| Stumbled over a (German speaking) youtuber,
"Held der Steine" (Hero of the stones)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVtbNWH_9So Who reviews "Bricks" of all kinds including Lego. He consistently is annoyed by how expensive Lego is compared to everything else, with usual worse quality (in terms of design, fun to assemble, etc). If you can bear google translate or even speak German, he may be worth listening to. Anyway, got sucked into that and got my first "brick" set since around 25 years ago and it felt like Lego (as far as I could remember). Instructions, presentation, the stones, everything. I believe "Cobi" and "Bluebrixx" are often mentioned as good, affordable (seems about half price for similar set) and lego compatible. From what I understand the patent for the particular form factor of the bricks ran out, which is why there are a bunch of alternative now. I got that one: https://cobitoys.de/small-army-ww2/panzer-und-fahrzeuge/panz... I live in the UK, think I got it via amazon, so maybe more difficult for you Americans. |