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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 MrFloppy@lemmy.world to c/lego@lemmy.world

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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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[–] hikaru755@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There was some discussion about this in another post some time ago: https://lemmy.world/post/238970

To me it seems there's not really a consensus either way on Lego competitors at the moment. I for one am of the opinion that splitting off into multiple communities would not be a great idea for now, seeing how little content there is so far overall anyway. Having a community simply called "Lego" makes for the best discoverability right now, and allowing compatible brands as well just increases the chances of growing the community healthily. We can always change the rules if it becomes a problem.

Edit to add an answer to the other question: I do have quite some experience with alternative brands by now, I've written a little about that here. Not so much with technic-specific alternatives, but from what I'm hearing, that generally positive experience seems to extrapolate to technic offerings as well.

[–] MrFloppy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nice Summary. Thanks!
In your thread-link Admin Lux wrote: "Offbrand bricks are just fine. The reason I picked the Lego name is because everyone knows it..."