Hey everyone,
Just like to add my own 2 cents regarding this topic. It seems my very own experience with best-lock building sets seems to differ from many other members. I haven't owned any best-lock sets in probably 7-8 years but I really enjoy the sets that I own. My first experience with them was probably sometime in middle school, when my father bought some for me in China. The main appeal to me for Best-Lock was that they had modern military sets. You could buy tanks, apcs, battleships, cruisers, even a aircraft carrier! I've never seen any of these sets I saw in china available in America however, and the last time I went to TRU, the modern military kits were much more different and not as appealing as they used to be.
I loved that the old best lock sets I had were how you could build military vehicles using simple geometric shaped blocks. It was simple, but still really fun to put together. Sure, they had a lot of issues, but they were really fun to just play with. I never considered them a Lego bootleg, I just thought of them as toy tanks I got to build myself. I'm pretty out of the loop on best-lock now, but are the figure still total trash? I have a huge ziplock bag stuffed with them, they were so annoying to use for anything. The legs didn't have holes in them so if you wanted them to sit anywhere, you had to use the best-lock chairs which had a rim in the middle that wedged itself between the figures legs.
Here are a few pictures of my small dinky modified best-lock collection.
Sorry for the rant. I know Best-lock aren't the greatest toys, but they have a special place in my heart (and my shelf).