I won't deny they're getting better, but frankly compared to say "legitimate" brands, they're still pretty bad. I think respectable indicates something that has more merits than what is essentially honesty. So yes I was probably being too harsh on the second line (of that quote), but the "kinda okay" of the "meh" isn't what i'd call "good"... If they made pieces that last, or had more pieces than an equivalent-priced LEGO product, I could understand the term respectable being tied to them. But at least in Australia, they aren't that much cheaper than LEGO sets, and well, the quality of plastic isn't even close; I've seen a fair few Mega Blocks been broken within a month, even some of the dodgiest Bionicle sets seemed to last much longer! They might portray the illusion of being a cheaper (but still good) product, and that's probably got more merit to it in other places, but really don't think they're a respectable brand. Not "the work of all that is evil" etc, but still not ...above average - unless of course you count bootlegs in your averaging process. Which is somewhat kind of like saying that your boat is overpriced because people manage to travel 1400km in one trip, never-minding the amount of people that have drowned between say, Indonesia & Christmas Island (which is a completely different topic!). It's really not the baseline you want to set for building a boat. And Bootlegs really shouldn't be the standard for legitimate brands, so yeah, I really don't see how Mega Blocks is above average... I'll just leave this here....