FAKE ALIEXPRESS LEGO REVIEW - Is It Really That Bad?

[@SovietSquib]

Why tf didnt you show the finished build????

[@sinanfadi1841]

bcz its good

[@Canuckle19]

We'd like to see the full build obviously, c'mon

[@sinanfadi1841]

its too good thats why

[@rawwad]

why not showing the whole product? your review then feels same fake as that fake lego.

[@MannoulaZ]

Exactly

[@cyranantone8430]

Your fake English is worse

[@cardboard_cave]

I was stunned that I watched 2 videos about this on the channel and neither showed what it actually looks like! 😂

[@norijean3279]

The final video of this build will drop some time next year. Such builds take time, you know...

[@yzxz9012]

This video its legit the same that he made with this set

[@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.

[@gaveintothedarkness]

Agree 100% - lego isnt making this kit, so the only people it hurts in terms of $$ is all the greedy resellers.

[@3HR3NGR4B]

I should have bought many LEGO 6086 sets and sold them 30 years later^^ 😂

[@northeast7412]

Luv all the KO brands out there, a tenth of the price of some of the new sets, yup the instruction manuals can sometimes be a little off with their colours, sometimes replacing dark purple with blue pieces etc, but overall the KO sets are a much better option especially with the over priced LEGO sets, I for one avoid buying actual LEGO sets at all costs. Order sometimes 4 or 5 sets from China at a time and usually get them all for under the cost of just one LEGO set. Recent purchases were Optimus prime, Simpsons house, up house, the large green lambo technic kit and ghost buster car, all for under £150 total including shipping from China to U.K., absolute bargain and not a single piece missing, all look and feel top notch, just waiting to build my forth ucs millennium falcon set from China, previously sold my other ones for more than double what I paid for them locally. Some people don’t like taking a risk buying from China, don’t know why, I’ve never had any issues, if anything if I ever have a problem and contact the sellers they usually just fully refund you or send out another complete set free of charge. Unlike buying anything from U.K. where customer services usually try give you the run around for weeks at a time and then make you jump threw so many hurdles you end up feeling like giving up. Everywhere should start taking a leaf out of the Chinese consumer market and price things accordingly and treat customers with the respect they are due. Love the Chinese market. Long May they continue to give excellent value for money.

[@Daddyvader7]

@@gaveintothedarknessNot even greedy. It’s called a niche in the market. If Lego isn’t making a set the custom market takes over, if people want the same Lego set but cheap, for display ONLY, that’s GREAT. People who want pure Lego and to collect, buy Lego!

[@udomino]

I agree to you on a lot of points. But: The quality control of LEGO has gone down a lot. There are many problems with the colors of the bricks. My yellow Fiat 500 had at least 8 different shapes of yellow. Customers are reporting their problems with a lot of other sets. Reason for this is that LEGO has decided to color the base material on their own to save some money instead to buy the consistent already colored plastic granulat as before. Maybe you heard of Gobricks, this manufacturer produces the best bricks on the market. The price for LEGO sets have been increased a lot to help the billionaires in Billund with their financial problems. 30% higher prices are not caused by the world wide inflation, this is rip-off. Regarding long-term maintenance of value of the sets: It is not corrrect that it is possible to buy sets from chinese manufacturer many years after their release date, since they only sell them as long as there is a custumer's demand. And then you will also have to buy on ebay.

[@maszkalman3676]

Exactly!!!! there are even problems with the technic pieces i bought the bugatty bolide the two main yellow part is not the same color it has a moving engine which only moves forward and grinding you can't even push backwards the gears completely brake the car oh and i had 2 pin pieces missing luckily older bionicle sets had those which i collect and those are even more horribly overpriced on the market....

[@BrokenRecord11943]

I feel like the mini figs should be able to be bought and placed in the diner. It’s crazy much re sellers are asking. For me I would buy the knockoff set and buy official mini figs

[@DaGoldSheep]

same

[@3HR3NGR4B]

The Price of this Fake LEGO Building is like it was back in the 90s for me^^ -> This Fake isn't really that cheap but much cheaper than LEGO is today... 🤷‍♂

[@InteloPL]

1. If you buy LEGO sets to just warn on them - you're part of the problem. 2. You did not show a lot of the final product. Not cool. 3. Figures can be bought outside of the set.

