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.
We “can”. But we end up with Mega Bloks, a product that adults and children alike can agree is objectively inferior to Lego.
Hmm. Were they manufactured in the US?
kagis
It sounds like Canada and then China.
https://old.reddit.com/r/megaconstrux/comments/1diz26n/why_exactly_did_mega_bloks_fell_of_so_hard/
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.