You are analyzing ONE sample, ONE set, outta the thousands sold. No method on your "research". And I pretty much believe you altered parts to make it look worst. I've bought several Lepin stuff and they are all fine. This BS nitpicking to gain views and Likes from dumb "purists". BTW, I have a fucking Poe Dameron, the helmet is IDENTICAL to legit lego. What a dishonest review -_- grow some balls, dude
+Fett Nerd of course I am analyzing one sample and one set. I am not going to be buying 100 sets from lepin of the xwing to compare for you. I am not nitpicking. I am trying to be thorough and detailed in my review for my viewers. I didn't deliberately make it worse lol.
Fett Nerd grow some balls? Are you for real? It's Lego..... relax. So triggered. Great video by the way man :-) ignore the hate from people who are just too lazy to do a video review themselves and just want to criticize. And not even constructively/productively. Shame really.
I have the same set and it came with the same missing piece, the pieces were brittle and discolored and the instruction booklet had a page in blank, which was really annoying. I believe he didn't alter anything, you're just a cheap ass buy a *REAL* Lego set.
Anyone MENTIONS Lego knock offs I go running out throwing up and crying. Any one has a Lego knock off set. i burn it using the heat from my heart because it made me a cold, dead hearted demon.
As much as I LOVE Lego, I can't afford the sets currently. I have to pay insurance, car payments, gas etc. Lepin is the only way I can have the same amount of fun for a reasonable price.
I've built many a Lego set, and recently built a Megabloks Space Shuttle - there is a HUGE difference in brick quality. The Megabloks set was well designed and thought out, it looks cool and has some really neat functions - but some blocks don't work well and all of them are considerably more difficult to put together than Lego bricks.
Evan Helms yeah, I haven't bought a legit lego set in a long time but then a legit lego set is really expensive like the Death Star is around RM1800 which is around 400$ more or less and a knockoff is like 100$ more or less which is a real price difference and I'm not rich to afford a legit one
Lego has 2 options, make their prices much closer to the fake products, which would result in higher sales, but lower amounts of money, or gradually increase the price, causing almost sales but more money
stoopid apples Lego is still making a lot of money and by the looks of the butthurt Lego Fanboys, they aren't going to lower down their prices at this rate any time soon
Muhammad haziq You are forgetting that Lego has to pay the designers who painstakingly perfect each set, pay for the licenses to sell star wars branded sets, pay for higher quality materials and a manufacturing process with much tighter tolerance than that used by lepin. Lepin does not pay designers, they do not possess the necessary licenses and, as evidenced by the video has no quality control. You get what you pay for, and if what you pay for is lepin, you get lepins shitty quality.
That's right. Lepin proves that Lego doesn't have a large marginal cost, otherwise Lepin wouldn't be so cheap. So why Lego is so fucking expensive is totally to do with Disney. Then again, companies do need to make their money back somehow, but sets seem to be getting smaller and more expensive, so we as the consumers aren't getting much in value. Just look at the re-releases and redesigns of the MTT, AAT, Clone tank and the Imperial Star Destroyer. They're almost 50% smaller in detail and pieces yet they're double the price. 7679-1 Republic Fighter Tank from 2008 had room for 2 clones (also included), a back hatch, a top hatch with a rotatable turret and it was significantly big. The 2017 version was probably close to 60% smaller, room for ONE clone, no back hatch nor top hatch with rotatable turret and was highly insignificant ( *This image is a comparison* i.ytimg.com/vi/MkgqyAwjh1o/maxresdefault.jpg) Yet the smaller set actually costs more than the bigger set did. Lego downsized plentiful over the years, yet they've been charging higher with lower marginal costs on products. Lego is a rip off, the only thing I've got in the last 10 years was the FO Star Destroyer, which has a few flaws compared to the MVP Star Destroyer from the early 2000s (the F0-SD has shitty turrets). If Lego was actually fair, they wouldn't have competition with bootleggers.
@LegionaryWithAGladius Most of the cost comes from design cost, sales incline, and quality manufacturing cost. LEPIN doesn't have as good quality as LEGO, and LEGO designs the sets, LEPIN justs copies them. LEPIN probably doesn't pay their workers much either.
