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The patent in the Lego-style interlocking plastic brick ran our some time ago. Lots of Chinese companies moved in to cater to the adult building audience, and sells them on Amazon & eBay.
One company makes a complete 1-to-1 knock off of the Lego Wall-E set, for instance. It has everything but the Lego logo on the box. It's a quality set made to high standards.
Blue Brixx in Germany is a little dIfferent. They have Chinese manufacturinf ties, and sells their own & Chinese brands. They produce hundreds of original sets in many categories (with full color packaging and printed building instruction booklets), but also knock off genre properties like James Bond, Alien, Stargate, 5th Element, Space:1999, Akira, and Blade Runner with generic names, brown-box packaging, and download-only building instructions.
They have a chain of brick&mortar stores across Germany.
And they also have 80-some officially licensed Star Trek kits (ostensibly only for sale in Germany, but they ship internationally). All their kits are high quality, and when I was missing a packet of pieces to a ST kit, they sent replacements.
Lego created the brick, but is no longer the only source for qualiry brick building (esp for genre properties that aren't Star Wars).
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