stebain: Can you buy just a bloody box of assorted Lego anymore? It's always a theme or whatever, that I can find.

Yes. Christ, go to a Lego store and you can buy them by the cup/scoop and get whatever you want by weight.


CBS time... I put together the Maersk train, 1200 some pieces, right after Christmas. It was missing one of the axles... one of the very last parts to put on... damn. So I go online and fill out the form and they get one off to me, no sweat. The damn thing came just last Thursday, and I managed to lose the axle about 5 minutes after opening it. I've searched everywhere. God Farking Damnit!

Personally don't care.

Was around when LEGO popped up on the market and thought them interesting. As the years went by, I noticed the price increase followed by the concentration on themes and the marked increase in advertisement and fanatical followers.

When they were cheap, I considered them a good buy for kids, but as their popularity increased, naturally so did the cost. Competition in the market tends to drive down costs for the buyers but LEGO seems to prefer to fight any competitors rather than decrease the price of their products.

Now, years later, I'm actually getting a bit tired of the many commercials featuring little LEGO men, but, then again, I never was a huge fan of theirs. My thing as a kid was gluing together the many inexpensive plastic model kits of ships, fighter jets, tanks and cars -- most of which today are IMO, far too expensive to even bother with. (I still have a large scale model of the Gemini Space Capsule packed away somewhere.)

Erik_Emune: swahnhennessy: I don't care. As long as they're compatible, they can be LEGO or some Malaysian knock-off. Besides, I only buy used blocks for my daughters. Call me cheap, but have you seen the price of LEGO? Good god. Rather be cheap than a sucker.

Lego is manic about their product quality and tolerances, and it shows. The knock-offs aren't, and it shows, too. Quality isn't cheap.

THIS.

Friends don't let Friends buy crappy bricks.

Everything, EVERYTHING about LEGO bricks is better than any of their competitors. Hold a Megablock up next to a Lego block. Notice how the color of the LEGO block is deeper and richer, while the megablock color is pale and inconsistent across the piece. Now snap a few of each together. Notice how the LEGO brick holds solidly, while the Megablock moves and threatens to come apart.

There's no comparison at all. You buy cheap, you get cheap.

Hebalo: There's no comparison at all. You buy cheap, you get cheap.

I've never experienced better customer service. Anywhere.

My son constantly loses pieces of various sets. I go online and within days, the parts are shipped to our house. Four different times. I provide a credit card number, yet each time, their note says "we usually charge for this service, but we won't this time. have fun!"

Mr Rusty Shackleford: stebain: Can you buy just a bloody box of assorted Lego anymore? It's always a theme or whatever, that I can find.

Yes. Christ, go to a Lego store and you can buy them by the cup/scoop and get whatever you want by weight.


CBS time... I put together the Maersk train, 1200 some pieces, right after Christmas. It was missing one of the axles... one of the very last parts to put on... damn. So I go online and fill out the form and they get one off to me, no sweat. The damn thing came just last Thursday, and I managed to lose the axle about 5 minutes after opening it. I've searched everywhere. God Farking Damnit!

I'm not calling you a liar, but I've bought and built at least 150-200 sets in the last 5 years, and i've NEVER been missing a piece. Not one. Ever. A few times I thought I was missing something, but later found it near where i was building, or almost thorwn out a small piece that got caught in the polybags. A few times I've used the wrong color of something so it seemed like I was missing those.

But I've never had a set that missing a piece.