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May be written here about compatible alternatives to LEGO Technic? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As a child, I was thrilled by the LEGO Technics sets. Especially 2-in-1 or 3-in-1 sets. While looking for Technic sets for my son, I found that this range went in a direction I didn't like at all.

Either it's way too simple and has little to do with Technics (one, or two small technic functions).
Or LEGO technics is way too expensive, only for the showcase and without a B-Model (no 2-in-1).

As an alternative, the name "CADA Master" or "Mould King" often comes up.

Does anyone have positive experience with these alternatives?
And is it allowed to write about it here?

@ Here a small mousetrap tinkering, which I built last week with my son. And the first test, if I can share a moving *.gif here in lemmy.world.

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

Personally I would like this community to be LEGO-only, as the name implies. As an example, Reddit had alternative communities for non-LEGO bricks like mould king and lepin.

I would sub to an alternative community about other brick types, but I think it’s important to keep them separate.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like there's a difference between "lego compatible alternatives" and Lepin-like companies that just take advantage of countries that don't enforce IP laws to explicitly sell stolen designs

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I am on the same boat, Brands who do their own stuff=good. Knockoffs =Bad. This elitist Attitude on reddit Was the reason i left this community

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Reddit is different though in that there was much more activity. At our current scale, I don't think splintering off into sub-groups would be great. As long as there's a post just about every day here, maybe, I would not want to restrict what can be posted too much. We can always course-correct if off-brand takes up too much space and drowns out the actual Lego stuff, but I don't see that happening for the near future.