And included with this set are all your favorite Star Plan characters: -Roy -Funn -Liah -Hand (old and young!) -Crunchy -D-4QP -CC-812 -and 2 porns!!! Edit: As a special bonus there is also a yourknock included!
While I'm not exactly in support of Lepin, I do not think the issue is as clear cut as, "LEGO good, Lepin bad." For instance, a lot of the preference for Lepin seems to revolve around accessibility. People are turning to the pirated option because the legit option is just too expensive or isn't in stock anymore. This makes sense. The same thing happens with video games (i.e. emulation being the alternative to retro gaming, it being inaccessible). On another note, people seem to be raising this idea that Lepin is unfair to the designers and is some sort of betrayal to them; however, it is worth noting that LEGO doesn't ever credit their designers on their respective sets. I point this out because it's silly for people to be morally grandstanding about LEGO piracy. LEGO will be just fine. The movie industry freaked out about piracy in the mid-2000s and then nothing happened. It didn't even budge the box office. I'm sure LEGO will be the same. They'll finish suing Lepin and this will all blow over. Someone who pirates is not a lost customer- they were never a customer in the first place.
For me I would never buy my 12 year old this $900 set in a million years. But I've seen this lepin set much more obtainable. I'm def considering for next xmas. LEGO didn't loose out cause I was never going to buy the real one anyways.
I will only support buying piracy when the model is out of stock. Otherwise if you can’t afford it you can’t afford it , as easy as that. No one has ever died for not owning a lego set. Go buy a smaller set instead. The only reason there is piracy out there is because people care shit about the designers and all the effort and sweat involved on its creation. Try explaining your kids that you are buying them piracy ( stolen creativity) in order to make them happy and let me know what they think. Are those the values you want to promote in the next generation, now wonder why our world sucks today ?
If you cant afford it, do without or save up, lepin is not worth no matter how much cheaper. I have experience with lepin and it's not worth it, the pieces start to come off on their own it's garbage.
@@Santanilla fuck that noise, and fuck your high horse, its goddamn plastic. Not to mention LEGO stole the brick design from kiddie craft so who cares. it doesnt hurt anyone to buy the knock off version of something I'd never of bought otherwise.
The only love I will ever give Lepin, is that they are providing a building experience, even though they didn't dream it up themselves, to markets that would normally never get to have such a thing. There are plenty of 'barely making it' parents in the USA that would gladly take the Lepin solution, in a heartbeat. It's still intellectual theft, and quality wise, they cut every corner imaginable, not so much with manufacturing, but printing, designers, and those oh-so costly licensing agreements.
@@fritospie7982 Not all sets are that expensive. Also its not all that irresponsible. Buying the real $1000 version would be irresponsible. They're just toys. get over yourself
Bakamatsu Get over yourself, sir. My point still stands. If you are barely making it, under no circumstances should you buy your kid a 200 dollar toy. First world problems
i think that a part from the extra 904 pcs came from the minifigure torsos and hands because they are counted by lego as one piece but they are actually five
I've never ever had a Lego™ set where I had to assemble every single little piece of the mini-figures, like I had to with this Lepin kit. With two hands and two arms to attach to each torso, each bottom part also came as the hip bit and two separate legs (thats' six more pieces per figure than Lego would have had). I also suspect that they may have used smaller pieces for, say, panels, but I haven't had a chance to compare with the original (though for completeness I plan to get one eventually).
As a person that has bought Legos his whole life, I can testify that the prices for Legos has been rapidly increasing in the past 10 yrs. Way above the inflation.
It’s not legos fault, it’s disney’s They want money, lego knows they can’t go that far but they have no choice, that’s why many sets are always at %30 off, they simply alternate.
This aint a discontinued set though. if he was willing to spend over 200 to get this fake inferior version then he isn't a true collector. He is a bitch.
Darth Bane I’m sorry but not everyone has $1,099 to spend, this looks extremely similar and still good so why spend over a THOUSAND dollars for a company label?
It’s a lego set man, literally a toy made and designed by a toy company. You all are attacking a person who doesn’t have the money to get the real product so he opted for a less expensive model, it’s just like buying a cheaper truck that’s almost the same as another model from a different company, that’s design was probably copied, but no one gives a shit because it’s almost the same truck for a cheaper price. The point is, is that it really doesn’t matter, and saying “oh LEGO made the design and there just copying, so anyone who buys it is evil”, is just stupid, it’s just being smart enough to get a better deal
I have a mix of Lego and Lepin. I found this set great fun to build. The tolerances on the bricks are somewhat short of the Lego units, but this is reflected in the price point. As it’s a static display item, this is not a problem, although I have found that it has sagged with time.
I have wanted the original UCS Falcon for a decade now. Even now I have 3 jobs and still can't afford the new one at retail price, it's insane. I love Lego and spent a ton of money (and my parent's money too) on sets over the years but this is just insanely priced so I'm pretty likely to get this set. I simply cannot afford the official one and this is pretty much the last chance I have before I head off to university to build the thing.
I understand peoples point on fake vs real but i refuse to waste 700 bucls for a star wars dropship that comes with a tank....when i can go and get a lepin replica for 88 ...yea lego is lego but in rare instances id buy lepin for example the gunship and dropship 59 for gunship and 88 for dropship.
