Not wanting Lego to have all the money, er, fun, Mattel introduced its own line of build-it-yourself model cars last year. Mattel is well acquainted with the world of automotive scale models, as one ...

Mattel has finally stopped pretending Lego does not exist. With Brick Shop, it steps into Lego’s space literally and figuratively, but without copying Lego’s playbook. These are construction sets, but ...