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Re:Lego breaks ground on first US manufacturing facility by NegativeLatency on Sunday April 23, 2023 @11:55AM (#35677309)
Tight tolerances and good quality control cost money.

I remember trying to play with my friends megablocks as a kid and they just wouldn’t stay together well

There are also some Chinese companies making decent compatible bricks now

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Re:Lego breaks ground on first US manufacturing facility by shadowgovt on Sunday April 23, 2023 @01:00PM (#35678024)
For a long time, that was a function of patents: LEGO bricks actually have slightly concave pegs, like inverted cones.

Those patents only recently expired, which is one of the reasons they pushed so hard into licensing to distinguish their brand.

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