Questions tagged [clone-brands]
Companies who make bricks that are compatible with LEGO bricks.
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In what ways are LEGO and Megabloks incompatible?
I know that the basic bricks of LEGO and Megabloks fit together, but was wondering if other elements do too.
Such as:
Plates
Rods (Ones Minifigures can hold, not Technic)
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Is this part real LEGO or a knockoff?
I bought a LEGO lot off craigslist a few days ago with some sets and some bulk parts. It included some parts that appeared to have been bought in bulk (maybe pick-a-brick?). It also had some random ...
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Are these bricks old LEGO/Duplo clones?
Can anyone identify these bricks, which I suspect are LEGO clones. They may be more than 30 years old.
I bought them on ebay as Betta Bilda from LEGO/Duplo dealer. Some BB was included, but these are ...
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What LEGO clone brand are these with 4-peg studs?
I think this was a present in the mid-late 80s.
Very sophisticated building blocks for top-view apartment-room design. They also had furniture and appliances. Can anyone tell me the brand etc?
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Have I got a mystery croissant lurking in my Lego collection?
I've loved every minute of a massive LEGO sort-out recently, but a mystery imposter lurked in there.
My kids swear blind that we've had these two types of croissant for over seven years, but I don't ...
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How to describe a building set which is like LEGO without using the "LEGO" word?
We are sellers of building toys like LEGO online. But their website does not allow using the word "LEGO" directly to describe the products. Are there any other words that could describe the building ...
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Is this a real Technic cloak?
I found a cloak piece in some used LEGO I bought from a former LEGO employee. The cloak does not say LEGO on it, but it fits perfectly onto Technic figures with a satisfying pop and matches the ...
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General guidelines to identify real LEGO pieces from fake or copy?
I see a lot of questions here about if a certain piece is really LEGO or not and this made me wonder if there is any guideline to follow to identify real LEGO piece from the duplicate or fake one?
I ...
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Which bricks are still protected by copyright / trademark / patent law?
In 2010, The European court of justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg validated a lower-court ruling, in favor of Canada's Mega Brands, that Lego's bricks can't be legally protected by trademark law because ...
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What alternative LEGO-compatible toys are avaliable?
My kids love LEGO toys, but we find them expensive. Often, they get all the sets of a series, but keep asking for something similar.
We have thus begun buying Mega Bloks and Kre-O, which include some ...
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What are the brick numbers of the bricks circled in this image?
What are the brick numbers of the ones circled in this image?
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Is there any legal LEGO compatible bricks?
I have found out that there are many so called LEGO compatible bricks. But are those bricks legal in the sense that they are not copy cat of original LEGO.
If there are such bricks - what are they ?
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Are BanBao bricks compatible with Lego?
Does anyone has experience with BanBao bricks?
BanBao World
Are they compatible with Lego bricks? They have basic sets and plates which are at a good price.
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Please help identify this 1980's, very odd, Non-Lego brick!
I have one more mystery brick to share, and it is a strange one. This brick is FIVE studs long, and the width is comparable to a regular 2x4 Lego brick. The inner tubes are also comparable, but ...
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How To Sort Out 3rd Party Technic Clones From LEGO Originals?
I've recently bought bulk parts, and wish to sort out the official LEGO pieces from the inferior quality 3rd party clones.
On bricks I can easily spot-out the clones, becasue they don't sport the "...
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The controversy around clone brands
The origin of the self-locking building bricks
Hilary Page was born in 1904 in Sanderstead, England. Along with several partners, Page decided to go into the toy business in 1932. In 1936, he began ...
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Is this antenna a LEGO piece?
I came across this piece while sorting:
It appears to be similar to 2569, but it's clearly a different part. 2569 doesn't have the ridges and has a spherical tip rather than the cylindrical one on ...
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Is this skateboard piece LEGO?
I bought some second-hand Lego and it's a total mish-mash of parts. There was a small quantity of Mega-Bloks in it, but those parts always seem easy to identify. However, I'm stumped about this piece ...
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identification: strange parts in a sprue
Found this in my random parts bag.
No Lego logo's anywhere, also the shade of blue is slightly off the standard blue in the Lego colour palette. The bottoms do seem to fit quite snug on Lego studs...
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Are Nanoblocks compatible with other building bricks?
Recently I have found Nanoblocks, a Japanese brick toy, in American stores. How compatible are these with other building toys? They look to be approximately the same scale as Modulex.
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Are these LEGO Star Wars bricks genuine or fake?
I bought some LEGO pieces from eBay, and I'm not sure if they are genuine LEGO.
I compared them with my LEGO, and every piece of my LEGO has the logo ©LEGO on it. However, only some of the ones I ...
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Different brand, slightly bigger than Lego
I have a set of Technic bricks used by an academy for teaching robotics to children.
They are not compatible with Lego (I think that the pitch is 9mm instead of the 8.6mm of the original Lego design).
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Can anyone identify this trans-neon green piece?
I've got two of these little fellas in my mixed box circa 2000. No markings and no ideas!
Dish 2 x 2 Inverted for reference.
*edit, added Antenna Whip 8H for another reference
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Please help identify this vintage (but non-Lego) brick!
It's time to play the "what brick is this" game, and this time our contestant is definitely non-Lego, yet vintage. This brick was in a small lot of early-60's Samsonite Lego bricks, and I am assuming ...
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Which blocks are these with small round knobs?
I have few blocks remaining from the block set I got as a kid. It's not LEGO bricks, but I also couldn't find which block type are these and who is making them. Does anyone knows from looking the ...
