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Why specifically a Lego branded community? (self.lego)

submitted 1 year ago by Aurix to c/lego

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With more and more alternatives appearing to Lego which also increase in variety and even surpass at times Lego quality, why focus just on this company for a brick building community? I for example have been badly burned by Lego's handling of the Mindstorms brand and there are more compatibility broken product lines from Lego.

Is posting other brands alright here? Will it lead to unpleasant conflicts from Lego, if their brand name is used?

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[–] c2h6 2 points 1 year ago

As a MOC builder, it doesn't matter to me what brand I use. I look at it as an art form as well, with the blocks being my medium. What's important is the final product, not what it's made with. Nobody cares whether Van Gogh used Faber-Castell paints or whatever.

When using non-lego pieces, I restrict myself to pieces that lego themselves also design, so I avoid specialised pieces. I think we both agree that using pieces that exist outside of lego's library of parts is "cheating" in a way.

But then again, lego themselves are making a lot of new parts which are made of other parts... Funnily enough, some of the new parts they're making, I could have sworn they were made by megabloks many years ago :) but that's a different rant for another time.