MEGA BLOKS PRESENTS: CALL OF DUTY (Including Nuketown Playset)

[benjipwns]

http://callofduty.megabloks.com/en-us/
http://callofduty.megabloks.com/en-us/toys/construction



wait. what?

Modular accessories system allows you to customize each weapon for every member of your fireteam.

UNIQUE RESIN
New plastic resins add realism with texture effects like marbled camo and arctic speckle.

GEAR UPS
Customize your figures with highly detailed accessories like combat vests, backpacks and leg holsters that can be fitted with extra weapons and gear to give an edge in any mission.

[pilonv1]

They do a bunch of games stuff, the Halo stuff was pretty popular.




COD is a bit  though

[benjipwns]

I just came across it randomly at the store, the Skylanders stuff made sense. But Call of Duty made me lol because they're all like the depressing war-torn locations/style of the games. Plus the whole mercenaries part.

Apparently they have Ass Creed too 
http://assassinscreed.megabloks.com/en-us/

[seagrams hotsauce]

  megabloks
trash. I'd get these for christmas from lesser family members and relegate them to a bin in my closet. I'd react to finding one of those pieces of shit in my Lego piles the way people would react to finding a bone in a piece of cake. Horror and disgust

[benjipwns]

The advantage of Duplo was that you couldn't accidentally mistake it for a Lego piece.

[Yeti]

Why would anyone ever buy a Skylander Mega Blok when they could buy a skylander figure that could be played in the video game instead? 

[Quaker]

It's actually really smart of them to pivot from being known as D-tier LEGO knockoffs to paying a shitload of money to take on popular licenses that LEGO won't touch(The Simpsons is the most risqué thing that LEGO licenses by a wide margin and they only started doing that this year.) I believe Mattel bought them earlier this year, before that they were owned by like...Rose Art, which were Crayola knockoffs when I was a kid.

They actually put out a lot of interesting, intricate models through the Call of Duty and Halo lines but I can't justify paying LEGO prices for them.





(Yeah, peddling military propaganda to kids is gross but can I deny my hypothetical kids GI Joe?  )

The true head-scratchers are stuff like Gears of War Erector sets, K'nex Titanfall and McFarlane buildable Walking Dead dioramas.

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[benjipwns]

omg at the figures in the Gears of War one

[pilonv1]

It's actually really smart of them to pivot from being known as D-tier LEGO knockoffs to paying a shitload of money to take on popular licenses that LEGO won't touch(The Simpsons is the most risqué thing that LEGO licenses by a wide margin and they only started doing that this year.)

From my understanding the licenced stuff has done pretty well for them too, I know the Halo range (at least initially) sold really well. I think some of their other kids stuff like Dora did good too. Can't believe I forgot this one too

[Mr. Gundam]

Gundam Mega Bloks in Japan, too.

[Kara]

Nuketown? Now I'll finally have a reason to brutally mock the skill of my nonexistent little cousin and ceaselessly call him a cigarillo.

[StealthFan]

what is the problem with mega blocks? I am unfamiliar.

[bluemax]

Cheaper build quality among other things.