As a child, I wanted for christmas some Lego sets, Lego was my passion. Now that I'm much older (earning my own money) I have to say that Lego is far to expansive. I would like to buy some of the big special sets, but I don´t want to pay such a high price. Don´t get me wrong; I don´t support Lepin, but I have to say, that some diversity would be great (espacially for the prices).
That is, in my opinion, a very comprehensive comparison. I think that the shortfallings of the Lepin set are somewhat forgivable. The missing piece can be sourced per your instructions & when you tried the genuine canopy on the fake kit, it did fit perfectly. One has to wonder if a little shaving & shaping would allow the canopy to close further?
Honestly I'm more convinced to buy lepin than anything else. I don't understand how they did a "mediocre" job, the price different more than makes up for it in my opinion. I think I'll stick with lego for most of my figures, but I'm definetely going to seek out some lepin to get vehicles and bricks.
Lepid (and the like) doesn't have the same job to do, which is why they can make something close for so little. They don't have to pay the licensing fee for the Star Wars name, they don't have to pay the development team to design the model, they don't have to pay the marketing costs to introduce the products, etc. They just sit back and wait for Lego to release it, then make copies, produce and put it up on Aliexpress. Of course they can do a decent job for much less. Lego won their lawsuit against Lepin. Others seem to have taken their place. Buying from them is just as bad as buying from the back of a truck in a sketchy neighborhood knowing that the sellers stole the product.
Yes, Lego is expensive, but that's because they produce high quality products. Lepin and other knockoff companies just straight up STEAL Lego's designs. That's just straight up messed up. Please, everyone out there, support the company that ACTUALLY comes up with these fantastic toys.
Jacob Henrie-Naffaa Lego steals from themselves and raises the price for shittier remade sets. Maybe a father wants to get his son a Lego death star but he doesn't have $500 to blow. Everything has a niche.
William F wtf do u mean they steal from themselves. They remake stuff so its more accessible after they are retired so buyers dont have to go on ebay and buy for way more money. And your thing about the death star isn't right either because that's just what the Lego death star costs. Buy a cheaper set. You want a big death star? It's 500 bucks. Thats just the way it goes.
Jacob Henrie-Naffaa Way to be a corporate slave. There's no justifiable reason to charge children or parents so much money for a building toy. I don't how old or autistic you are but back in the 90s and early 2000s Legos were far more cheap and accessible because it wasn't devoted to losers and a franchises. Get a job and a family and then tell me it's okay to drop a weeks worth of work for a toy that isn't even as cool as the older ones. Plus lego's releases can be terrible. More money for less pieces.
William F you're speaking as if you HAVE to buy a set. You really don't. If you don't like a set, don't buy it. If you can't afford a set, don't buy it. Liscenced LEGO sets cost so much because they have to pay for the liscence itself, (Disney in particular charges a lot), and they have to pay designers, and graphics teams to actually make a product. Knockoff companies dont have any of those expenses. Having an appreciation for a great company that makes really good products doesn't make me a corporate slave. I dont buy every LEGO set ever. I just buy ones that I really want. If I want a big expensive one, I save up. A parent doesn't HAVE to buy his kid a death star, he could get him maybe Luke's Landspeeder, which is only 20 bucks. [Edit] why the fuck are you just throwing around autistic like it makes you superior. Jesus man. What the fuck is wrong with you
Lego charges way too much for what it is, it used to be way cheaper and prices keep on going up. It's bad that people infringe on Lego copyright but if another company can make Lego products cheaper and legally (legal because sketchy Chinese copyright laws) than it is normal that people would buy the cheaper one. It doesn't make sense to get so pissed about people buying knock offs, it is not rly going to hurt Lego very much if some people who couldn't afford Lego anyways bought a cheaper knock off. With these things you get what you pay for, buying a knock off you should expect things to not be the best quality.
Anything but LEGO is advantageous as long as "perfection" is not sought after in the sets. Besides LEPIN, there are many LE(etc) (LELE, LESPI, LEKO, etc) sets in CHINA. The China market is mainly focused on satisfying the gratification needs of the population over there and passion is not the main focus over there. It's like buying a ROLEX watch from Switzerland or a ROLEK watch from Thailand. They both work just fine - basically tell time. The only difference is on cost in excess of US$10,000 and the other is under US$100. One last pretty much the buyer's lifetime and the other no more than 12 months. With a price tag of US$100, you can buy 100 ROLEK which will also last you your lifetime.