How does the overall quality of this kit compare to authentic Lego? Are the bricks & panels as solid / rigid and does the finished build feel stable when lifted?
Larger authentic Lego panels/plates have always been better than lepin in almost every measurable way. While I don't have a Lego version of this set to compare with, I have found no problems with the overall sturdiness of this set. It feels very solid, some small cosmetic pieces have shitty clutch strength, but the main pieces hold together very well.
JohnZorZ84 I really hope you respond so I can get some advice. I wanted to know if a year later it’s still holding up because I’m not fortunate enough to buy the real one but the lepin one would be affordable as a main x mas gift . So I just wanna know if any cracks or falling apart
I purchased this set. It was advertised as discounted lego and showed up in a plain brown box a foot and a half square. I have never felt so torn between feeling ripped off and extreme warm fuzzies. No, I'm not letting it go. I'm never gonna give it up.
The 900 piece count difference is odd alright. I know Lepin do count their parts differently, like each minifigure counts as anywhere from 6 to 10 parts as they count the head, headpiece, torso, each arm, hand, leg and midsection. And the same goes for any moving or hinged piece that can be split into two bricks. But yeah, thank goodness for numbered bags... I got the Executor Super Star Destroyer a week ago, and it took me 8 hours just to sort through the parts...
lorcan0c ya I think I heard about how they count the mini figs as you described, but didn't know about the other hinged pieces... Still seems like a big difference though, oh well, haha Damn, ya the SSD took me a while to sort as well, but sorting ahead of time is definitely worth doing.
Aliexpress. Provides chinese goods internationally. Shipping can be a hassle sometimes, depending on what seller you go with and what kind of handling they offer or how reliable they are, but I've yet to have a bad experience with them.
Nikioko no, but i like building stuff and i’m not gonna pay hundreds of dollars for it, if lego didn’t want so many knockoffs they would just cheapen their products, And its legal to buy so i’m not violating any laws
They should, but I will continue to buy the sets I want like the falcon, was so much fun putting together and every time I look at it I smile so satisfying.
What you said makes no sense. You're still saying you're ok supporting theifs, because other people do it too. You don't justify you're bad actions based on other peoples bad decisions.
@@fritospie7982 It makes perfect sense. Allow me to explain. The original comment was this: " how many people complain about theft from Lego, download movies and music." He is pointing out the hypocrisy of people with pirated content complaining about pirated products. So if someone has illegally downloaded movies and/or music on their computers, and they bitch about lepin, that would be hypocrisy. This is only a comment on other people's hypocrisy, this is not a defence for buying the pirated product in the first place. A sort of "he who is without sin" kind of situation.
To be honest. Past 2 months I've dropped about $800 in official lego products. But seeing a few reviews about ko legos. I'm wanting to get some ko sets and see what kind of quality they are. I can see your point money wise. Do I buy Bandaid or a adhesive strip, both do the same thing, just what can you afford and does it accomplish the task needed. I just placed a order for a full set of all the Skooby-Doo, Ko Voltron, and Future (Nexo) Knights Knightington castle. Time to wait and see. But this Falcon is next on my list. Thanks for showing this off, I just wish it had more interior room. All that wasted space inside, with so many ideas of things they could have explored.
Awsome review! Totaly understand why you bought Lepin. 800$ for the lego set is stupily high. Their is nothing justifying those prices besides greed. LEGO don’t even pay designers much money so it’s hardly the reason why their sets costs an arm and a leg.
Pirated Chinese kits are a great solution for most countries. For example, in our country, original Lego sets cost 2-3 times more than in the USA. Lego in many places is absolutely inadequate prices.
Do the bricks have a hard time connecting? I have never bought a Lepin set before but for the price of this set I might think about buying it. Great review!
Any adult can buy a $800 lego set, but is it really worth that much to them???? No. Any reasonable adult wouldn't spend that much on a lego set let alone $1,000. Building with legos should be enjoyed for everyone. I don't see anything wrong with people who buy Lepin. And for a set that just going to sit on the shelf it's worth save your cash.
Nice review. How do find the quality, for example the bricks holding together and clicking together? I have a 2 lepin sets and one is better than the other (the new one is better). I have the Lego MF just don't know if I want to keep it or sell it and buy more sets with the spare cash. It was a Lot of money (1300 in AU)
thehaytch I find the vast majority of bricks hold together very well, the only bricks that sometimes seem to not hold together so well are the little tiny binocular looking pieces with little plastic rods. Just little surface detail pieces, the structural pieces hold together as strong as Lego in my experience.
JohnZorZ84 thanks for the reply. Another thing to think about with lepin is that it may actually be Lego themselves capturing the low end of the market that way they can still capitalise on the IP. The other thought is as with all manufacturers when they move to China (Lego in 2015 I believe) is that they teach china how to make their products and then the Chinese just copy it. They kind of brought it on themselves, I have seen it with many products
Sometimes I buy “Stop and Shop” brand coffee creamer...I like the “ princess castle”. Zero issue. They are stepping it up i guess. Didn’t get any defect either. Chose seller with best reviews. Only problem if that... was pieces scattered. Like a one piece for left of steps ( left slant foursie) was in a different bag, than the right side one. I’ve spent appx $8k on LEGO. I’m not looking to resell the castle. It’s for me. As with most sets. Just like building. Like I like my no name creamer.
