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Long time lurker of this thread, first time posting!
I bought the white DECOOL 911 so thought I would share some details.
Bought from AliExpress (seller: H&H Co Ltd)
Ordered Sunday 11th Dec
Arrived via DHL on Thursday 15th December!
No customs charges
Bags were individually packed in a cardboard box. No bubble wrap etc but all seems fine. The black & white picture sticker was a bit crumpled, but nothing serious.
As such, VERY impressed with the seller!
Some pictures below
Due to limited time, this is going to take me weeks to build!
Will answer any questions though if people have them
Still tempted by the Lepin Falcon or SSD, although I have nowhere to put either!!
I bought the white DECOOL 911 so thought I would share some details.
Bought from AliExpress (seller: H&H Co Ltd)
Ordered Sunday 11th Dec
Arrived via DHL on Thursday 15th December!
No customs charges
Bags were individually packed in a cardboard box. No bubble wrap etc but all seems fine. The black & white picture sticker was a bit crumpled, but nothing serious.
As such, VERY impressed with the seller!
Some pictures below
Due to limited time, this is going to take me weeks to build!
Will answer any questions though if people have them
Still tempted by the Lepin Falcon or SSD, although I have nowhere to put either!!
thebojangles said:
Long time lurker of this thread, first time posting!
I bought the white DECOOL 911 so thought I would share some details.
Bought from AliExpress (seller: H&H Co Ltd)
Ordered Sunday 11th Dec
Arrived via DHL on Thursday 15th December!
No customs charges
Bags were individually packed in a cardboard box. No bubble wrap etc but all seems fine. The black & white picture sticker was a bit crumpled, but nothing serious.
As such, VERY impressed with the seller!
Some pictures below
Due to limited time, this is going to take me weeks to build!
Will answer any questions though if people have them
Still tempted by the Lepin Falcon or SSD, although I have nowhere to put either!!
I was looking on AliExpress this morning at just that model.I bought the white DECOOL 911 so thought I would share some details.
Bought from AliExpress (seller: H&H Co Ltd)
Ordered Sunday 11th Dec
Arrived via DHL on Thursday 15th December!
No customs charges
Bags were individually packed in a cardboard box. No bubble wrap etc but all seems fine. The black & white picture sticker was a bit crumpled, but nothing serious.
As such, VERY impressed with the seller!
Some pictures below
Due to limited time, this is going to take me weeks to build!
Will answer any questions though if people have them
Still tempted by the Lepin Falcon or SSD, although I have nowhere to put either!!
The white looks so different to the orange. Be interesting to see the build as I might have to take the plunge in the new year.
Also really tempted by the star cruiser.
Got a Lepin Wall-E here that will be getting test built before I give it to one of the kids at Christmas. (only reason for the test build is to be sure there are no bits missing that will cause upset)
Hard-Drive said:
thebojangles said:
Shame as it looks good in red and white...
http://www.bricklink.com/store/home.page?p=MVDS&am...
Grrrr, getting tanked off with my Falcon. It seems to be doing an "Empire" job on me and every time I touch it or try to add something, another huge piece falls off.
I'm at the stage where I just fitted the fairing thing with all the spikey bits and rudder bits under the engines. Was nearly the end of it. It just seems as more weight gets added, it becomes more and more fragile. Or is there a corner to turn where bits actually start to add some structural rigidity?
As things stand this will be my last build as it's supposed to be a de-stresser, not a source of stress!
I'm at the stage where I just fitted the fairing thing with all the spikey bits and rudder bits under the engines. Was nearly the end of it. It just seems as more weight gets added, it becomes more and more fragile. Or is there a corner to turn where bits actually start to add some structural rigidity?
As things stand this will be my last build as it's supposed to be a de-stresser, not a source of stress!
AshVX220 said:
Thanks for the info guys, really appreciate it, a tad worried about the fragility of the set, Does anyone know if the genuine set had such issues, or if it's "Lepin" specific?
I built the original and whilst it was very fragile it held together during the build. I think one of the reasons that lego haven't done a new version is that it probably wouldn't meet the current standard for robustness. Add that to the slightly worse clutch on Lepin and there is your problem. Its one of the reasons I haven't bothered with it along with the overall size and boring build.
Hard-Drive said:
Cheers. Any tips on using this? Thin stuff? Thick stuff? Can I just dab a few blobs in strategic problem places after it's built, rather than "airfix" style as it's going together?
Any Ethyl cyanoacrylate glue will work well. Just a couple small dabs where needs to be to keep things stuck together and to stop seepage.Finally got the Lepin Wall-E built.
No pieces missing. A few extra random parts though.
Overall went together easily but having to empty every bag & sort through for the parts was slightly frustrating.
To make things easier for my daughter I am going to put the parts in page numbered bags for her.
No pieces missing. A few extra random parts though.
Overall went together easily but having to empty every bag & sort through for the parts was slightly frustrating.
To make things easier for my daughter I am going to put the parts in page numbered bags for her.
Death Star 2 just landed, and Falcon to finish over the hols so ill be busy.