[@raretype3979]

u literally didnt show the final build lol

[@thiagopaes7404]

Guy just made the same video twice

[@chriswhite5665]

I think the ethical side of giving money to a company that did not have to incur the design and development costs is mostly negated when it's a retired product. The only other option is to buy the official product on the second-hand market, in which case Lego would still not make any money, so you're not really stealing from them. Lego choose not to make this money by only offering products for a restricted time - that's their problem (and a decision that has complex economic reasoning behind it), but not our problem. The ethical argument is completely different for active products. I'd have no reservations against buying retired products in this way if the quality is decent. Thanks for the review.

[@gaveintothedarkness]

And you get the realized benefit of screwing over some resellers and their price gouging.

[@JayVR3434]

I dont buy to collect i buy to interact with...lego acts like they made of gold...i brought set for 45 dollars total! And wow looka gggrrreeaattt!

[@lisamcgee8535]

Did you finish the build? Why not put it side by side the finished product and lets see the differences? = =

[@bjornroeven7343]

I collect the Lego skylines, but just for displaying them. The ones that aren’t sold anymore go up to 250 euros. The Ali ones around 20 so if I want one that isn’t around anymore I buy the Ali ones. They look pretty good. You can see the difference, but not as much that I wouldn’t accept them.

[@jeffc4862]

As an 'old school' Lego collector, I remember the days before the numbered bags, so I have no issue with how everything is packaged. Also as a long time collector, the whole 'investor' market sucked the fun out of collecting older sets that were once very reasonably priced on sites like Ebay. Reality - the knock off copies are perfectly fine for 'build and display' collectors, and noting the price, I have no complaints. That said, companies like FunWhole and Pantasy are now offering models that are 100% comparable to Lego for infinitely better prices.

[@MrTomemac]

For hands on these just take the hand and have it take a lightsaber hilt or blade, then use that as leverage to attach the hand to the arm. It’s painless and secures the hand in place. The arms need to be placed and replaced a few times which isn’t bad. Move the right arm forward in relation to the torso and attach and replace, this hurts less and lets you use the length of the arm as leverage. For the left arm move the arm back in relation to the torso and do the same. I know it’s a lot to do but taking care of these requires just a bit more steps. Overall considering the savings these minor quirks are easy to put up with. If LEGO is beyond your budget these are decent enough. Looking at them as their own thing and not constantly comparing them to LEGO is also helpful. You know what you’re buying so why compare? If it bothers you just save up more and get LEGO but for the cash, you’re getting so much less plastic, specially for retired sets. And be honest how easily or frequently are most folk going to be reselling LEGO anyway? Love your wallet more and save substantially on these.

[@yadabub]

It's much easier to insert the hands into the arms *before* attaching the arms to the torso. That rotation that you get from the shoulder joint doesn't seem like it would make much of a difference, but it really does. I've not broken a single hand since switching to 'hands first.' Nor does it ever take me more than one try to install the hands, no matter how tight they are.

[@GeneralSturnn]

If Lego stopped chasing trends and went back to their own IP's, kept the prices reasonable, I'd happily buy from them.

[@WizardOfOss]

Great video! As much as I like Lego (well, the product, surely not the company), I have tried several other brands too. And mostly good experiences, even more so considering the low prices. That said, so far I stayed away from true knockoffs. I have bought one set of which I later found out that it's heavily inspired by a (rejected) Ideas submission, and honestly, I have more issue with them stealing from MOC designers (Mould King....) than copying sets Lego themselves aren't selling anymore. And sure, often you can see where they cut a few corners. But then again, Lego is cutting a lot of corners their own way, even when the prices keep going up. And ongoing quality issues are a lot harder to swallow at those inflated prices.... My favorite "fake" brand so far is Loz, even when their bricks are 25% smaller and thus not compatible. But they do have a lot of nice set designs (the small Chinese and Japanese houses!), and they even have a few unique parts. One of which Lego recently straight up copied: the 1x1x2/3 "Baby D SNOT" piece...