800 dollars, still cracks me up thinking about it. You know you could actually buy 1000 times more plastic in volume than is used to create the UCS Millenium set for that much? I know, I know, machinery, trademarks, overhead, employee's, I get it. Still doesn't change the fact that Lego has probably over a 400% margin on this product, and for that reason I'll never buy it.
@@poedameron8160 its that price because it's the price that was set back in the late 90s, It's like Nintendo in the late 80s, where 1 employee was generating a million dollars on average when divided by the company total staff, It's high margins, it's people willing to pay it, it's lego wanting huge profits and huge savings in their bank If you can make a high end taco and sell it for 30 dollars instead of 3 why not, just tell everyone you got overhead, and designers, and licensing deals,
good job mate, I did also buy many fake lego star wars sets because they are no longer on the market or because they are too expensive (super star destrooyer for exemple), yeah, lego is better but the price is just not justified for some sets because it's just a piece of plastic. Also, if I buy the old sets from someone else, I don't help lego or anything like that
I just bought the lego city hall and i cant aford the orginal beause its expensive the lepin i bought is 2000 pesos and the original is 50000 pesos.The city hall i bought is good it have no missing piece and lego bricks not breaking and it also look thesame to the original
Can't wait, getting mine next week!! (Also ordered the 12k pieces Cavegod Sand Crawler but I have to wait so long before it's shipped that I ordered the falcon to keep me busy in the meantime :P). Loved watching the speed build with the SW asteroid field music in the background :)
The effort to build the set make video edit it and release it is time consuming. So good job continue! And what ever the people are writing. Important is to have fun by the brick building.
wkruit1 Understand you point. It is up to the end user if someone feels bad or not. Global market found the way how to sell it. And if there would not be a demand this companies would stop. I know for example one of the supplier of the injection molding machines for Lepin is HAITIAN. This company is also a supplier to automotive suppliers which supply they parts like bumpers to big brands as BMW, GM etc. Do they feal guilty? This is all about corparate business and the money. So end of the day at least the fun of the brick building should remain does not matter to who you pay.
it's not fun building lepin sets, the pieces do not go on well, and some are just completely stupid like the ucs star destroyer...all the magnet clips brokes becuase the magnets they used were way too damn strong so I tossed it.
Darth Bane I agree it is bit different feeling when you assemble bricks from Lepin sometimes they miss clutch power. Also if you build Lepin technic sets it is known the quality if the puns is bit worse as Lego. Or the Lepin servo motors are nightmare. But I had still fun with it. Because in my opinion it is still fun because this means modify and improve the models with some old spare parts.
Bricks and Toys mix Yes, they do parts for other companies. However, it USED to be legal, now, lepin lost the lawsuit to Lego, becoming illegal to sell copied sets. Its not about building fun or what, it just that it is NOT ETHICAL to do what you are doing(Buying lepin sets and support them to reproduce more)
I just bought the LEGO one for about $600 USD. It's too much for me but I always assume LEPIN will be crap with missing pieces - although it's probably not true. Still deciding whether to build or resell it.
piracy is horrible, and evil. However, after after a Lego employee went out of her way to make my wife, who at the time was fighting stage 3 cancer, feel worthless and unwanted and not good enough to shop at a Lego store, I FULLY support anyone buying Lepin. Lego can burn in hell for all I care
I would agree that one shouldn't judge a company by the actions of a single person. However, after that issue, I sent an email to Lego Corp detailing what happened and how much it upset my wife and me. We weren't looking for free Lego sets or anything monetary, just an apology. Nothing, not a peep from the company. So to me, that's the company as a whole in agreement with the single employee. That is why I buy Lepin. Heck, we don't even put most of the sets together, there is a noticeable difference in quality. But, as I previously stated, it's not about the product. It's about supporting the enemy of my enemy.
Shore Knightseer what? The company doesn’t care, you think the entire company unanimously agrees that they hate your wife ? What are you talking about they just don’t care it’s one person out of billions of people who die every second
Imagine buying a giant set like this, then finding there was an important piece missing. I am gonna have to go with the Lego one as it is only £300 for me
I never knew Lepin existed. I’ll have to check it out. Would love to know someone’s opinion who owns both the LEGO and Lepin version of this to see what their thoughts on it were and of the value was really there.
People giving him hate for buying lepin for supporting chinese fakes,I personally would NEVER spend 800$ on a Lego set and i would change minor less quality for a way more reasonable price.
I was this close to buying a ucs millennium falcon, until I realized how horribly Disney has treated its fanbase. I will choose Lepin because I want my model, but I am not giving 1 more cent of my money to lucasfilm.
@@steff-the-ghoul Dude there is so much shit you can buy with $800 If you care that much about a toy brand that you're not willing to cut the price more than half. I think you need to get your priorities straight. You can pay a months rent for a 1 bedroom apartment with $800. Any person with a brain will go for the cheaper option. Yes it is piracy but if it benefits you than by all means be a pirate.
