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A non obvious topic, but which amusement parks do you recommend rather than Disneyland?
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Legoland. Obviously ๐
Fuck Lego (the company). Their bricks are on the lower end of the quality spectrum, way too many stickers, shit and cheaped out designs and bricks and all that for 50 to 400% more cash. There is nothing that makes Lego any better than competitors, except the little "Lego" imprint. And, in fact, if you call identical bricks, that are simply not made/sold by Lego, "Lego", the will sue you (if you have any public influence). Also, they sabotage competitors by claiming IP on basic parts that are hard to realize differently, even though they did not invent the concept of clamping bricks at all.
I get the point of "Lego was good when I was a kid, I want to give my kid the same experience" - but instead of beautiful, complex and interesting 300โฌ Unimog they'll get an ugly-ass, very simple and cheaply made 400โฌ set with much less design and parts value.
If you are already boycotting stuff, try eg. BlueBrixx, Pantasy, CaDa, Cobi, Mould King and dozens of smaller ones. Some are produced in the EU, like Cobi (Poland).
Thanks for sharing the names, which one is your favorite?
As each of them more or less specializes in a category, that's hard to say. Pantasy focuses on general models, with very special parts to actually convey the license, funwhole makes very neat house models, some with lighting (not two small LEDs, but dozens of LEDs with intensity and color perfectly matching their purpose and scene, with hidden cable management through special bricks) and other models, cobi makes very accurate vehicle models (including ships etc.) (mostly in system bricks), CaDa makes good vehicles too, but more in technic bricks (including remote control and actual technic functions). Mould King is more of a jack-of-all-trades, but overall cheaper (in my experience). BlueBrixx is more complicated to describe, as they have multiple series, including reselling other manufacturers (eg. Mould King), but they also have their own sets, for which they buy existing bricks (mostly GoBricks).
So overall: It depends on the type of set, but especially for large (also expensive, but FUCKING large) sets, BlueBrixx is best. Eg. Burg Blaustein, 26k pieces, 940โฌ, and the astronomer's series, 21.5k pieces, 240โฌ (the next set for +>5k pieces and probably +~200โฌ was already announced). But there are more manageable sets, like the V100/200 locomotives (~5.5k pieces, 200โฌ and ~8k pieces respectively). And of course, many smaller and neater sets.
Then look at neutral, unpaid/sponsored reviews and compare with competitors. Also, watch Held der Steine (German), specifically where he was sued (two times).