Comment by delichon
17 hours ago
These kits can have extraordinary longevity. I was playing with Lincoln Logs in 1967. Turns out they got started in 1918. Lego bricks have been around since 1945. The moat created by seriously delighting your customers at a young age is large.
It is a really nice concept. I had never heard of it. But then as GenX at young age I played with Fishertechnik [0] more than with Lego. Around since 1966 [1].
[0] https://www.fischertechnik.de/en
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischertechnik
Construx is what I played with. It was only sold for a few years.
> The moat created by seriously delighting your customers at a young age is large.
I'm not sure that's enough: most kids wouldn't be able to tell a genuine Lego brick from a knock-off.
(Lego famously has insane quality control on their tolerances. But I haven't had any trouble with knock-off bricks so far either.)
I'm sure that Lego still captures virtually all of the revenue in this category, no?
Maybe, I'm not sure. Though Wikipedia demonstrates that you don
Don't forget Erector Sets.
I spend untold hours failing to build a cable tramway between my mother's dresser and bed.
But at least now I'm an expert at pylon design!
> The moat created by seriously delighting your customers at a young age is large.
I wish Meccano would get its shit together. I can’t see anything I want on their limited site and there is so much cool stuff that could be made.
https://www.meccano.com/