The other UCS,S that are still pre-sells to be delivered when released.
Noticed ALL faceache Lepin groups have been closed due to copyright claims from "a company"!!
Id say get your lepins while you can just on the odd chance "a company" wins its legal claim.
Highly doubtful knowing its against a Chinese company
Edit for another release, this is getting expensive now
The other UCS,S that are still pre-sells to be delivered when released.
Noticed ALL faceache Lepin groups have been closed due to copyright claims from "a company"!!
Id say get your lepins while you can just on the odd chance "a company" wins its legal claim.
Highly doubtful knowing its against a Chinese company
Edit for another release, this is getting expensive now
Edited by vaderface on Thursday 22 December 19:12
So after reading all the various comments about Lepin I’ve been genuinely intrigued about their quality so I thought I’d order set to take a look.
On Tuesday morning I ordered one of the modular buildings (retiring Pet Shop) from Ali-express as I thought it would give me something to do mid-jan.
Well to my surprise it was delivered this morning by DHL; I’ve only had a quick look but quality wise if it wasn’t for the lack of the Lego logo you would be VERY hard pushed to tell the difference.
Would I stop buying official Lego for Lepin or similar? No, but I am impressed, and I have no idea even for a knock off how they are making any profit as this set including the impressive 3 day delivery was only £45.
On Tuesday morning I ordered one of the modular buildings (retiring Pet Shop) from Ali-express as I thought it would give me something to do mid-jan.
Well to my surprise it was delivered this morning by DHL; I’ve only had a quick look but quality wise if it wasn’t for the lack of the Lego logo you would be VERY hard pushed to tell the difference.
Would I stop buying official Lego for Lepin or similar? No, but I am impressed, and I have no idea even for a knock off how they are making any profit as this set including the impressive 3 day delivery was only £45.
Merry Christmas all!
This Lepin thread has definitely led me down the path to ordering from AliExpress. (I ordered a Lepin Death Star for my daughter for Christmas at the beginning of January - it was more and I thought I would spend it knowing I would get the set promptly with no hassle to only find the seller sent me a fake tracking number for DHL and did not bother to ship it until the 22nd - after I started to raise holy heck with him and Ebay; apparently there is a tracking number for my address but it won't get here (Western Canada) until Jan. 3, according to DHL).
I have placed orders for a few mid - smaller sets on AliExpress and I think I will be going that route from now on.
Of course, discovering these lines just before Christmas is not the best ... There are so many sets I passed over because they were/are just overpriced!
I still need to save money for parts for my real rides (Harley and a PT Cruiser) and then save for a potential move for work for the fall ... *sigh*
I guess each extra day I work after Christmas will bring me closer to getting some of the Modular buildings (and you guys have sold me on the Porsche!) and I would love to buy some of the UCS Star Wars sets (I never bought a single Star Wars Lego set until earlier this year for my daughter as I never wanted to go down the slippery slope as the company just made so many sets I knew I would never be able to keep them all - but Lepin (and the others) make it worth getting the big sets that are retired.
There's far worse things for a 12 year old to be doing than building blocks but with Lego prices being what they are, there is no way we would ever be able to afford the large sets (Costco helps a little bit in that regard - the new Millenium Falcon was $140 CDN or about 84 Pounds - still, compare that to what you get in the UCS Falcon and the price point just does not add up ...).
Anyway, Merry Christmas all. I'm off to find the Queen's Christmas message.
This Lepin thread has definitely led me down the path to ordering from AliExpress. (I ordered a Lepin Death Star for my daughter for Christmas at the beginning of January - it was more and I thought I would spend it knowing I would get the set promptly with no hassle to only find the seller sent me a fake tracking number for DHL and did not bother to ship it until the 22nd - after I started to raise holy heck with him and Ebay; apparently there is a tracking number for my address but it won't get here (Western Canada) until Jan. 3, according to DHL).
I have placed orders for a few mid - smaller sets on AliExpress and I think I will be going that route from now on.
Of course, discovering these lines just before Christmas is not the best ... There are so many sets I passed over because they were/are just overpriced!
I still need to save money for parts for my real rides (Harley and a PT Cruiser) and then save for a potential move for work for the fall ... *sigh*
I guess each extra day I work after Christmas will bring me closer to getting some of the Modular buildings (and you guys have sold me on the Porsche!) and I would love to buy some of the UCS Star Wars sets (I never bought a single Star Wars Lego set until earlier this year for my daughter as I never wanted to go down the slippery slope as the company just made so many sets I knew I would never be able to keep them all - but Lepin (and the others) make it worth getting the big sets that are retired.
There's far worse things for a 12 year old to be doing than building blocks but with Lego prices being what they are, there is no way we would ever be able to afford the large sets (Costco helps a little bit in that regard - the new Millenium Falcon was $140 CDN or about 84 Pounds - still, compare that to what you get in the UCS Falcon and the price point just does not add up ...).
Anyway, Merry Christmas all. I'm off to find the Queen's Christmas message.
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