I was until the price skyrocketed, I was on wish and saw a set that I had always wanted but it's $500 but on wish it was $120, I have about 1200 worth of Legos from my childhood but the sets I always wanted I could never buy so lepin might make it so i can
Only positive point is the instruction manual from Lepin owns 100% using less paper is excellent . A big shame to a big society such as Lego not using less paper for their instruction manuals it should also make their sets 5€ cheaper imo .
I'm guessing that the main reasons that Lepin is so much cheaper are 1. They don't pay for the franchise licenses, and don't have to come up with their own ideas. 2. They probably use oil-based ABS plastic. 3. They don't have nearly as good of quality control as LEGO. Having worked a job that involves designing molded plastic parts, the tolerances that LEGO maintains in their product is incredible, and I guarantee that they pay out the nose for the tooling for the molds. Additionally, after buying LEGO sets for almost 20 years, I have had only one LEGO set with a missing piece, and they replaced it for free. In fact, it could even have escaped while I was opening the bags.
Ive spent thousands on Lego over the years, but the prices are so high these days.. Low income families could never afford the mid to large size sets. (Though 25 years ago you could get a lot for your money.) I wouldnt buy a Lepin set that knocked of a currently available Lego set, but if they were to do say, the Ultimate Collectors Series Snowspeeder? I'd buy that in a flash. The original is $1000+ on Ebay..
@@drewlovelyhell4892 I agree that their prices, already quite high, are now verging on the luxury side, it's sad as Lego is a great intellectual development tool, that is now less accessible to low income families :/
There is a big price difference betwen $28 and $85, but I bet you could get the LEGO version for about $60 at some point when the price comes down. You could buy some original LEGO bricks/pieces from Brick Link, to replace those that aren't up to standard, and it would still come in a lot cheaper than the original LEGO set. That said, I don't think Lepin sets are worth the saving when it comes to LEGO sets that are still in production. Retired sets are a different matter, but I still would never purchase a Lepin set. LEGO sets retain a strong resale value, whereas a Lepin set is essentially worthless for resale.
I bought both this Resistance X-Wing and Poe's black and orange X-Wing for $60 each .... Poe's at Walmart, and the Resistance at Toys R Us, of all places! I stay clear of Toys R Us and their Lego markup usually, but I do check for sales there. They tend to mark up sets by $20 to $30 over Walmart, Amazon, Target, etc; however, they tend to have the biggest selection of any box stores. With Amazon now though, I wonder how much longer Toys R Us will be around. Sure I wait 2 days for my order, but I have found Lego sets on Amazon for up to 50% the cost Toys R Us wants for the same thing!
Bizniz - Lego sets are on sale all the time. Walmart and Toys R Us run sales on various sets frequently. Same with Amazon. I believe the Lego site itself has a 'Sale' page too. I have only bought 1 set from their site directly so I can't remember for sure now. But Walmart has Lego sets on sale weekly. I bought Poe's X-Wing for $60, regular $80 (also $80 or $90 at Toys R Us I believe) and I also found Krennic's shuttle there for $75, regular $90 or $100 I believe.
The rebels would have lost every single battle if they had been using those knock-offs. Missiles don´t fire, cockpit doesn´t close and engines are vibrating all over the place. You get (and deserve) what you pay for.
Louis Sykes Except from it is right to buy from Lego as they pay for these licenses plus all other associated costs in product development. Lepin does not. So you think it’s not right to buy a better quality product. Sure you need market competition but there’s mega blocks for that who come up with their own ideas and pay real people money to make them plus the associated license fees.
why would you pay 1300 euro for a lego set if you can buy if for 100 from leplin?ps leplin is not allway's good i buyed the 3 big star wars ships,the bigest wont fit at all
I'm a huge Lego fan, but in the last years they totally lost it pricing their products. I mean, I remember 10 years ago buying a Lego Indiana Jones set for $9. Today, that same set, $35. In the other hand, the same product by Lepin, $5. So yeah, Lepin is a good alternative if you're not rich lol
Kingsley It wasn't a question ! do you see any interrogation mark ? I just added something to his comment ! so all in all it was : " Depends on how much you want to spend and how much quality you need... and how much you earn" get it ?