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Late 1970s hospital and helicopter building brick set
I'm afraid I don't have a picture, but I am trying to identify a Christmas gift I fondly remember receiving as a child circa 1979.
It was a 3-foot box of building bricks and the front picture showed ...
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I got a vintage roof brick that is very nice but can’t find what it is?
I got these parts in a lot, but can’t find any history or brand or set on them?
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What are these vintage LEGO-like window pieces?
I have a bag of square white vintage LEGO-like windows but with grooves on 2 sides and square pegs on 2 sides.
Has clear "window" pieces and these beam-like bars, the pegs seem to fit the ...
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Which block manufacturer made this type of person in the 80s
I always thought this was LEGO, and played with it in my LEGOs my whole life (got this in the 80s) but found out recently that it is not LEGO. What brand is it? Who made it? He can hold lego tools, ...
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Did LEGO ever make bricks without the LEGO logo?
While sorting my LEGO collection I found bricks with two different fonts and many without a font at all. I also found Tyco and Mega Bloks bricks. So did LEGO ever make blank bricks?
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Adapters for Lego Duplo and Mega Bloks
Similar to this question I am interested in combining Duplo Lego with Mega Bloks.
I want to have full compatibility, i.e. being able to put Duplo on top of Mega Bloks, which requires some type of ...
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Older compatible/clone brand with PB initials
I have quite a few bricks from a LEGO-compatible brand and would like to know more about the brand these are from. I have them since the very early 90s, if not earlier, so I would think they are a ...
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Can anyone identify what kind of block these hinged blocks are?
They all link together. I added a normal Lego brick to compare size.
I have had no luck with Google.
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Searching for a part like 48989 but without the pins
I am searching for a part like LEGO 48989, but without the 4 pins.
The manufacturer doesn't matter as long as the part is compatible with LEGO bricks.
Also, a combination of parts is ok if it has the ...
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Help identifying minifigs and pieces of sets - purple character with grey horns and red eyes, cyborg type skull, astronauts light up with moving knees
I've got some doozies I've tried identifying. Please see photos but basically a purple guy with horns and yellow teeth, a cyborg type skull (could be a combo), astronauts with moving knees and wearing ...
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Help identifying wedge tile piece
2 x 3 flat tile piece. Same size as 2 x 3 wedge plate but I cannot find anything listed with the smooth top. "P 9" marking on the back with "lego" stamp but no part id number.
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Help identify minifig Pharaoh-like headdress
Recently found this minifig headdress in a bag with mixed LEGO and analogs. Not sure if it belongs to LEGO, but quality is great and it perfectly fits minifigure head. The sets in bag was belong to ...
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Looking for sets to use as components of a 1930s - 1940s European city
I'm planning to build a 1930s / 1940s European city (like Paris, London, Prague, ...).
As buildings, I'm currently going for modulars that could pass for pre-1950 European buildings, possibly with ...
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How can I tell if minifigures are custom-made or LEGO Originals?
I see that on Amazon you can find a lot of minifigures but I can't tell if they are cheap knock-offs or not.
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Which type of LEGO bricks would be compatible with the Mega Bloks Blind Bag Figures?
My husband collects the Marvel figures which come in the Mega Bloks blind bags. His birthday is coming up and I'd like to build him a display for his Marvel figures. I'd strongly prefer to use LEGO in ...
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Are miniature blocks (like Wise Hawk or lno) legal to buy online in Europe (Hungary)?
I bought some Wise Hawk mini blocks (about 100 pieces) for me and my family in Hungary online from China. But the customs office has seized it, saying it is an unlicensed copy of LEGO and I committed ...
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Converting Nanobocks builds to LEGO
Had anyone attempted and had any success in converting a nanoblocks build to use LEGO bricks?
On the horizontal plane, the nanoblocks bricks seem to be half the size of LEGO bricks (4mm x 4mm versus ...
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Reinforcing a pair of Bent Double 11.5 Liftarms under Rotational Tension
I purchased a clone MOC out of interest a few months back, this following set.
Because it does use clone pieces, I knew there was a high chance of breakage and poor fit, especially in the tensegrity ...
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What kind of Lego-compatible figures are these?
Can anyone tell me about these Lego-compatible figures? They clearly aren't Lego brand, they don't look like Mega Blok figures or Tyco figures that I have seen (not that they couldn't be one of those ...
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Who produces these sets of Venetian gondolas, and is there more of it?
While staying in Venice, Italy, I came across a shopping window with what looked like a LEGO set of a gondola - except that the familiar white letters in the red top left square said "IDEA" rather ...
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What are these magnetic LEGO-like bricks?
Can anyone identify these? The tin they are in is dated around 1967 so bricks might be of a similar age. They are magnetic.
Any help greatly appreciated.
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Are these bricks with dimple on top of a stud LEGO?
These bricks came in a lot of LEGO bricks from the 1960's-1970's.
I have looked on Google to check other manufacturers and I couldn't find a match to them.
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Is a huge box of old unsorted Lego and non-Lego pieces with no instructions or boxes of any value?
I have an old big bin of at least 20,000 Lego and Lego-like pieces. I never kept the boxes or the instructions when I was finished building sets and I have Lego pieces from at least 50 different sets, ...
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identifying mega bloks parts, including a lot of big fig parts
Morning all,
I have got a massive box of mega bloks, but am really struggling to find what sets they are from. I have tried to find the more obscure bits so it can hopefully narrow things a bit.
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Are these LEGO windows?
I have had these windows in my LEGO collection since the 80's and my mum bought them second hand. They look and feel like Lego but don't have the word LEGO stamped inside the hollow circles on top.
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