It’s not a matter of price, the real problem is: I wan’t to make LEGO bankrupt? If yes continue buy lepin and I hope the customs seizure the package. If not, u understand how to respect the work of others peoples.
Well would you look at that! I totally never expected there to be Lepin haters in the comments. *sarcasm* If I want to buy something then I will, you guys have no right to tell someone that they can't buy something with their own money that they earned. If they wanna buy Lego then they buy Lego, if they want Lepin then the buy Lepin, and if they want to free a small child from a desert planet then well your republic credits are no good here. There are people just tryna ge the sets they wanted as a kid and just getting hate for it, it's obvious that someone who isn't a die hard Lego collector is gonna opt for the cheaper option.
I showed near the beginning of the video where I ordered it from. It's a Koren website, but from a seller that no longer sells online. So unfortunately it's not an option anymore.
I Dont suppot Theft and Copyright. Lego put a gigantic amout of time to create this set and to copy there work and sell it Is with out doubt ilegal. even if china think it's not.
It's not that China "thinks" its not illegal. It simply is not illegal in China. I agree that it is a bootlegged product which is illegal in most countries outside of China, I have never claimed it's not. However, in China this product is legal. So your opinion, and mine as well, makes no difference in regards to that.
JohnZorZ84 Well you should be. You're supporting the undermining of western industry by China outright stealing products. I.e. you are supporting academic theft. This has been impacting Lego, their profits fell for the first time in 13 years earlier this year. If Lego does have to cut back it will be Lego and Lepin users suffering the consequences of less designs and sets like this. Not to mention Lepin has been found to be toxic with silicone gel on the pieces. If you can't afford or 'justify to buy lego' do everyone a favour and just don't buy it. Furthermore, if you want to sell it in the future you will not get a penny for it.
Well lucky for me, my feelings aren't dependent on your thoughts towards them. You are right Lego profits were down in 2017, first drop in 13 years. However you failed to mention that 2016 saw Lego Group see it's highest revenue in its 85 year history. ( www.statista.com/statistics/282870/lego-group-revenue/ ) ( www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/03/09/lego-reports-highest-revenue-85-year-history/ ) So having a revenue drop in the year following their most successful year in history is hardly a cause for concern. The start of a downward trend? Maybe. Just a hickup in an otherwise steadily rising revenue stream? Also possible. Either way, I think Lego will be ok. Toxic pieces you say? Thanks for the heads up, I'll make sure not to bring the Lepin falcon as the main course to the charity potluck this weekend. Do me a favour too will you? You do with your money what you choose to, and I will do the same with mine. Won't get a penny? I'm sure if I melted all my sets down and sold the raw plastic I could get at least a nickel, maybe even a dime if I polish it up real shiny like.
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This thing is like a dream for people who grew up with lego. Unfortunately I cannot affor the real thing and Im really finding it hard to buy this one either. But anyhow. Its only thanks to Lepin I could some day enjoy this great thing. And when it comes to defending a brand, well bad luck. The products are way too overpriced.
I bought the lepin falcon a while back but as of today bought the lego version on the lego site. I will not bother putting together the lepin falcon till a much later date, I rather get lego as the quality is much better and the build experience is way way way better since you get them in numbered bags by the step which saves you a lot of time and space.
another issue I have with lepin lately is that the parts are dirty have weird grime stains on them which is a bad sign in my opinion. I'ts not on every part but enough to make me concerned.
Congrats on grabbing the Lego version, not always so easy to find available from what I hear. Nice that you have both versions, would be nice to get a side by side of the experience with both versions. Yes Lepin pieces can randomly have odd stains and inperfections on them. Not all the pieces not even most of them, but in a set of several thousand peices you may get a handful (like 5-10 maybe more) that are partially melted, or have some odd stain. Lepin does number the bags for this set, but Legos way of organizing their bags is better I agree. Either way, have fun with the build
Actually it's easy to get the lego falcon now, it's been available for a good while now on the lego store. I no longer wish to build the lepin set, I just dont have the time and patience it would require to go through all the bags, they are numbered but not by step it's pointless.
Darth Bane When I made this video it was hard to find the Lego version. The bags are numbered by step. There are 17 bags in the official Lego version. This just has like 10 different bags for each step, so open all the number 1 bags and that will get you through Lego version bag 1 then open all number 2 bags and so on.
The quality is definitely not as high as real Lego bricks, but it's pretty close. I'd say it's about 80 - 90% there. For my use it's good enough, it sits on a shelf and collects just as much dust as a real Lego set.
@@user-kx7do4fh2j bricklink is full of scalpers that jack up the prices so they can make a profit and even if you part it out it's still going to be like twice the amount of a lepin set
@@AutomateYourMind do not try to justify Lepin because it is cheaper. They are stealing Legos intellectual property with almost the exact boxart. I mean "starplan" wtf. On their website they write Lepin fan ideas and show pictures of actual Lego sets. Theses guys are idiotic animals!
