got one of the last ones for christmas

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Just guessing the entire brand is a lego knockoff

Lem Jukes

I’m sorry but what kind of complaint is ‘too many colors’ when talking about Lego?

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BlueBrixx is a German company making “Lego compatible” brick toy sets. Looks like they aim for more adult oriented sets hence the Star Trek and Star gate licenses. They also seem to produce military sets which Lego usually avoids.

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Well that is a brand new sentence no one ever said before.

VindictiveJudge

They might be referring to the brightly colored structural pieces. I got a batmobile, for example, that has a lot of vibrant colors for internal pieces even though the exterior is entirely black and grey. The bright colors are so the instructions are more legible (you can see what was added more readily) and can be surprising when you first open a set, but they're fully covered in the final build and you would only know they were there if you built it yourself. The giant Imperial Star Destroyer is a great example of a model with a lot of internal color.

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Yes, me too, got the Defiant and the DS9 Station (with another mini-Defiant).

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They also do hilarious knockoffs of franchise they don't have the licence for. Like a pirate ship with black sails that is simply called N.P.B. (which stands for Not-Black-Pearl). The cool thing is the quality is comparable to Lego but the sets are more than half the price.

osaerisxero

I don't even know that I agree with that at this point. 5 years ago I would have maybe agreed but today they're right in line with what I would expect from a product whose quality didn't go down after inflation, since they didn't really raise prices after covid like everyone else.

I'll note though that I'm only talking about sets for the under 12 crowd, I haven't had occasion to buy any of the serous sets since the Tantive IV 20 years ago lol.

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yeah, that's exactly what I meant, maybe I'm just very autistic, but I payed for a gray set, so I want a gray set, yk

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So glad I could pick up some discounted stuff as well... Not in this picture: the Stargazer, which is gift wrapped and will be handed over to my son later today. These will serve as presents over the next year or two.

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Kind of, but it's actually good quality and a lot cheaper.

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Can you make a retro-emulator sleeper-PC out of it?

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...rivendell is a legimate masterpiece...

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...my wife is mortified when she sees what those beta magic cards we ebayed to make rent go for these days...

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Pieces that should have the same color are also very inconsistent nowadays, which is especially apparent on uniformly colored areas. Ther quality control is not what it used to be. Sets like the Fiat 500 had so many pieces that didn’t match that I gave them away because I didn’t want to display them.

I switched to other manufacturers which have problems as well, but at least they are priced much lower.

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Have you ever heard about Lego 60343?

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A "Bird of Prey" with 1500 pieces, in the blue week for 35 bucks will never be available again. Unfortunately, I found out about it too late.
A Romulan warbird would have also been nice. Maybe from Lego next, but then likely for 350 bucks.

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Thanks for the clarification. Purely based on the original comment, I had the impression that the pieces wouldn't fit together as well anymore or the designs would more easily fall apart.