[@marcodoyle4436]

Pro tip: check out the shipping options. Sometimes you might be able to pay 5 dollars more to receive it in a week instead of a month and a half.

[@NoLimitJoseph]

I have one from AliExpress that I ordered back on October 27fh and it’s November 17th and no tracking was updated am I being scammed or ? It was supposed to deliver between the 10th-17th

[@marcodoyle4436]

@@NoLimitJoseph it's likely on its way has happened to me before

[@jasonmonks8423]

​@@NoLimitJosephany update?

[@NoLimitJoseph]

@@jasonmonks8423 it came after awhile solid build but had some problems with a piece or two still love it tho one of my favorite sets

[@jasonmonks8423]

@@NoLimitJoseph glad to hear it! I'm looking at lepin myself and their quality does seem to be on par with lego

[@strider8140]

I used to love Lego as a kid, but now days every time I see a set I am interested in I see how overpriced it is. I'm not going to spend 100+ dollars on something that's going to take me 20 minutes to build and then that's it.

[@michaelronan-g6s]

for people wondering why he didnt show the full build, its cus the final build was too good which would ruin the point of the video: that these fakes are "bad" when in reality they are basically identical.

[@MrTalhakhan01]

where is the full build?

[@lf9179]

Well knock off lego's aren't that bad anymore. And since lego's licence patent ended a few years ago it's technically not illegal to make knock off's. I recently bought the 2016 Ninjago dieselnaut as an aliexpress knockoff. Because i didn't feel like buying it for 250. And holy shit. It looks so good and so real. The plastic quality on that set is good aswell. Only the knock off stickers are pretty crappy. But honestly even the knock off sets are really good. So if you have less money to spend, or looking for an older discontinued set and don't normally care about buying fake lego, aliexpress is your ebst friend

[@Kuchenwurst]

While the patent for the brick system is long expired, the designs of lego sets isn't. They're copyrighted, so you must be aware that you're buying a pirated product. Morally, there's nothing wrong with buying different brands who design their own sets, but brands using stolen designs are a different story. Everyone will need to sort this out with themselves.

[@lf9179]

@@Kuchenwurst Ah thats right. Never thought of that before. But sometimes lego doesn't leave us with another choice unfortunately some knock off's are 4x cheaper then the real sets. Or the real sets are already expired

[@Kuchenwurst]

@@lf9179 There's always a choice! There's three options to choose from here: 1. Don't buy the set at all. 2. Cough up the inflated prices for a used Lego set. 3. Buy a reproduction set by a foreign manufacturer. The choice, with its consequences, is up to everyone who's interested in a particular set that's off the market already. :)

[@realitycheck908]

Dude are you for real 🤣 this guy prob watches the adblocker and sweating at the download button

[@raonoodle]

Imagine relativising morality on the act of buying knockoff Lego sets instead of shilling out obscene amounts of money on overpriced, USED and DISCONTINUED legit ones because "piracy". The argument makes zero sense. Lego isn't going to make a single penny from sales of discontinued sets on the second hand market; the only ones who stand to lose anything are the "collectors" selling them for absurd prices, and even then not really, because nobody in their right mind would be willing to pay what they ask for anyway except for their fellow brand fanboys. Besides, Lego's been making slop nowadays anyway, that much is made clear in the minifigure department for stuff like Star Wars. Compare a Koruit clone trooper Fives with Lego's (wholly inaccurate) version of him they released this month with the Tantive IV hallway set; it's staggering how much better the knockoff is, and it has been in the market for a little over a year now. Lego had all the time to look at it and make something better but no, let's half ass it. The only good thing about it is the head piece and that's it. Prolly the only reason anyone will even want to get it in the first place.

[@grant666uk]

I'm in the UK and Aliexpress have really upped there game. Last five huge sets have got to me in under 7 days.

[@DigitalMangoShake]

I trying to complete the modular building series using knock offs. Aside from the missing Lego logo and wonky prints, the qaulity of these knock offs are really good.

