Children love to build and Mega Bloks are great for young builders. It's colorful pieces and easy to assemble parts make this toy a big hit. A great toy to help develop creativity while enriching critical thinking. Playing with this toy naturally reinforces Math concepts such as colors, counting and size.

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(formerly Mega Bloks Inc. and Ritvik Holdings) is a Canadian children's toy company that is currently a wholly owned subsidiary of Mattel. Mega Bloks, a line of construction set toys, is its most popular product.

1967, Montreal, CanadaMega Brands / Founded

10 awesome ideas to play with Megabloks

1. Grasping for babies. You can introduce Megabloks even to babies over 10 months, once they start grabbing things.
2. Stacking.
3. Color/ Shape Matching and Sorting.
4. Puzzles.
5. Counting and Sequencing.
6. Building blocks.
7. Pretend play.
8. Alphabet matching and phonics.

Another thing Mega Bloks is great at specifically is their figures. They're figures have articulated joints so can pose in much more interesting ways. They are built in molds, however, so LEGO does benefit from having interchangeable figures where Mega Bloks do not.

Mattel is incorporating biobased resins in its Mega Bloks toy line. Three building sets for preschool-age children will use blocks made from sugarcane-based polyethylene.

To be considered "megabrands", brands must have considerable equity and they must be able to transcend one category and "drive growth and efficiencies" across related product categories.

Some Mega Bloks sets are being made out of sugarcane-derived polyethylene. Mattel is incorporating biobased resins in its Mega Bloks toy line. Three building sets for preschool-age children will use blocks made from sugarcane-based polyethylene.

In 1967, Victor Bertrand and his wife Rita founded the company as Ritvik Holdings (RH). Ritvik is a portmanteau word based on a combination of Rita and Victor. At 1984 trade shows, Ritvik showed the Mega Bloks line in the US and Canada.

There is no denying that both brands have high-quality products. That's why they're the number 1 and number 2 in the brick building world - you don't get there by accident. But it's fair to say LEGO will always have an edge on build quality because they've been doing it for so long.

Lego and Mega Bloks have inspired an entire subculture of fascinating designs built with their plastic building blocks. While Lego bricks are more expensive, they are usually considered to be higher quality. Some of the building blocks from the two brands are compatible.

But Mega Bloks still put out a high-quality product, it's just not quite as premium as LEGO. Still, they bring a lot of unique elements to their builds like metallic bricks, etc., so despite the quality not being quite as good, they do feel a little braver with their innovative ideas.

One key difference between the two is that LEGO blocks are designed to be more precise and tightly fitting than Mega Bloks. This means that LEGO blocks may be more suitable for building more complex structures that require a high level of stability, as they are less likely to come apart.

Contrary to what you may expect, the plastic bricks are twice as sturdy as concrete, the performance is optimized. The bricks consist of mixture of sand and plastics. The sand and plastic are mixed at very high temperatures and are then compressed into bricks.

Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene ABS (Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene) is the type of material we use to make the classic LEGO brick as well as LEGO DUPLO® bricks. ABS is a hard plastic, it's very scratch-resistant and is optimal for achieving the perfect clutch power!