I've got several Lepin sets and I hate how none of the bags are numbered. It took me a lot longer to build sets such as the Millineum Falcon when you don't know which bag is which. I end up dumping all to bags out and then catorgarize them in some boxes and bags, grey, yellow, black, small, large, bricks, plates, flats, etc...
Tbh, I would never ever purchase a Lepin "product". Even if theres a 40 dollar difference. The Only case of a Lepin purchase would be a Discontinued set. For example: The Imperial Flagship, on Bricklink costs 600 dollars Mint condition. But Lepins costs 70 dollars!!! And The Quality is the same, and soo is Build!
I'm still undecided about Lepin, I'm a big Lego fan and supporter but Lepin would literally be the only way I would be able to obtain some of the rarer more expensive Star wars UCS sets like the Millennium falcon (5000USD+) or the Super star destroyer (1000USD+). Still unsure if I'd buy a Lepin product.
By showing it, reporting about it in a positive way and buying that crap you are supporting a company that takes sales from Lego and forces them to make their sets even more expensive, or produce them in lesser quality.
Julian Rain If anything, it will make lego drop their prices. Lepin adds competition, forcing lego to want consumers to go back to them, therefore dropping prices (just like any market competition).
Julian Rain -- Lego will never lower quality. That's their obsession. They'll change scale, price, quantity, tie-ins, etc, but they'll never sacrifice quality.
Actually I recently bought a Lepin millénium falcon from aliexpress, it is just perfect, no piece missing and really good product no problem. And at 35 euros for the lepin vs 189 euros for the Lego here in France, choice was easy
Ethical issues with Lepin though-it's like if I bought a pack of 100 DVDs for $20, then recorded The Force Awakens onto each one, then sold each DVD for $20. Who deserves that money? Not me.
Just to add some information. In my place (Hong Kong), if you have missing pieces or non-functional pieces, you can contact the seller and they would provide you a service called "repair". All you have to do is send them a picture of what piece you are missing and you can collect the missing pieces a few days after your request. I am not sure about other places in China but i imagine they have something similar.
Good vid! This was especially great because you werent biased to any side so it was fair. And you didnt only point out bad points like other youtubers instead you did all good and bad points. Awesome vid loving this! Thanks for finally giving me an honest and fair review i rly wanted to know the difference! Have a great day!
Well you do get what you pay for. Lego has huge quality assurance measures to get their peices to be perfect. All bad molds get molten down and remolded but i think lepin doesnt "waste energy" on remolding bad peices they just remold the defective or completely broke one and its prolly cheaper plastic too.
the company stole the idea of the bricks from kiddicraft never actually bothered to patent them so lego stole the design made some minor tweaks and patented it
The hatch can be sanded down slightly on the corner to make it close. Missing peice is bad luck, seller should give you replacement or enough money back to buy part on bricklink. Engine thing can usually be solved by swaping around the 4 engines (swap really tight one with really loose one). The helmet is garbage, but you get what you pay for (you can buy the helmet for $2 on bricklink). Don't get why you say mediocre. Less than 1/4 the price, minor problem with 4 out of 700+ parts. Huh?
He probably bought it second hand. +Surprise kids Univers City It would be a minor cost, at most, around $5. (Edit: Just looked it up, it has a box, so he almost definitely bought second-hand)
Whenever I've bought from lego online they've always shipped the set in a two part cardboard box where the upper piece slides down over the lower. Its very sturdy, and the actual set-boxes are always in mint condition inside. I've only bought the more expensive sets online, so I can't say from experience what would happen with smaller sets. If I had to guess, I'd expect them to adhere to the same level of quality.
I don't know why people would risk buying Lepin when there is a veeeeeeeeeeerry good chance that it will be functionally disappointing. However, I would like it if Lego paid attention to the way Lepin is printing their instruction manuals. I am getting really sick of the oversized instruction manuals from Lego - and think that their instructions could be (AND SHOULD BE) greatly reduced. Not only would it save paper, but it will be less of a pain in the arse to store. When every single instruction manual is oversized, I end up having folders filled up with manuals in no time.