[@northeast7412]

Luv all the cheaper building bricks sets from China, sets are fantastic and much much more affordable and a more realistic price for a toy, haven’t bought any original LEGO sets for years now, purely down to the price LEGO charges, recently bought the new Optimus prime from alli express for under £20 including shipping from China to U.K., far far better than the £150 price tag for the LEGO set, and to be honest can’t really tell any difference with the finished model. LEGO needs to either reduce their prices significantly or they will go under.

[@DOCDOCFLAMINGOS]

Ummmmmm.... Just my 3¢..... BUT.. As others have mentioned this video seems no different then the first one !!??.... And we didn't get to see anymore of the build!!... Let alone not even seeing the completed building?!?! Now after two videos stinging us along, I have no interest in looking for and watching a 3rd one ...or any other videos at all honestly!!??!!.... Major bummer!!

[@queencarmilla5625]

I've bought many AliExpress mini figures and structures I've rarely had any problems with them. And the mini figures can be much better depending on the seller.

[@DaGoldSheep]

this is very true

[@rattiom]

Did you even finish the build?

[@JustAPersonWhoComments]

Where’s the completed build?

[@Darkray3479]

Well there's 10 minutes of my life I'll never get back

[@JohnSmith-kf8mv]

Just buy your own base plate if you get a warped one - what I did when I bought this exact set.

[@DaGoldSheep]

same with me as well

[@NoLimitJoseph]

Can you send a link from where you bought it

[@captain3186]

I have the Ghostbusters Firehouse by LEPIN. Ive had it a couple years now. Think I paid $150? I had no show stopping issue building it. 2 mis-formed blocks and 2? minor missing pieces. I was able to track down what I needed on Bricklink and pop them in. You cannot tell looking at the completed Firehouse which Red/Gray Blocks are Fake and which are the Lego the color is that close. The way I see it, LEGO retired the product. They weren't offering me a Product to buy from them. eBay Re-sellers were to the moon with pricing. I just wanted a Shelf/Display piece and the fun of building it. So.... Knock Off it was. No Regrets. It's aged just as well as the rest of my large LEGO sets minus the increase in value.

[@elihelms9529]

It’s weird having a knockoff set get a high score for quality

[@tasty_fish]

Genuine Lego is an absolute rip-off. I get they have to research and design stuff but really?

[@SebsProductions21]

Did the whole set arrive ? Can you show the whole set one day

[@brandonhicks9926]

I guess I’m a crazy person because when I build legos, I actually open all the bags at once, pour them into a pile and search through the pieces during the build

[@aboomer420]

this is what I did as a kid but now I use a set of 3 bowls for small, medium and large pieces

[@brandonhicks9926]

@@aboomer420 to be fair though if I can ever afford a set with a ton more pieces, I probably wouldn’t do it

[@probablychuuni]

That's workable for smaller builds at maybe

[@The_Random_Youtuber]

i did notice sometimes, these fake legos are better quality than actual legos.

[@yandrax5355]

Fun fact you can buy it at a physical store

[@sweatybattlefrontplayer715]

store name?

[@vascovalente3929]

Fake videos, only builds the first few pieces with no info from the completed product.

[@DB-zp9un]

For still in production and available at LEGO I say you should really, really try to buy from LEGO.. But after they are retired, all bets are off IMO..

[@Barweerlegoalternativebricks]

Any sites that you will recommend for the knockoff sets? How can I contact you, I want to buy.

[@smolbean3273]

PS: My previous comment only applies to sets that are just right below or above $100, it does not apply to sets that are $20-$70

[@nf9563]

Did you even finish the thing? Weird visuals for a very adequately narrated video

[@DaniFewell]

The video is the same :(

[@lith187]

bro said lego has the hightest qc in the game 💀💀💀💀💀thats crazy

[@Ice-Qube]

I've build non LEGO and it was a mess. It really sucks how the pieces don't really snap together. You called it harder fit but it's just the tolerances that are way worse. LEGO has very low tolerances so they'll always fit together even with pieces from 60 years go! Also you call it paint multiple times but LEGO isn't painted. The Plastic get's pigmented so there is no paint involved. You could say the surface texture and Color is similar but for someone who knows LEGO it's definitely a different feeling.

