The LEPIN "LEGO" for non sensitive types

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Leading on from the "other" thread, it's probably best to start a separate one for those of us with a little interest in the contents and quality of the kits from LEPIN. I do not want this thread to descend into a bh fest, so please let's just keep it about the kits contents.

As most of you know I bought four kits from a local toy shop the other day and have now completed the VW splitty.

Thoughts on this set from me are;

Build quality is spot on,
The pieces clip together as they should,
Annoyingly the bags aren't numbered so it's a case of just cracking on from the random bags,
I wasn't missing any parts, in fact I had some left over including an arsenal of guns,
The instruction book didn't cause any issues re colour that I had read about prior to opening this kit,
Value for money wise I'd say you would be hard pushed to beat it.

Onto the finished article













I do have the Millennium Falcon on order with my local store along with the Porsche, and I will have the complete set of modular houses that they make I just couldn't carry more than the four sets I chose yesterday.

I will start on one of the modular sets next.

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I know there's a wrong brick in the doorway, tired eyes so enough for today.



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I thought I would repost the modular green grocer in here as we should be able to discuss it here without issue.

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I also have these two kits to build, is there any preference from anyone that is the first one to be built?

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ColinM said:

paul_y3k said:

Has anyone in the UK bought one yet ? Is their a hefty customs bill watiign at import ?
My wife wants to finish the modular sets, but we can't afford the ebay prices for the discontinued sets ...

I am considering the Death Star 2. The most likely route is with a Chinese/HK seller through Aliexpress, although I have never used them before. I will expect to get hit with customs charge of about 20% + £8.

A bit worried about credit card fraud with an unknown company on the other side of the planet.

As long as you pay through aliexpress then you shouldn't have any issue as they don't release the money until you've received your order. I've used the site for a number of years only paying via their portal not to the company direct.

Re taxes, unfortunately I cannot help on that one.

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Zoon said:

Has anyone ordered the GT3RS Technic Lepin version?

Yes

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If found the quality to be pretty decent, I was missing two pieces so had to raid my daughters LEGO.

I don't have a genuine modular to compare the one I've built to so hopefully someone reading this can be critical.

unfortunately I didn't notice until I uploaded the pics that I hadn't put all the levels together snugly for the pics so apologies for that.

As mentioned before the fit and finish to my eye and feel, felt pretty spot on and I do not feel I have something inferior. I think from memory it was either 36 or 39 quid so I really can't grumble.

Ok I'll build the cafe one next.

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Eighteeteewhy said:

Need all that, luckily I've been throwing out the boxes so swmbo doesn't know exactly the extent of all the sets I have to build.

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I've made a start on the Cafe Corner.

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SunsetZed said:

I'm interested in buying some of this, anyone know which countries it's available on the high street in? So far I've seen it in China and Malaysia, are there any other countries that have it?

I'm in the Philippines and can buy some of the sets from stores.

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I'm liking the idea of hanging on the wall just not sure how to do it yet.

My Porsche gets delivered in the morning, the guy that owns the local shop will bring it over including the box so I'll post some pictures up.

Now I'm going to be in a quandary, finish the cafe corner or start this one first? Oh and to further add to the quandary the guy has said he can also bring me over the super star destroyer...

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bobfett said:

Damn and blast. Was going to give some Lepin a try, but no credit card rules out aliexpress!

Seems either credit card or some dodgy looking paypal-esque thing. I think not.

You can just use a pay as you go credit card, that's what I do on site such as this.

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Getragdogleg said:

Mike: How do your local prices compare with the online prices ?

From memory the VW camber was 24 quid, the three modular ranged from 36 to 39 quid, the Porsche is going to cost me 62 quid and the super star destroyer will be 72 quid. Plus side I have no shipping and I get the box, although all boxes so far have ended up in the bin. I've not bought to resell ever so see no point in keeping them, plus for what you can buy them for new, I can't see any use for them on the second hand market.

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This morning I've played a couple of shops off against each other and have reduced prices.

Super star destroyer 63 quid
Porsche 55 quid

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I've not opened the boxes or anything yet, I'll wait for the boss to recover from me telling her I'm sticking a 49 inch model on the wall!

Edited by _MIKE_ on Saturday 27th August 09:34

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dr_gn said:

With the motorised sets like the crane, are the motors copies, or genuine, or are they included at all?

I've got an 8043 remote controlled excavator which must be one of the best Technic sets ever released - do they do that with remote control??

I'll let you know once I have one. I'm not ordering anything from aliexpress so rely on the toy shops here bringing it all in, they're just currently telling me they'll have them soon.

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robemcdonald said:

Just ordered the Porsche from aliexpress. I ordered from Susango as others have done, but I used the aliexpress ap so it's costing me £70.47 delivered (obviously expecting to pay some duty). I will update when it arrives.
If you can use the app though as it is about 20% cheaper.

That seems a decent price, I paid 55 but I don't think I could ship it to you for cheaper unfortunately. Interested to know if you get the box like I did as I know russy didn't.

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I do believe I'm going to "need" a couple of this set.





Oh I also now own 14333 Lepin bricks in total...