Will Moore I'm complaining about the Instruction Manuals being too large, and taking up too much paper. Surely reducing it would ALSO reduce cost, and not increase cost, don't you think?
Also they don't pay the designers who come up with those sets in the first place and the artists that make them look good. Because all of them work for LEGO. That alone should be reason enough to never buy knock-off LEGO sets, no matter how expensive LEGO may be. At least the money ends up where it is deserved.
Since anyone can (and many do) make lego style brick they're considered "off the shelf parts". In the USA you can't patent a product that anyone can make with off the shelf parts. Lepin definitely walks a fine line when it comes to trademark infringement ("Star Wars", etc), but since they don't actually call them star wars they're not technically breaking any laws (although "intent" is a consideration and a judge could rule on that). Additionally, since these are kits you build from scratch there's nothing illegal in providing instructions to build popular models as long as you don't use TM'd words, phrases or images (like original images of the X-Wing fighters from the movies, etc). I think they should move away from using Star Wnrs (or variants) in the Star Wars font style and call them space sets or something in an original font. While it is shady to copy lego models, it's not illegal.
You know over 50$ Lepin makes a pretty good deal for the slightly crappier quality and for the things it doesn't have I'm sure you can get it on bricklink for not even a dollar or 2 if max
I use to present at brick con every year, and sometimes, when I have to build a large scene, I would use mega blocks for all the bases, hide them under the surface.
+Surprise kids Univers City I assume that you think that this is a good product, because poor people cannot afford the proper Lego. But, buying these products promote slavery and other such attrocities to happen in China, so really, it does not help the poor. Just buy a $20 set, they can be just as fun as the larger $100 ones, and cost less than the pieces of dirt that are Lepin products
How does Lepin manage to continue existing when it plagourises Lego, creates poor quality products and leaves me with no sence it has the outstandingly high worker treatment record that Lego has
The word "Lego" never appears on one block that they make... They are not breaking the law. The copyrights explicitly state that "Lego" is identified on every block in the "design patent". Maybe if "Lego" put some of that money into legal protections, there wouldn't be so many knock-offs. Now, if they claimed to be "Lego", then they would be "counterfeits", and there would be a potential lawsuit. However, they are not claiming to be lego. Lego doesn't own the "blocks". They were invented before lego even existed.
Good to see a non one sided review, a lot of people just insult lepin without a valid argument, he provides reasons and examples, great review m8 (Lepin is the best way to go if you can't afford Lego)
Nice video I got a few "off brand" Lego sets for Christmas and wanted to do a video on how they are different!! Also I don't know if you watch my videos but I would like to challenge you to a Lego Face Off!!! Please message or e-mail me for details if your up for the challenge!!!
Kinda shocked that lego costs ~3x the amount of lepin. -1 for missing pieces( i have had plenty of missing pieces before from big sets, but more than likely lego comes with extra pieces ). Front hatch doesn't close. Figure visor is not clear. 3 negative points that imo could be fixed for less than 5$( factory wise). I wont be buying lepin, but it's pretty clear that lego bricks aren't that hard to reproduce at a low cost.
Optic Squad You? You mean Lego? Lego can't because Lepin is in China. The Chinese don't have copyright laws that are in line with the West. That is why knock offs run rampant there.
sound more like a manufacturing issue as in hatch shape ended up 0.5-1 mm off its "handle" connection thing and all this "tight fit" thing goes to hell it may have failed too cool fast enough, got bent when unmolding, etc etc. even on super precise conveyor line things can go a tiny bit off, and they are in alowed margin
Yup, had exactly this issue with the Lepin hatch. The hinge was 0.5mm off due to the plastic not being stiff enough during umolding and therefore bending before cooling. 5s with a heatgun solved this problem.
