I bought this Block Tech set a couple of years ago in Poundland I think, or the now defunct 99p Stores, they're still in Poundland
from time to time and in various configurations, with adventurers and road
workers and such like.
I held them back meaning to photograph the
contents but never got round to it, and it's not as if the pictures I have
taken leave any real question-marks over these Hestair Kiddycraft descendents.
Then these turned-up the other day in Wilkinson's/Wilco's (Oopa has swapped
shirts with T'klen!), now branded as Blox
with a couple of mean orkish-looking characters added to 'smiley-alien' and the
NASA types. Wilkinson's have larger
sets as well, one has about 35 figures in it for the price of about five
Scandinavian equivalents, it should be noted that these - like most clones -
have better-modelled feet than the Nordic ones!
If only people would get the idea that all
these clones (there are dozens of them now) are just as good as the Danish
usurpers, and just as deserving of existence. Canaidia's Mega Blocs are about
half the price of Bilund's finest, while the Far-Eastern clones can - like these
- be five or ten times cheaper, and kids don't care who populates their
creation (unless adults generate brand-prejudice in them), so long as there are
lots of them!
Christmas is coming, put cheap aliens under
the tree, it's what the little-baby-Jesus would have wanted . . . probably . .
.
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