My son just celebrated his first birthday this month and we held a big party for him. He received many gifts, and below are two of the gifts he received. I find it interesting to write about these two particular gifts for a few reasons. Firstly these two trucks are almost identical but the one of the left is made in
The mold is the same except for the truck’s load. The Canadian truck seems to be made with a higher grade plastic than the Chinese one as it is already broken. Both trucks came with a plastic figurine that sits in the truck along with a few bricks that lock together like Lego. The blocks that came with the Chinese truck do not actually connect to the studs on the truck whereas they do on the Canadian truck. The figurine that comes with the Canadian truck locks onto the supplied blocks. But guess what? The Chinese one does not.
Another interesting thing is the sticker on the bottom of the Chinese truck. It doesn’t make much sense. It reads:
“The intelligence development educates the series. The hand eye brain integration moderates”.
Just another example of bad English translation from Chinese imported goods.
I’m not sure if Xin Ji Qi have just ripped off the Mega Bloks truck or if they have made it under a license but they’ve done a pretty crap job of it. No worries though, my son enjoys them both and he couldn’t care less.