To be annoyed that dh has contaminated the real Lego with shit pretend Lego?

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Ds has quite a collection of genuine Lego Star Wars figures. Some have been quite pricey and he's had them for birthdays or saved up for them etc.
Dh bought him 8 figures for something stupid like £3 off eBay and now the bastardised pretend Lego is mixed in with the real sacred Lego .
If we ever want to sell it on I will now have to go through it and find the legs / heads etc that aren't marked sodding Lego.

Aibu to be precious over it? It's shit too. The legs fall off half the time.

Sacred lego?
Really?

I would have already removed the offending pieces and have them all kept separately in labelled baggies. I don't like unmixy things mixing.

If that's unreasonable then I am proud to BU.

actually I would probably start throwing away the evil impersonating Legot in a slow, months long process, but that might actuall BU

View it as a life-lesson for dc - sometimes buying cheap construction materials is a false economy.

Who sells lego? My kid plays with my old Lego

Isn't it like Brio where you just hand down the generations?!

A friend bought my kids a fake Lego set, it got mixed (and is rubbish!) I've been slowly weeding it out.... Just sneak it out when no-one is looking!

LTB. You know it makes sense.

Ds likes to mix and match the pieces and the heads etc and all the crap pretend Lego is mixed in now.

Ds actually hates building Lego because he is dyspraxic and cannot follow the instructions. He just likes the little guys. So we don't buy the sets, just the little guys.

Another ltb from me

I dislike it because I frequently buy myself a big set of Technics and was sad to read about Lego profits falling and people being laid off; mainly due to knock-off products.

I have the same moral objections as I do to film and music piracy or fake handbags and watches. Not because of some strange snobbery but because I respect the cost and quality that comes with a 'brand'.

I bought a Gudi aeroplane for ds because the Lego versions are ££££. I wish now I'd forked out the £300 or whatever it was for the proper Lego one, as the Gudi ones are actually shit. The tail won't even stay on. The instructions assumed you knew that some bits would go on in particular places and didn't bother to include those moves.

The review was presumably written by Mr Gudi as it was glowing. I should have known better, I am normally quite cynical and disbelieving but I wanted to avoid spending loads on an aircraft that would spend its flying hours being crashed into things

My ds is also a little bit challenged at following instructions but the Lego ones are fab for this OP. Your ds might not thank you but those precise 1 step by 1 step instructions are great for getting practice in and will help with fine motor skills, I promise you...

Nope, not BU but I doubt your DH would agree! My MIL bought a load of cheap shitty lego knock-offs for my DS and I smiled gratefully as I didn't want to be impolite, but now it's all mixed in with his enormous Lego collection and the blocks don't join together properly which drives DS (and me) mad. First world problems, I know.
I'm slowly weeding them out....

I just bin cheap lego...it never fits together the same as the proper stuff.

YANBU as someone who is all for finding things on a budget (for example non-brio train tracks can be great) I am yet to fine ANY non-lego Lego which isn't shit. DS had some which were a gift, I was fine with him having it, because it was a tank, he loves the world wars and lego 'don't do war'. But that stuff would not have been allowed to even come close to the real thing unless it was over my dead body.

I believe most relationship issues can be resolved through patience and work, but in this instance I say LTB.

I would find all the fake ones, super glue them together so they don't fall apart then put a distinguishing mark on them (spot of nail varnish on bottom of foot or something)

Actually I wouldn't because I couldn't care less about the sanctity of Lego, but if I could, that is what I would do.

Who sells Lego?, have a look on e bay-in mid December last year I saw the Hogwarts Castle go for £390!!!!!

YANBU, dp has done exactly the same thing. I've fished most of it out but there are definitely some bits of non lego in there. Being crap in the lego box.

Suprised to see all the negative comments on fake Lego - Lepin etc.

My partner loves it and he's super fussy! Our house is like a Lego warehouse :) he's even buying and selling it now.

Maybe the big Chinese guys have just tuned up their processes so the tolerances are all a bit slicker.

I built a few myself (VW beetle :)) and it was perfect. Only noticeable difference was the Lego icon on the little nodules and you don't get glossy box.