@@user-kx7do4fh2j But what exactly is the issue? Lego doesn't sell retired sets and thus they do not get revenue from them anymore anyway, so what is the issue with lepin copying designs they no longer sell? I say this as someone who has never bought anything other than lego, but you'd be hard pressed to explain how this in anyway hurts lego.
Man i got lots of Megablocks Halo sets and they were big and about 4x cheaper than Lego boxes the same size !!! Lepin is on the same level as Megablocks by quality.... And Megablock HALO figures actually had MANY JOINTS on soldiers hands and legs ( crazy detailed ) ... So if youre for just "model collecting dust " go for Lepin, if kids wanna play Lego is more durable for Mill.Falc. destruction /assemble over and over again... 😉
Welcome to wild capitalism, folks! It's a fact that LEGO made something truly amazing and high value.... But that doesn't means that they should charge insane prices. $80 set is ok? It's $120 in my country where they actualy produce it... They make HUGE profit already. Be happy for companies like LEPIN that can bring such an educational toy for those who aren't able to spend LEGO's overprices. Not to mention the deeply greedy second-market of sets and pieces... Fun Fact: The less LEGO sells, the more friendly offers they have to do. P.s.: Cheers, please throw away your cars as well because they're aren't original Ford T model successors. You have a Toyota? Sure, asian copy, no buy? Be reasonable over your demagogues...
Alexander Wesley MATTHEWS You expect because of that people will pay for plastic 1k euro... dude most people in the world barely make 1000 euro in a mouth and even less
In this case I can understand buying the knockoff, though personally I just can't the pieces feel cheap and the quality isn't as great but if you just wanted to have something to display without the figures id say go ahead
ScorPWNok I understand not having the money for LEGO set like this one but lepin literally steals legos design that’s why it’s so cheap they don’t have to design the ship also Lepin comes apart over time and LEGO sets once there discontinued can be sold for over 2000$
I think that his purchase was justified, the set was out of stock on the lego website and i can understand that paying 1000 usd for a lego set is way too much.
JohnZorZ84 You could take more care to attribute the design work to Lego. Now it seems like you are endorsing the "design" of lepin, while in fact they just stole it.
Remember that time Lego stole the design for lego from a company called Kidibricks? And then remember when Lego patented every brick design possible 10 years after stealing kidibricks design? Where is kidibricks today? where is any lego competition? There is none because they stole their way to where they are then made sure no one could do the same.
About the count - someone who did a review and had two thinks the difference is about the way it is build where special pieces have been replaced by smaller ones ... can't guarantee it is correct though ...
If Lego dropped their greed for money then Lepin wouldn't get any sales. Lego have just been greedy pure and simple and as most people cannot afford their prices for sets then Lepin are onto a winner with sets they produce being 2/3rds cheaper than Lego on average here in the UK. The Lego UCS Falcon set only costs £30 to produce, including wages, so you can see how greedy they are for your cash. As long as UK Customs allow importation I'm happy to buy Lepin sets and before you say im a Lego hater I have all my life bought and still buy Lego sets but if Lepin offer them at a fairer price then I'm ok with it, that's what drives the market. I have this set but have yet to assemble it due to no shelf space. This was a good review and puts my mind at rest as to quality.
Proctor Productions people need to stop using the word steal, words have definitions and definitions are important. This is not a stolen product, this didn't "fall off a truck" somewhere. Stolen means that the original owner is no longer in possession of that item. These sets are not stolen. The designs have been copied and illegally reproduced. So these are bootleg/knock-off products. Not stolen products, regardless of using the qualifier "practically". Stolen designs?... I wouldn't even use it in that scenario, no one snuck into Lego HQ and stole designs from there. Call them bootlegs, knock-offs, illegal pieces of shit, whatever. But please use the appropriate words.
Proctor Productions These are knock offs or copies but that's immaterial as the U.S. garage model kit industry has been doing it for years with vac form copies etc so it's not as if Lepin are the bogeyman here, they are just exploiting a loophole to make money and isn't that the capitalist way (ironic it's a socialist country that's doing it lol)? Supply and demand and you do agree Lego are ripping us off. As ive stated before the actual cost of production of the UCS Falcon is £30 (about $23) including licencing/wages/designer fees, so the mark up is ridiculous! If Lego dropped their prices then I'm fine with just buying Lego and I still do buy Lego but not when the price is simply exploitative. Anyway I feel there are those that will always 'feel' bad over this issue and then those that dont but remember this, who is the more foolish in fueling a materialistic/exclusivity based ideal of what is essentially just a toy by paying silly prices for it? I'm a realist and very much grounded in 'I buy what I can afford' by voting with my wallet I'm enforcing that right and drumming it home to the companies that want us to be materialistically biased sheeple by not paying unrealistic prices. To quote couple of clichéd notions but... "who is the more foolish the fool or the fool who follows him?" or "a fool and his money are soon parted". Please don't feel this is a rant at you individually as I mean no ill intent but im just highlighting a point which transends so many things these days and I hold the fashion industry to blame for it all, exclusivity by false idiolgy ;-)
The definition of steal: take (another person's property) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it. We are all entitled to our own opinions. No one is entitled to their own facts and definitions. Lepin is copying a lego design, yes. They are producing and selling a bootlegged product. These products are not stolen, the designs are not stolen. The designs are copied.Lepin is doing to Lego what Lego did to Kiddikraft.
it's called licensing fees and R & D. Do you think the intellectual property of Disney is free? Do you think the lego engineer's time is free ? The graphic designers for the box art, the manual, marketing, shall i go on? Stop trying to justify stealing because you're too cheap to dish out for the real thing. Same with any counterfeit item, if can't afford it, go without. Same situation when people buy a fake Rolex and try to justify it, if you can't afford a Rolex buy a fucken Seiko. If you can't afford Lego, the market has plenty of other brick companies that design their own sets. I am not sure where you pull this claimed "cost" for a UCS falcon. Where is your research to back it up?
