Fake Chinese Lego Unboxing - Is It Really That Bad?

[BrickBusiness]

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[seer]

To me this seems like the ideal gift a parent of a low income household that cannot afford big lego sets could give to their child that wants lego.

[oscarr]

I appreciate this review being really honest and not snobby at all. Not everyone can access or afford the real deal but being careful about what fake products to buy is a good idea too.

[RCH]

Bricks aren’t “painted” btw. It’s the colour of the plastic.
I’ve looked at a lot of these cheaper sets recently and considered trying them.

This diner is one set I’ve always wanted, but refuse to pay the crazy prices they fetch now!
I might get one of these to try it!

[bellissimo]

LEGO has by no means a monopoly on good quality anymore. And 250 bucks for a house like that is already too much in my books anyway. In the last few years, I encountered several LEGO sets that I gave to kids of friends that had surprisingly bad quality bricks; like some Harry Potter books, or the Christmas Tree set. I am now also checking out all the alternative options all the time (Cobi, Cada, Bluebrixx etc.).

[mysty]

I can’t drop 700 dollars on some Lego but I just want to make a Lego city so I like the off brand because there not so overpriced

[NingjaTerdo]

The biggest thing that sets off-brand to official for me is the baseplate. I have noticed that the lower quality baseplates curl up at the corners after some time. You definitely notice them more when moving around the Modular’s in my city. The official sets are flush to the bottom and the non-official sets wobble slightly. Definitely means a quality difference.

[mikefreyr]

LEGO is pricing itself out of the market, new sets are becoming ever more expensive and older sets are impossible to collect on a "budget". I couldn't care less if an old set is a copy and if LEGO does, they should have done a reissue.

[OlivierRoux-nz]

The reason the set is cheap is not that "they got rid of the less important stuff" like packaging, it's that they stole the design and didn't have to pay a designer team for 3 months to come up with it.

[Smudgie]

I purchased the first 5 building Modulars when I first got back into Lego as an adult as those has already been retired and it was a positive experience. All the pieces were there and it all fitted together great. I have them displayed along with original Lego sets together and you can not tell the difference looking at them. Of course I would have love Lego original sets but I could not afford the £2500+ price tag. Instead I paid less than £250 for all five.

[tutssweet]

I've bought two off-brand sets -- this and the Cinema Palace.Both were very good. The only minor quibbles are a few pieces don't quite fit properly, the minifig heads are sometimes a bit too loose, and I was missing a couple of minor pieces in each set. But with a nice big bucket of spare parts, it wasn't a big deal as they were common tiles and not specialty pieces.

[LordDavid]

What do you mean no dead giveaways on the baseplate? Aside from the obvious non Lego printing, there's those studs with the ring inside.

[d.k]

Lego has just gone too far in their pricing, in the 2000s you could get a a big ass set for 100, - max. nowadays you'd get a small set with a car and a building for that price

[WiiPetUwU]

I ordered the 21335 lighthouse for about 80€ on Ali. And what should I say, I am really impressed. Lego asks for 300€ and there is definitely not a 220€ Quality difference.
For about 30€ extra I ordered a lighting upgrade that No Lego set could compete with.

I only have minor complaints. Some transparent Bricks are scratched. The figures are not so well printed. And the White colour is slightly diffrent between the bricks.

If Chinese producers would decide to not stick to legos way and improve: Swap out the battery box for a recharabel one, fix the awful noisy motor, etc. They could even deliver a better set than lego for a fraction of the cost....

[nouche]

I think the easiest way to spot the fake really is the fact that the normal studs on top of most pieces are missing the raised “LEGO” label/logo

[Jia]

It's not bad, imo. If you're a collector and can afford to collect it, then obviously buy from Lego.
But if you just like the design, want to build, and can't afford the legit set, there's nothing bad about getting these "fake" ones.

[eye]

Building bricks are injection moulded so for the most part there is no "paint", that is the color of the brick.
Also the patents on the brick shapes and colors have expired about 2-3 decades ago, the only thing that off-brand brick makers can't do is use the LEGO branding on the studs.
The minifig style is copyrighted though so third party sets will often come with goofy looking mini figures if there are any included.

[OptimusSatanas]

Dont use the word superior when you follow up the sentence by saying its not as good as lego. The definition of superior means better than everything else.

[agentLT]

i remember building the back to the future delorean with over 1800 pieces, and there were no numbered bags. I finished it in two weeks

[SKAR__FOX]

I'm pretty sure any lego collector could tell you that baseplate is fake haha