Elevated shipping costs are making your already expensive hobby more pricey.

Lord Busniess must be happy those meddlesome master builders wont be able to build stuff now.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    7 months ago

    We can do injection molding in the US

    We “can”. But we end up with Mega Bloks

    Hmm. Were they manufactured in the US?

    kagis

    It sounds like Canada and then China.

    https://old.reddit.com/r/megaconstrux/comments/1diz26n/why_exactly_did_mega_bloks_fell_of_so_hard/

    Mega Bloks used to be a privately owned company based in Canada. You may remember the old Call of Duty Collector sets had a set of coordinates printed below the logo on their packaging? If you entered those into Google Maps it would show you Mega’s factory or home offices in Canada.

    I don’t remember exactly when, eight years ago maybe, Mattel bought out Mega Bloks/Construx. The Canada factories were closed and manufacturing relocated to China.

    That bring said, I doubt that the issue is an inability to do precision molding so much as not doing so at the desired price point. As I recall, Mega Bloks aimed to be cheaper than Legos.