I would say the Click Brick mega stadium, which is currently selling for £30 in The Works. It has some 2200+ pieces, most of them plain dark grey admittedly. But amongst those pieces are hundreds that are useful to train collectors mostly including several dozen plain glass 2x2 windows. It's a clone brand, but Click Brick are the closest I have ever seen to Lego quality, for the most part. Their white bricks are awful, but apart from that their bricks are a decent match for Lego. For the price I can't complain.

I would say the Click Brick mega stadium, which is currently selling for £30 in The Works. It has some 2200+ pieces, most of them plain dark grey admittedly. But amongst those pieces are hundreds that are useful to train collectors mostly including several dozen plain glass 2x2 windows. It's a clone brand, but Click Brick are the closest I have ever seen to Lego quality, for the most part. Their white bricks are awful, but apart from that their bricks are a decent match for Lego. For the price I can't complain

I'm not sure about the current ones, but Star Diamond used to make the old Click Brick sets. Their sets tend to be really good.

Character Building (which are made by Cobi) are another really good one, particularly their Doctor Who sets. I agree about Enlighten. The first few things of theirs that I got weren't that great, but they've really come far since then. Mega Bloks are usually really good. I don't really care for their game licenses other than for parts, but I'm a big fan of their Hello Kitty sets and the Barbie line has some great animal sets.

Well, I have picked up a Kre-o mini plane set for £1 in Poundland. It was a cute little plane and has some nicely printed parts. I can replicate it in LEGO (pretty much) and it comes with three little guns and a printed helmet that reasonably fits a Minifig (only if they have a hollow head stud). For a pound it was a great little buy. Also, the tiny figures make great action figures or toys for Minifigs.

Is anyone selling the offbrand bricks in a marketplace by brick, a la BrickLink or BrickOwl? I've got about $20 worth of bricks in my rifle stock kit, would love to be able to cut costs & thereby prices.

I ran across these McFarlane Walking Dead sets in Target today... was tempted to get; after seeing better pictures online, I really think I want it - the floorboards and fishtanks are impressive, if a little TOO detailed for LEGO:

Governor's Room and random figures, Amazon has a lot more than what I saw at Target... search for "McFarlane Walking Dead building set."

EDIT: Detailed look at floorboards.

Edited June 16, 20159 yr by fred67

I'll add yet another one from Oxford for people who like to display stuff http://oxfordtoy.co.kr/pro/detailox.asp?m_code=15771&p_code=10

McFarlane does GoT

http://toybox.io9.com/game-of-thrones-is-getting-its-own-lego-for-grown-ups-1715208173

Mega-blocks is doing a Despicable Me Advent Calendar.

Apparently this is not MB's first Advent Calendar, but I've never seen them before. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, since Lego's ACs are a consistently big seller. I may actually have to get one of these. I'm opposed to Mega Blocks on principle, but my kid loves the Minions.

Edited September 21, 20159 yr by ResIpsaLoquitur

Mega-blocks is doing a Despicable Me Advent Calendar.

Those are the worst looking minions I've ever seen. They're not even yellow.

LOL...must have had the wrong hyperlink saved. Fixed.

Although I don't have a picture of it, I remember seeing an Oxford minifigure with bendable knees which looked really interesting.