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[–] Kvoth 37 points 2 weeks ago (17 children)

To be fair to Lego, which I agree is crazy expensive, they have tighter tolerances in flaws than NASA does. I work in manufacturing, through a different type, and tolerances that tight mean a huge amount of your production becomes scrap.

You could discuss the whether perfectionism is worth the waste, and that's a valid point, but Lego is at least delivering a solid product

[–] hikaru755 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Except there are competitors by now with equally good tolerances and overall part quality that still cost half as much, so that can't really be the reason

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I guess I've been out of it too long - I've always found knockoff brands just don't have the same precision and quality.

[–] hikaru755 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

To be fair, it's still hit or miss, you need to do a little research to know what you're getting, but it has gotten sooo much better in the last couple of years. At this point, any brand that uses pieces made by gobricks is going to give you excellent piece quality rivaling or even surpassing that of Lego in some aspects. My recommendations if you want to check it out are Pantasy and Funwhole, both make great original sets with high quality prints, the latter even with fully integrated light kits. Those are not the only options, but the best ones at the moment in my opinion

Edit to add: as said a lot has happened just in the last few years, so to get a good picture of the current quality landscape, even with the brands I mentioned it's a good idea to stick to their newer sets for now, since you might still get earlier generations of bricks that are not quite as good with the older models that have been sitting on shelves for some time

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you for the really informative comment. I'll keep that in mind when I have some money to spend :-)

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