[@Hilqy]

bro still didnt finish the set lol

[@abdulkadir1990]

why do people still think lego is the brand with best brick quality. when it is dev. not. im pretty sure the fake is just appearing that good because lego just became so bad.

[@nouche]

This can be found genuine for not so crazy prices on Bricklink, I have found. Not exactly cheap, but not insane aftermarket prices either, it’s basically release price. I can find it for between two and three hundred dollars. There’s used ones from China for $208, or new for $227. Not that bad.

[@LutraLovegood]

What's the likelihood of the ones from China being fakes though?

[@maszkalman3676]

Yeah tose are not genuine lego.... 95% sure....

[@ExtremeShez]

Did you pay any extra taxes?

[@vncubers]

hi, may I ask you to review my Moc? How do I contact you to discuss about it?

[@smolbean3273]

Great video👏 do you think this same level of good could be applied to other knockoff sets, such as the 2013 75021 version of the Republic Gunship??:^ now OBVIOUSLY this is gonna vary wildly from purchase to purchase:~ as someone who isn’t big enough of a lego fan to want to get official versions of retired sets (still like LEGO just not willing to pay over $400+ for friggin LEGO😓😓) this isn’t really much of a concern for me though I do understand where genuine LEGO stands are coming from😌 and if they wanna go broke buying these insanely expensive retired sets for amounts that I would never feel comfortable with on a regular basis more power to them:3 I hope that this video answered some of my concerns with 3rd party/knockoff LEGO🙃

[@anomalychasing5383]

Hope you dont mind me butting in - but Im bored. If I could show you pics Youd not notice the difference. I have HUGE sets from Ali Express (Im in Australia) The biggest is Titanic - 10294 Cost me $200 and its brick for brick identical - But no fancy book or box - Just decent instructions (theyre really pretty good) and the bags are numbered well just like real LEGO in a big brown box. - I don't have 75021 but I have the globe, the 10300 Delorean the huge orange $(40), the Porssch 42096 ($40), the Orange Huge F1and several others. They all come EXACT brick-wise with all the little tools and quality printed bricks and stickers. Only thing is watch some items - Stickers can be Cheeky like DUBAGITI instead of BUGATTI - Id Take the plunge. Edit - forgot - my fave was the Atari 2600 for $80. It blew me away - all the extra little models, the little guy inside - All perfect - It blows people away.

[@nbcosta]

@@anomalychasing5383 i'm interested in buying the globe, do you have a link on ali?

[@iceydemp2370]

Could you recommend me a seller for the death star 1?

[@Eshanas]

I thought these guys were taken down? For bricks alone I wouldn’t mind it I guess but it’s hard as heck to even find a store for it. I mostly just have knock off baseplates, myself

[@petrak.1048]

I think it's ok if I can buy a copy from China of models that have gone EOL and are only being sold at fantastic prices. In China I get the model at a good price and I have fun building it. Thanks for showing.

[@medicalmelonplayground3660]

First, and also great video!❤

[@fishingnuke9331]

Thanks for showing the build! Awesome review!

[@KingElmo83]

Lego quality control is the best? They ain’t able to to get bricks in the same color 😂

[@inan1532]

I have the real set and it's sooooooo beautiful and cool 😊

[@tudu_ab]

Really like this .

[@SheepiTheSheep]

did you quit youtube?

[@MannoulaZ]

No he did not

[@SheepiTheSheep]

@@MannoulaZ Why hasnt there been a vid in 6 months

[@MannoulaZ]

@@SheepiTheSheep does it look like I know

[@heavyseal76]

Why would this be illegal to sell?

[@MegaBadgeman]

While it's not called Lego it's just so similar, especially the way these copies are branded i.e the colours and typefaces used in their logos . I can't see how a seller could possibly avoid any legal consequences arising no matter what step they took.

[@ikarus007]

make more bruh i wait :D

[@ryengametime1003]

👍🏿 😊

[@quinn6021]

'promosm'

[@tooxtalivai0690]

No resale value who cares most folks who buy these aren’t selling on

[@BetheBrick]

hi, may I ask you to review my Moc? How do I contact you to discuss about it?