I missed out on buying the Ghostbusters firehouse. I was going to spend the 350. Then they stopped selling it. Its too bad. Lego lost my money. Luckly Lepin has one available.
You're lucky that you got a correctly printed canopy. I didn't. And I got a replacement for it that was in the worst possible state, broken & scratched all over the place. Meanwhile a genuine Lego one on Bricklink costs as much as the Lepin set. So that's one thing to keep in mind, Lepin won't care about missing or broken parts (which are many in this one, but all of the other ones are common). I also had the wrong color for that panel, but it's ok. And those stickers are completely wrong.
I bought the lepin super star destroyer and it felt exaclty like real lego and it came with bossk ig-88 darth vader and admeiral piett and it was well done(but pls no hate on me im not a anti lego person i just done hve enough money to buy the real lego)and the mini figure are super detailed and darth vader was incredible.although its fake lego it still has good quality
I'd rather be much of a no-sider to the argument of "lepin bad, Lego good" But to be as concrete as with any given statement that has a balancing point to the argument That's all coming from the consumer, and I'd care less if the asking price is good enough to rob someone out of their wage for other financial concerns It's just for seeking what people want in an alternate option, regardless of counterfeit or heresy amongst Lego communities
I’m bricks fan. Any brand is ok for me. Lepin actually wasn’t bad, they have similar quality as Lego. I’m not super rich guy, for me Lepin actually causing me to collect it. Only small build is under Lego, larger set will be Alternative brands. Third party brand actually getting mature in their design,especially war war version which Lego doesn’t have. As long you’re happy with your builds, any brand doesn’t matter. I’m open to any brand.
Its a bird! No its a plane! Actually its STAR PLAN'S EPIC MILLENIUM FALCON Original 100% precent original content by lepin not star wars they took lepins plan. EPIC THEORY👌
Thanks for the video. But when you comment about pricing... I don't know the real costs Lego have with designers, to project all these intricate new Lego parts, and to think about assembling those in a Playful way (also important) - no to tell quality control, marketing, and many many more. But this HAS a COST, people should know it at least. Another thing is just copy all this intellectual property and sell plastic blocks.
Ya I know there is a large cost associated with the actual designs of the indiviual bricks and the sets as a whole, and licensing and all the other overhead that lego has. But if Lepin is able to produce the exact same thing of very similar quality (not matching lego yet) and still turn a profit, I wonder if that more than $500 difference in price is all needed to make up Lego's overhead and quality difference.
What if LEGO stopped making lego. What would Lepin do. Stop aswell. I get that its cheaper. I totally get it, but they still copy LEGO, so if LEGO stops, Lepin stops. And i know LEGO is overpriced sometimes, but if everyone buys Lepin, what do You think will happen. Still great review👍
If Lego were to ever stop, I think Lepin would likely still continue for a time. They release MOC sets pretty often, and also have some of their own sets as well I think. Of if Lego stays around and China changes its copyright laws and then prevents Lepin from selling these, then maybe at that time lepin will start to exclusively design their own sets.
I don't think everyone will stop buying Lego and start buying Lepin. 80/90% of the sales are sold in-store, bought by parents for their kids. Economy is doing well, money needs to be spend. Lepin will never take over Lego. No proof to back it up, but think about it rationally and logically.
JohnZorZ84 The MOC is copied from lego ideas builders where lepin DID NOT ask them for their rights to produce the set, and the designers themselves does not have any credit nor profits. At least lego is honest to give designers a credit and 1% profit should their set goes up fir sale.
buying already retired sets from lepin is fine with me since they tend to go for outrageous prices on the market. but for sets still in production you should buy lego or nothing if you can't afford it.
C4mp3r01 I've never said I can't afford it. I said I can't justify the price. Lego's prices on their larger sets is often ridiculous. I won't spend nearly $1,000 for a bunch of plastic when I can get that same bunch of plastic for a fraction of the cost.
And included with this set are all your favorite Star Plan characters:
-Roy
-Funn
-Liah
-Hand (old and young!)
-Crunchy
-D-4QP
-CC-812
-and 2 porns!!!
Edit: As a special bonus there is also a yourknock included!
spinningninja2 ha this is amazing
PORNS?
I can’t wait to get my porns in this set
You idiots! You've captured their STUNT DOUBLES!
What about Bin Can-owe-me?
