I know it's not Lego, but I like it! Well, some of it. Definitely not the figures which have induced screaming, thrashing night terrors in all who have seen them.
It would be great if Tatco were just a small group of people who work through various secondary companies to create things for the specific purpose of pissing off Ashen. When there's a dispute at work, the employees settle their differences by pulling their own arms and legs off and throwing them at each other.
One of these days I want to see Ashens build something out of all of the combined fake Lego he's gotten throughout the years. It'd probably be the size of his house by now.
Cobi actually used to make figurines that were exact copies of Lego ones, just usually military themed which Lego didn't touch. I guess they had to switch to these horrifying monsters when they started exporting the blocks because of copyright issues. They make some awesome stuff though. Their niche nowadays is models of actual historical vehicles like tanks and aeroplanes.
@@eternalemperorvalkorion750A couple days ago, I was trying to look up images of Norwegian soldier uniforms during the battle of Norway in 1940 in an attempt to do my best to recreate a Norwegian soldier in Battlefield V (That's a mouthful.), instead, I found an image of a Cobi set that was meant to be German soldiers at Narvik. They had Kar 98ks and even an MP40, I was actually surprised. Not sure if the Minifigures were accurate uniform wise (Or as close as a fake Lego Minifigure could get.), but they were incredibly detailed.
Anybody ever think about lego sets in the universe of Toy Story? Are the minifigures the only living things? How about full on sets that you build? If it was like an elephant made of legos, would it not think? At what point do toys in that universe gain free will and thinking ability? How about Knock offs of toys? Like what if Buzz met a knock off from when he was a big thing? Ditto for Woody? Basically any of them. I imagine Knockoffs are like second class citizens... Should I stop thinking about this?
Sean B But it's debatable whether he gets to keep his face when he transforms. Some people draw him as the one whose face stays the same, but others have the entire body changed.
Fun fact: The Polish lego man's name literally translates as "Walking Prussian". However, I do know someone who is polish who said that it actually translates as "Prussian Knight". Cool, huh?
There's an easy explanation - the literal translation is indeed "walking Prussian", but piechur in Polish means an infantry ("a walking soldier"). This Cobi set is inspired by the battle of Grunwald (1410, Polish-Lithuaninan-Teutonic war).
I totaly respect Cobi. Not only it's from my homeland but they are doing their own stuff, many miliatary sets and everythinh with lot of their own pieces. This one particular set is part of great line of sets based of Battle of Grunwald. Oh, Cobi is caring about customers. Mail them and will send you missing part
I managed to obtain Albanian fake Lego. It contained thousands of bricks that were very small and impossible to put together. You had to put together a thousand of them to build a helicopter, but they were impossible to tell apart, not to mention the angles were not exactly 90 degrees, resulting in all kinds of deviations. Moreover, once you joined two bricks, you couldn't take them apart again, without the help of a blow torch. It took me about one afternoon to give up on that shit.
"Family Dollar Services" Yup, it was sent from America. Family Dollar and Dollar Tree are our versions of Poundland and 99p Stores. That's cleared that one up, I presume.
No, not cleared up as Family Dollar Store sells their items for less than a dollar and more than a dollar. Dollar Tree sells everything in the store for a dollar or less. That's cleared that one up, I presume. :-)
Ugh, Family Dollar. There used to be one in town about 12 miles from where I live (yes, in America). They were put out of business by Dollar General, which is basically the same thing. Both are weird grocery stores in large rectangular buildings made of corrugated sheet metal and the *entire* building smells like the laundry detergent isle. Inside, you'll find one depressed checkout clerk and the white-trashiest people you've ever seen. Their holiday decorations for sale are decent at best. Interestingly enough, both stores have 'Dollar' in the name, but aren't actually dollar stores.
@@Swiftbow which is why it's automatically the best. The one where I live even has those Poundland-esque microwave sandwiches that Stuart seems to love (as long as the buns are toasted).
Actually got some of the newer Cobi sets now, Small Army, World War 2 series, they are actually pretty darn good. Minifigs however are surely worthy of a good laugh.
The WW2 sets I've purchased are pretty great quality. I'd go as far to say that they are just less well made as Lego. But maybe the ones that get shipped to other countries such as the U.S. Have better quality control.
Caden Castillo Not quite. The sets that Kirby is talking about were much older, like 10-12 years ago. They had really nice designs of vechicles but quality of bricks was pretty damn bad. Ugh and these minifigs.
testiou Give it plastic gray hair and it's Jay Leno. Give it black hair and a chainsaw lego arm and it's Bruce Campbell. =P Not-Actually-Lego chinman is versatile!
