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Lord Busniess must be happy those meddlesome master builders wont be able to build stuff now.

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 3 days ago

We can do injection molding in the US

We "can". But we end up with Mega Bloks

Hmm. Were they manufactured in the US?

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It sounds like Canada and then China.

https://old.reddit.com/r/megaconstrux/comments/1diz26n/why_exactly_did_mega_bloks_fell_of_so_hard/

Mega Bloks used to be a privately owned company based in Canada. You may remember the old Call of Duty Collector sets had a set of coordinates printed below the logo on their packaging? If you entered those into Google Maps it would show you Mega's factory or home offices in Canada.

I don't remember exactly when, eight years ago maybe, Mattel bought out Mega Bloks/Construx. The Canada factories were closed and manufacturing relocated to China.

That bring said, I doubt that the issue is an inability to do precision molding so much as not doing so at the desired price point. As I recall, Mega Bloks aimed to be cheaper than Legos.