Is Mega dead? Is Mattel Brick Shop replacing it? Are we getting more sets? Did Lego kill Mega for good? Who knows! Let's find out!Previous: >>11570097Best sources for Mega news:https://www.instagram.com/bryan_mcx/?hl=enhttps://www.instagram.com/megaplayants/?hl=enArchived Threads:https://archive.palanq.win/toy/search/subject/Mega/
I hate car shit.I don't want car shit.Can they please do literally ANYTHING that isn't car shit?
at a Targetthe only reason I picked this up to look at it was to check out the clearance price on the sticker. I thought Target had old Xbox 360s?I was shocked to find out it was... a Mega Bloks sets?! whoa! glancing at the package, you'd never know! it totally looked like a real XBox 360.my friend said it's not accurate because it didn't include the Red Rings of Death lol(you'd know what that is if you had an XBox 360!)
>>11588874if ANYTHING can "save" Mega Bloks, it's the tiny matching Hot Wheels carsit's Mattel's "Minifig" that LEGO CANNOT COPY! take THAT Lego!I'm not sure it will work, but it's good of them to try. Lego's Speed Champions sets are among the coolest sets Lego offers, and these are direct competition to that.>>11588851I think "Mega Bloks" was replaced by "Mega (in the block logo)" to somehow seem cooler, and now they switch to "Mattel Brick Shop" they must be so frustrated they think Mega Bloks name is consumer poison. are they right? or should they have doubled-down and kept going with Mega Bloks and not admitted defeat?
Mega Bloks Pyrates was my childhood bros
>>11588890SKELETON CREW
Apparently Mega lost the license in 2022. They started to fire designers by 2023.Such is life
Any info on 2026 sets?
>>11588876Nice reddit post. Are we truly this dead?>>11588890>>11588898Have some pícs I've been taking. Pyrates is so fucking kino. It's funny, I recently acquired the Lego Black Pearl (the old one, not the new one) and holy shit my Pyrates ships blow it the fuck out of the water in quality and size. The Lego ship is fucking tiny. Granted, it does have a tiny ass captain's quarters while the Megabloks ships don't have anything, but the fucking pos doesn't even actually have a deck! Imagine that, it's just this empty space that is supposed to be the below-deck area but there's nothing above for the minifigs to stand because lmao it's not minifig scaleAnd if you want it to be minifig scale you need to fork over $380 jesus christ.
>>11588890>>11588898See that hueg skeleton ship in the background>>11588874I like cars but there's only so many cars you can build before you get bored. It's different from Hot Wheels because you can actually play with those, you can't put a brick car on a race track I have no fucking clue how Lego's car lines are so popular. >>11588883MEGA is not a household name. Megaconstrux was a weird turn but still ok-ish because of all the Halo hype around it. Truth is Megabloks has always been niche, just take a look at the community of people who collected some of the most popular themes like Dragons and Pyrates. It is completely dwarfed by the amount of people who collected older Lego themes like Castle, all the space themes, early Star Wars, and so on. Don't even get started on the literally who sets like Alien Agency, which while cool in concept and execution were terrible quality. There's a reason why to date if you look up ANYTHING Mega online it's almost all Halo or CoD. While I love my Dragons and Pyrates sets, they had major issues with the plastic quality they used. Hands were very prone to breaking off, legs often became loose quite easily, and all manner of small pieces just broke down. There's also the fact that they used very specialized building pieces which, while cool, made it complicated to just tear apart and rebuild whatever you wanted. It's a trade-off that gave Mega more soul but removed the MOC factor a bit. Mega hasn't had a successful original theme in years, and the IPs they get don't pack enough of a punch.
even as a car guy i dont see the appeal of building a car out of bricks instead of a basic ass maisto model kit. its impossible finding a decent halo set at my nearest target but the shelves always have plenty of brick slop
>>11589137It's over
>>11589747Neo-shifters seems to be somewhat remembered. It even has its own wiki.>>11589938Sick picture.
Customs.
