Fucking hell. I hope Lego gets all their lawyers and ninjas on this. A minifig here and there, fine, especially if they aren't ones already published (although I hate that too). But this is so blatant. This is literally pissing in the face of Lego, and of you don't care about Lego as a big ole greedy corporation, at least know that it's also pissing in the face of its designers. That's Jamie's creations right there, and they're being copied right off. They even copy the fucking cover image even though the set has minor changes - probably because these fuckers have access to Lego molds but can't make retired parts - because they have no fucking creative part in their bodies.
I don't care very much that cheap bastards get their Not Café Corners cheaply. As long as they don't resell it and feel proud of their stolen merchandise, fine. I don't care very much for scalpers either. But I do care that fake parts are being dumped into the market, making it just as hard to find real Lego as it is to find, let's say, real original GBA games. I don't want to finally track down the last set of ridiculously expensive Grand Carousel parts in a few years and find that, hey, this doesn't look like the real thing.
If you care at all for Lego as a product and a hobby, you should take a stand against this shit. And if you think that "hey, Lego is not making the sets I want so I'll go with this instead", well, then you can fuck right off. Respectfully.
Yes, this riles me up.