While I'm not exactly in support of Lepin, I do not think the issue is as clear cut as, "LEGO good, Lepin bad." For instance, a lot of the preference for Lepin seems to revolve around accessibility. People are turning to the pirated option because the legit option is just too expensive or isn't in stock anymore. This makes sense. The same thing happens with video games (i.e. emulation being the alternative to retro gaming, it being inaccessible). On another note, people seem to be raising this idea that Lepin is unfair to the designers and is some sort of betrayal to them; however, it is worth noting that LEGO doesn't ever credit their designers on their respective sets. I point this out because it's silly for people to be morally grandstanding about LEGO piracy. LEGO will be just fine. The movie industry freaked out about piracy in the mid-2000s and then nothing happened. It didn't even budge the box office. I'm sure LEGO will be the same. They'll finish suing Lepin and this will all blow over. Someone who pirates is not a lost customer- they were never a customer in the first place.
Well said. Great points
For me I would never buy my 12 year old this $900 set in a million years. But I've seen this lepin set much more obtainable. I'm def considering for next xmas. LEGO didn't loose out cause I was never going to buy the real one anyways.
I will only support buying piracy when the model is out of stock. Otherwise if you can’t afford it you can’t afford it , as easy as that. No one has ever died for not owning a lego set. Go buy a smaller set instead. The only reason there is piracy out there is because people care shit about the designers and all the effort and sweat involved on its creation. Try explaining your kids that you are buying them piracy ( stolen creativity) in order to make them happy and let me know what they think. Are those the values you want to promote in the next generation, now wonder why our world sucks today ?
If you cant afford it, do without or save up, lepin is not worth no matter how much cheaper. I have experience with lepin and it's not worth it, the pieces start to come off on their own it's garbage.
@@Santanilla fuck that noise, and fuck your high horse, its goddamn plastic. Not to mention LEGO stole the brick design from kiddie craft so who cares. it doesnt hurt anyone to buy the knock off version of something I'd never of bought otherwise.
I love how it says a 9 thousand piece set is suitable for 6 year olds on the box
I built the lego death star when I was 7, so hey, who knows.
@@deatsbybre7162 DS I or DS II?
@@dwightk.schrute7173 1 lol. I’d have been over the moon if i managed to even find that DS2 set haha
It's 8445 psc/pzs bro
@@deatsbybre7162 yea me too
4:39 this man farts
Lmao 😆😆
4:42
Lol
Whahaahaha
He's eating too many cheese balls!
I just love all the guns in the extra pieces
O hello
Im the kid of umgeni steam railway
Wait, what
All my memories from when I was 6 comes flooding back when I watch your videos
The only love I will ever give Lepin, is that they are providing a building experience, even though they didn't dream it up themselves, to markets that would normally never get to have such a thing. There are plenty of 'barely making it' parents in the USA that would gladly take the Lepin solution, in a heartbeat. It's still intellectual theft, and quality wise, they cut every corner imaginable, not so much with manufacturing, but printing, designers, and those oh-so costly licensing agreements.
Barely making it parents shouldn't be buying toys that still cost 200 dollars. That's irresponsible
@@fritospie7982 Not all sets are that expensive. Also its not all that irresponsible. Buying the real $1000 version would be irresponsible. They're just toys. get over yourself
Bakamatsu Get over yourself, sir. My point still stands. If you are barely making it, under no circumstances should you buy your kid a 200 dollar toy. First world problems
Regardless I think the Lego sets now are overpriced.
How is this intellectual theft? Genuinely asking.
i think that a part from the extra 904 pcs came from the minifigure torsos and hands because they are counted by lego as one piece but they are actually five
Exoticbill _4_1_14 they also count stickers and stuff and pieces. They will bump up the piece count so it’s more appealing
I've never ever had a Lego™ set where I had to assemble every single little piece of the mini-figures, like I had to with this Lepin kit. With two hands and two arms to attach to each torso, each bottom part also came as the hip bit and two separate legs (thats' six more pieces per figure than Lego would have had). I also suspect that they may have used smaller pieces for, say, panels, but I haven't had a chance to compare with the original (though for completeness I plan to get one eventually).
As a person that has bought Legos his whole life, I can testify that the prices for Legos has been rapidly increasing in the past 10 yrs. Way above the inflation.
It’s not legos fault, it’s disney’s They want money, lego knows they can’t go that far but they have no choice, that’s why many sets are always at %30 off, they simply alternate.
@@adrianreyez2519 no, it is Legos fault for accepting that kind of treatment. "Only the best is good enough" lmao 🤡🤡
I actually like bootlegs of discontinued Lego products. Resell prices for discontinued Lego are ridiculous.
This aint a discontinued set though. if he was willing to spend over 200 to get this fake inferior version then he isn't a true collector. He is a bitch.
Darth Bane I’m sorry but not everyone has $1,099 to spend, this looks extremely similar and still good so why spend over a THOUSAND dollars for a company label?
It’s a lego set man, literally a toy made and designed by a toy company. You all are attacking a person who doesn’t have the money to get the real product so he opted for a less expensive model, it’s just like buying a cheaper truck that’s almost the same as another model from a different company, that’s design was probably copied, but no one gives a shit because it’s almost the same truck for a cheaper price. The point is, is that it really doesn’t matter, and saying “oh LEGO made the design and there just copying, so anyone who buys it is evil”, is just stupid, it’s just being smart enough to get a better deal
The Shock3r Exactly, i would never waste 1,000 For some plastic pieces.