>>11589993Not yet
>>11590286thanks mate. i have a bunch of edited ones too but most are too big a file size to share :/
>>11590337Do the standard swords fit in their hands?>>11591075>>11591095No problem. Toy photography is one of my favorite parts of the hobby. You also went the extra mile of building something. I wish I could help with the filesizes. The only things I can think of are cropping or switching the file type.
>>11590337Based
>>11591871its a lot of fun, i definitely gotta take more photos with other sets in the future. for now im just playing around with the lightroom app and seeing what sticks
the lights really tickle my balls
>>11585488Continuing
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>>11591871Swords fit.
>>11592112>>11592116Up close and personal shots are the best
I had a huge collection of codbloks and other lines, Aliens and Halo and X-Files and those GoT dragons and enough AssCreed to build British and French battalions... Lost it all in a move. Back to absolute zero.Since then I got the Beatles set and I grabbed one of those KO Codbloks sets on Amazon. It's not much but it's a start. I have no idea how I'm going to rebuild, none of the CoD vehicles are still in print anymore. Misery.I liked to remix my CoD minis into the factions from STALKER. That's outside my reach for now, maybe if I find the exo suit dudes cheap on eBay I can start to rebuild them.
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>>11592822>I had a huge collection of codbloks and other lines, Aliens and Halo and X-Files and those GoT dragons and enough AssCreed to build British and French battalions... Lost it all in a move. Back to absolute zero.Sorry that happened to you. WTF happened?>I have no idea how I'm going to rebuild, none of the CoD vehicles are still in print anymore. Misery.You should probably work your way backwards, start with newest stuff (Fallout.Skyrim, not brickshop) and slowly rebuild from there. Good luck, Anon.>>11592753The fact that your police recolored Mega CoD figs reminds me of one of my favorite Lego City Police memes. I couldn't find it but it's about how the city's police force got more militaristic over time.
>>11592852>Sorry that happened to you. WTF happened?Moving disaster. Lost everything that couldn't fit in my car, pretty much.
>>11592852Space Police also knows that feel
This guy's stare never gets old
>>11592614they really are. i especially like to get that cctv sorta angle
>>11592856What is that image
>do you feel in charge?
>>11594177ayy lmaos
>>11594429Lol
Does anyone know why the LEGO generals get nuked?
>>11596439Autism
Long time since I've posted here but good to see this thread still going, downsized .y collection alot over the years but a sparks been reignited. From store shelves and and incredible sales to Ali express and Facebook marketplace it's good to see mega still has love somewhere
>>11596439you need to read the novel to get the whole story.basically somebody was makingnew thread--->!!!after like 50 picsconstantlyspamming so many new threads---->!that it was impossible to keep upand now it's a giant mess where nobody cares anymore, or really knows where to go or anything.
So what licenses are still sticking to Mega? Obviously Pokemon's an enormous loss, do they have anything like Fallout or Borderlands to fall back on anymore?
I like Lego but these cars look way better than the Technic cars.
>>11596439Moc autists got butthurt
https://weibo.com/7800277148/Q9oEZqhvJXJ's still doing those remixed KOs
>>11596800Anything Microsoft is still good to go most likely, but due to recent events I wouldn't be too hopeful about those either.
>>11594351>>11595858The infected posing is really nice>>11596854Nice to see the Chinese are picking up the slack
>>11596854What's crazy about this is that the expo is in Shanghai, the one city there that is litigious about IP rights. Normally the legally grey stuff don't show up there. Mega has been officially dead in China for years but this shows that Mattel as a whole has ZERO legal representation there.
>>11596870>>11596854 I hope this shit shows up cheap on Ali.
>>11596870Fuck, I would love a bike
>>11597108There was that one set with an allied soldier on a motorcycle and Axis officer
>>11597108>>11597630I also found this smaller set while looking for a picture
>>11597630The one "Axis" soldier Mega didn't quietly disown on their CoD database before it was retired.
Alex Mason from BlOps got a bike in the second year's wave.