There are actual small Lego vehicles that use "chassis-lumps" like that . They're either featured as part of a larger set, or sold individually in boxes and polybags for about £5.
It's a lego car and on the box it says that you can personalize it with stickers. Think about this for a minute. A lego car. That you build. And can make it into literally anything you can dream of. And the *stickers* being personalizable is the selling point.
I dunno if it's just me, but Ashens has a voice that would actually be amazing for telling a bedtime story or something; there;s just something smooth about it that would make him a great narrator.
i laughed so hard when u were describing the guys' faces i started choking and i literally felt like i waS ABOUT TO DIE! well at least it was hilarious and totally worth it
Im gonna be genuinely honest. I went to worcester when i was a kid (about 6 years ago) and went into this toy shop. I found all these cobi fake lego medieval things and for some god foresaken reason i decided to bust all my money on that horrifying cannon in that video. I paid £7.99 for that monstrosity which im never getting back.
Falcon Plays They're "cool" because they're mostly based on real designs. The white bird on red was part of an older version of the Polish coat-of-arms. Also included is the Holy Roman Empire, Hungary, Russia and Teutonic Knights. Though what amused me was the presence of the sun figure Inti, which was unknown until South America was in the process of being discovered.
The COBI bricks is Cannon Nest with Prussian Footman In english. And it was created for the Battle of Grunwald anniversary or Battle of Tannenberg as you call it.
the green robot thing literally looked like the company found a random mix on excess bits left over from various sets over the years and just kinda put something together all fast and haphazardly and said " f&@k it good enuff boys ready the boxes" lol
I'm glad my parents bought me knock-off Lego from time to time in order to sate my *CONSTRUCTION URGES*. I had only a little bit less "fun" than I would with the name brand stuff, but my dad never had to work overtime to afford it.
I looked really closely at the Polish nonlegoes and I was really confused. You see, they *actually say "LEGO" on the studs in clearly-marked LEGO font.* fucking poles always stealing car tires and now legoes
Hasbro copies lego(but has much different and much more articulated figures and other unique bricks), MegaBlocks copies lego too, but is that necessary to use that stereotype about poles(unless you are racist)?
Dear god, when there was a jump cut to the built thing, there was a war of colony ad and as soon as it finished, ashens said "my god, I've seen some shit in my day" XD
The Polish set is really cool in its own little way. being some one who likes history I just loved looking at all those flags and the little Teutonic looking mini figure idea is pretty cool.
Still better than the hostel I stayed at in Newfoundland where I could feel shit (I assume bedbugs) crawling on my all night and where the guy in the bed next to me threw up. Good memories.
Cobi is great at resolving client complaints. Once I also was one piece short, they sent me one in a week and attached an extra minifigure. Quality of bricks is constantly improving, and it has like half of the price.
Oh god, I remember I had one of those Tatco "pirate" sets. In fact, I think it was the same one you reviewed in this video... I don't know if I questioned its bizarre architecture when I was that young back then. I've no idea, it's all in pieces and mixed up with my brother's Lego box now anyway... and half missing, except for the weird conquistador-looking feller, who survives inexplicably.
Battle of Grunwald, 1410 Polish and Lithuanian victory against those dastardly Teutonic Order folks. I think the description says: "Prussian(Teutonic) Footman"
Never heard of grunwald concentration camp, are you sure you haven't mistaken anything? But I heard about two battles there. One in 1410, and the second one in 1914 between germany and russia (you might now that one as battle of Tannenberg).
Oda Swifteye True. I firstly apologize for taking so long to respond, The last time-previous to the "Lego Star wars times" lego made a Military set. There was massive contriversy, and even with the current lego star wars, many complain abaout the guns.
Apparently, Block Tech - and, by extension Wilkinson/Wilko - source their sets from multiple manufacturers of Lego-clones. Hence the wildly varying looks and quality.
I'll just leave this here www.cracked.com/article_20025_5-world-famous-products-that-are-shameless-rip-offs.html :) have fun (edit: "compatible with other brands" ain't they f*ckin' got no shame?!) (edit 2: that's a bloody lego sand buggy exact copy! [except the wheels])
"Bitwa pod Grunwaldem" was one of the only dates I'd remember during history tests in Poland. I live in England now, so that was useless. Still, at least Malbork Castle is nice.
