opinions about them are still the same though. They also have a website in Danish apparently http://www.cobi-klodser.dk/shop/frontpage.html

Edited January 24, 2011 by Runamuck

[peterab]

What's sad is that the patent on TLG's bricks isn't even valid in most countries anymore. Companies are free to use the design (like MegaBloks does, minus the logos and stuff like that, of course), but they skimp on plastic and mold quality which is where the product truly fails.

In a discussion with The LEGO Community Overseer for the Australian and US region, Jim Foulds we discussed the clone brands. I dismissed them as inferior quality and his reply was interesting. He asked how long since I'd seen them, and that some were becoming quite good. He also said it took many years for LEGO to achieve their quality and they see it as a huge competitive advantage, so they avoid public discussions on how they've achieved it. In fact most parts of the company won't correct false stories in the AFOL world because although most AFOLs only speculate about production issues because they are interested to know as much as they can about the inner workings of LEGO it can act as a great misinformation source for competitors.

Anyway the short version is many of the clone brands probably don't choose to create inferior products, they just do the best they can. It's not necessarily about creating a cheaper product, just the inability to create one of the same quality standards as LEGO.

I have some of the pre ABS Lego bricks from the sixties, and they are pretty inferior, they dont hold their shape well and are hard to click together solidly, and even harder to get apart. Most clone brands have probably had to deal with similar issues while competing with TLG, which can't be an easy thing.

[BasOne]

Don't take this the wrong way, as its jus2 an expression, I'm certainly not calling you stupid.

The saying goes: Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer.

Wasn't the saying: There are no stupid questions, just stupid people?