>>11597661Why were they so weird about it? Other companies sold more accurate WWII German soldiers for decades before Mega even existed.
>>11597665No idea, even asked them directly but got a bland non-answer. Was probably overlooked by most people but I noticed they didn't have their German troop pack or the WW2 16-pack that was Germans vs USA in the database when every other WW2 set was there. Was also a visibly German tank set leaked but never saw the light of day, with only a generic comment of "no plans to release at this time" when someone asked about it.
>>11597697Tragic. At least they rereleased that Amazon exclusive battlepack during Covid.
>>11597712 They also released that cancelled Heroes pack with Won-Dar accidentally in Europe. Tried to cancel it again and then released it. Although I have no idea what distro was like - probably terrible.
>>11597712Also thankful the Chinese know what sells and have done Germans in grey and in tan uniforms.
I just posted this in another thread.. but I had somehow forgotten I had taken these.
>>11596865glad you like it. ill be getting a new set soon to expand the "map"
I know you guys weren't into my first batch, so I did some tinkering with them, and now they look great.
>>11598838So that's what they mean by handaxe
I'd nut if they started making their own themes again but with modern articulation and quality
>>11593240>>11597058>>11596743Exquisite oc! Thank you.>>11596746Also... High sodium, Redittardation slop fatigue, Dearth sarrs, and Pokε-leakage may have caused the butthurt to become terminal.>and now it's a giant mess where nobody cares anymore, or really knows where to go or anything.There may be an alternate /lg/ site (not redddont) that could be brought back to life with an influx of new blood, and a living site for the only other MH poster left here, but posting those links would be inviting boogiemans to shit up those sites (into oblivion?), too. Most block /toy/channers wouldn't go anyway.Have some low level nightmare fuel for spooky season. Stay strong in these dark times.
Marvel customs and a WIP
Mega Cope thread
>>11601363Why the Spider-Man? We’ve gotten a lot of official ones.
>>11601481No
>>11601597theyre not as posable as the newer figures. construx redid the figures around the time they renamed themselves
>>11603194What more did they add besides a boot swivel? The last Spiderman figures were pretty articulated.
Mega Construx horror collection when?
>>11603227hopefully when Lego stops gobbling them all
>>11603224nigga the difference is pretty obvious. just look at the arms in >>11601363 and compare to the box art in your post
>>11603237i wish it was mega that gobbled it all. the lego minifigs have always pissed me off even as a jit. its been centuries and they still use the same articulation from day 1
>>11603256Oh. I guess I never noticed the lack of an arm swivel in the old figures.
>>11603224 That's a terrible figure.
>>11603224While this does look surprisingly good, I can't stop giggling at the thought of a kid opening their presents on christmas day and getting the one two punch of Mega Bloks Amazing Spiderman
>>11603227A rerelease of the Xeno and Predator would do wonders for my mood.You could get a wave's worth of minifigs out of the Universal Monsters, easy.
Mega Dead thread
>>11603634Not so dead if you think of it as the XJ thread featuring Mega on the side, look at this fat Hermione.
>>11603380yeah the problem however is that the arms look a little noodle-y now but the articulation makes up for it
>>11604266I love this picture for what it implies. Reminds me of this.
>>11603640>make an extremely well articulated figure>restrict all its movements with a robe
Halobros...
>>11607743it's mattel brick shop halo time, babeee
>>11607184 Neat. I was fiddling around with the colour balance and it looked so mush more different than the original shot.
>>11607743after like 4 years with no heroes I gave upunless they release the modular bases I dont care
>>11609304 I seriously doubt it. I think your only hope are bootlegs at places like Ali. It's sad and I DO want more stuff... But I'm also happy with what I have
>>11609393>happy with what I havethe only way to be
>>11609393God if only there was someone making bootlegs of Dragons stuff. Literally impossible to get anything except modern soldiers
>>11609393>I think your only hope are bootlegs at places like Ali.There is nothing related to those sets, it wasnt even in production to get some of those chinaman surplus.
