The Chinese sets are pretty high quality now. This is $50 compared to the $100* Lego one.
*mixed up sets earlier
Yes, it is very easy to produce something for cheaper, when you steal the IP and don't have to pay for it.
They work on commission?
Offensive? No better than game piracy?
I guess there really are stans for everything.
You're the one stanning for copyright infringement here in this very thread.
They only show you the Denmark factory in that one or something? Lego has factories in Eastern Europe and China dude.
It costs this company money to manufacture it and it costs me money to buy it. How is it close to piracy? It's just copyright infringement.
There were no questions in that post I responded to....
Piracy IS copyright infringement.
Dude, calm down.
Piracy is illegal. Buying knockoff Lego isn't.
Holy shit guys.
You the Tenga guy?
Selling any stolen IP is illegal. This includes LEPIN copies of LEGO sets.
"Knockoffs" implies compatible bricks of lower quality. That is clearly not illegal.
What you're defending is not just knockoffs. You are defending commercial copyright infringement, which is a point where both the courts and the law disagree with you.
Is buying knockoff Lego illegal?
No? Then stopped calling for me to get banned.
You need to calm yourself because you are having a meltdown over knockoff plastic bricks.
No one in this thread has called for you to get banned.
You're the one that's been going on a post storm, arguing in favor of IP theft.
You brought up designers not getting paid. I thought you meant designers employed by Lego and said they get a salary regardless. You brought up idea creators and yes, some do lose some money to knockoffs.
Lego uses wage slaves in China and Mexico. I'm a communist. Im not advocating that anyone buy anything. In fact, earlier in this thread I said there is no moral consumption here.
And this...
Been stewing on that one huh? Take a break bud. I'm not defending anyone. I'm saying knockoffs are a better value. That's all. You're the one who called for my banning because I insulted your favorite children's toy company.
I don't know what Lego pays its Chinese and Mexican workers. I don't know what Lepin pays its workers either.
So, which is it?
Are LEGO employees "wage slaves" or do they get paid a fair wage for their work?
Aren't lego designs protected under copyright or something?
Yes. Specific designs are copyrighted and reproducing them for sale is prohibited, just as reproducing a copyrighted piece of software for sale is prohibited.
Making a compatible brick line is 100% legal.
If Lepin simply made compatible bricks and designed its own sets, it would be a LEGO competitor. As-is, Lepin is nothing more than counterfeit goods.
These still seem all very expensive for such little sets. If I was a parent, I would buy a lego set once in a while at most, not a regular purchase. For the price of one small lego set you can buy a whole lot of other toys, bunch of action figures and vehicle sets for example of popular toy lines. While other toys have kept fairly standard pricing, LEGO prices just keep going up and have become way to inflated. Most families can't afford to be buying sets that often.
And the problem also is that once a kid has several sets, they have the blocks they need to be imaginative enough, why spend another 30-70$ on more small sets when the kid is going to mostly build random stuff with it instead of following directions? I've rarely seen a child build the actual sets as they are presented, they just build random stuff with the blocks. Because of this licensed sets loose worth for parents, as the people who really care about building the licensed sets are the adult collectors.
As this thread has shown, the price hasn't gone up. Sets are still produced along the full range of price points.
Building random things is still a huge draw for LEGO sets, as original creations are much more fun. Anyone who doesn't mix-match from sets, just because they are licensed sets is missing out.
I feel like a lot of people don't realize things like this exists anymore:
That's 1600 pieces for $60, or under 4 cents a piece. That's a lot of pieces for plenty of creativity at a reasonable price without any instruction booklets included.
What's sad is that people will always scalp the basic sets around the holidays. If you want to buy those for gifts (or for yourself) you need to do it in the summer months.
Keep moving those goal posts. The $300 city set/box/building exists. Deal with it.
The only goal post moving that's been done here has been by you, when you claimed that basic LEGO sets were too expensive, and then pointed to a high end set to "prove" your point.
That's like someone saying a typical car is too expensive, and then pointing to a Bentley to "prove" the point. "Well it goes from A to B, so it's a typical car."