2:53 the X-wing is blue so the blue rubber bands don't really bug me, the blue rubber bands blend in pretty better in my opinion , because they are blue and the most of the ship is blue as well, so that dos not really bug me , Legos one is much better in all ways.
when you buy something, you want the best value per dollar. something that's 30% better for 4x the price has less value per dollar. lego may be nice, but its fucking expensive mate
Allot of Lepin supporters forget they are cheap cause they don't hire people to make sets from scratch. The huge price mark up should be obvious. LEGO isn't making 80% profit. The prices are the way they are because everything is done for them (and they're chinese). The design, how to build it, marketing/advertising, quality control, getting patents and liscences from Disney, Marvel, etc. is an overhead you aren't getting with Lepin for sure. This is why those theives sell it easier. All they have to do is make and copy plastic pieces. By prefering Lepin, you are indirectly causing harm to the people at LEGO who make an honest living.
I have a lepin x-wing, all of the problems that you point out in the video aren't there because it is a lepin model, but because you either didn't tighten certain parts, or you built it wrong.
Look at that, Lepin came up with precisely the same design for this X-wing as Lego did. Wow that's a hell of a coincidence.. must be the Force at work. I mean, Lepin must have designed it themselves, because I'm pretty sure they didn't pay Lego (or Lucas) any royalties for stealing.. oops I mean "developing" the intellectual property. Maybe that's why Lepin is so cheap.. they divine their set layouts using the Force, rather than employing a lot of expensive designers to do it.
Off brand lego is only useful for substructure reinforcement when making MILS plates for example. The standard bricks are easy enough to copy, but lego is the master of precision pieces.
Even though the fake seems to be fine most of the time, I wouldn't be comfortable building with them. How do you even make out the difference i.e. in an online picture on a C2C website like ebay?
I don't know why everybody are talking down on Lepin... they aren't like other bootleg companies that try to scam you out of buying what you would assume to be a legit Lego set. It looks to be a decent product for a much less amount of money.
shouldn't there be a copyright claim thingy on the other fake lego shitpost copy thingy with the obivously fake copied stufff which should infringe on copyright stuff why am i still talking idfk if you are reading this hi mom
stoopid apples it wouldn't be legal if it were an American company. Because it is a company based 100% out of China where patents made in America mean nothing they aren't committing any crimes. That's the same as saying that when the Russians started copying US and British war machines they were doing so illegally, when technically it would only be illegal if the company had a patent in both countries
good day people. Just a friendly reminder that those pieces that won't close can be slightly trimmed with the good sandpaper grits. ;) another friendly reminder : you can't put back what you removed from the piece, so observe and think before you sand ! other than that, i think it's pretty good.
Pff, like I'd even consider buying a set that's just another Chinese knockoff. Seriously. Those companies need to learn to make their own god damned toys and stop copying everyone else.
The price discrepancy _is_ huge. But I'm not sure about who the target audience is. For display purposes, a set with missing pieces and ill-fitting parts obviously isn't going to cut it. For play I can see the value of Lepin. But I'd need to know more about their quality control. If structural pieces are missing, how well is the set going to hold up to actually being played with? For me though, it's all hypothetical. I'm a displayer, so its got to be lego all the way :P
OK, here's the deal. The basic brick utility patent has expired, so companies can make compatible bricks, BUT LEGO still holds the minifig patents and continues to get design (14 yr) patents on almost all their new and proprietary element designs, like various slopes, arches, etc. LEPIN is violating US and other international copyright and patent law, but they aren't actually selling direct to those markets (it gets here via resellers on Aliexpress and ebay). So LEGO is having a hard time shutting them down, especially since LEPIN in a Chinese company (likely the gov't holds a significant interest in them) selling direct to Chinese citizens and they are not violating any Chinese laws by copying the designs. LEGO wants into the Chinese market, so has to build a relationship and physical presence in China (that's why they're building a factory there). Once they're established they can (hopefully) grow their presence and sales in China and hopefully have more leverage against LEPIN/LELE copying them.
lol in he Phillipines there's a lot of knock off brands I like it I live in the Phillipines and I buy a lot of knock off brands lol if a original Lego cost 100 dollars it'll only cost 30 dollars suuu cheap lol
@@spartanwarrior1 kids mad over Lego lmao, wtf would I buy something for 100 , when I can buy the same exact thing for 30? Lol your logic makes no sense