@Alexander Wesley MATTHEWS Good point.
I got this Lepin set. I’m in the middle of building it but so far it has gone very well. I’m so happy that I bought this.
You bought conterfit buy what you want lepin is wrong
@@brandonbrickstudios1654 You're basically saying you'd rather use $800 instead of something cheaper despite it being the exact same thing
@@vP3ppy it isn't the same its counterfit
@@brandonbrickstudios1654I'm guessing you're a person who will never be able to afford this set and won't buy the Lepin version
@@vP3ppy yes
I have a mix of Lego and Lepin. I found this set great fun to build. The tolerances on the bricks are somewhat short of the Lego units, but this is reflected in the price point. As it’s a static display item, this is not a problem, although I have found that it has sagged with time.
I love how lepin includes so many extra gun pieces
I assume the extra 900 pieces come from detail pieces that lepin cannot or has not recreated and instead need to use 2-3 pieces
I have wanted the original UCS Falcon for a decade now. Even now I have 3 jobs and still can't afford the new one at retail price, it's insane. I love Lego and spent a ton of money (and my parent's money too) on sets over the years but this is just insanely priced so I'm pretty likely to get this set. I simply cannot afford the official one and this is pretty much the last chance I have before I head off to university to build the thing.
Bro did you build it yet
I understand peoples point on fake vs real but i refuse to waste 700 bucls for a star wars dropship that comes with a tank....when i can go and get a lepin replica for 88 ...yea lego is lego but in rare instances id buy lepin for example the gunship and dropship 59 for gunship and 88 for dropship.
Don’t get into a hobby you can’t afford.🤷🏻♂️
@@brickbinder6687 i ca very well afford it but just because its priced so high it dont mean its worth that much
FORGOTTEN ROBOT Z it’s fairly priced.
@@brickbinder6687 but why spend 10 times the amount just because some guy on ebay says so
@@matthewjones3246 or you can just wait till they come back in stock for regular msrp.
How does the overall quality of this kit compare to authentic Lego? Are the bricks & panels as solid / rigid and does the finished build feel stable when lifted?
Larger authentic Lego panels/plates have always been better than lepin in almost every measurable way. While I don't have a Lego version of this set to compare with, I have found no problems with the overall sturdiness of this set. It feels very solid, some small cosmetic pieces have shitty clutch strength, but the main pieces hold together very well.
JohnZorZ84 I really hope you respond so I can get some advice. I wanted to know if a year later it’s still holding up because I’m not fortunate enough to buy the real one but the lepin one would be affordable as a main x mas gift . So I just wanna know if any cracks or falling apart
People that get offended by Lepin need to seriously check what’s important to them in life
I purchased this set. It was advertised as discounted lego and showed up in a plain brown box a foot and a half square. I have never felt so torn between feeling ripped off and extreme warm fuzzies. No, I'm not letting it go. I'm never gonna give it up.
some lepin sellers take the box for some reason
Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down
@@knicetry947 instead of selling the set they just buy the pieces from another supplier and sell it like that
Everyone here yelling about Lepin stealing Lego design while pirating movies and music. I got it.
David Driscoll after 1 year still accurate
Do you pay for pirated music or movies ?
@@paulancion4131 well, haven´t you heard about sharehosters?
Dude, stop blaming people of things that you have no idea!
I’m at least a decent person and don’t pirate my movies/music either
The 900 piece count difference is odd alright. I know Lepin do count their parts differently, like each minifigure counts as anywhere from 6 to 10 parts as they count the head, headpiece, torso, each arm, hand, leg and midsection. And the same goes for any moving or hinged piece that can be split into two bricks.
But yeah, thank goodness for numbered bags... I got the Executor Super Star Destroyer a week ago, and it took me 8 hours just to sort through the parts...
lorcan0c ya I think I heard about how they count the mini figs as you described, but didn't know about the other hinged pieces... Still seems like a big difference though, oh well, haha
Damn, ya the SSD took me a while to sort as well, but sorting ahead of time is definitely worth doing.
Where did you order it ?
Aliexpress. Provides chinese goods internationally. Shipping can be a hassle sometimes, depending on what seller you go with and what kind of handling they offer or how reliable they are, but I've yet to have a bad experience with them.
Alright thanks, yeah I heard some stores should be avoided
lorcan0c wow
Good job
$1,000? No way... Lepin to the rescue!
Do you know that Lepin is a copyright violating rip-off?
@@Nikioko did you know lego is ripping us off with the mega high prices?
yes i feel that way
@@rabbioogway1089Is that your justification for violating laws? Besides, Lego doesn't force you to buy their products.
Nikioko no, but i like building stuff and i’m not gonna pay hundreds of dollars for it, if lego didn’t want so many knockoffs they would just cheapen their products, And its legal to buy so i’m not violating any laws
LEGO is better but they really need to charge less for their products.
They should, but I will continue to buy the sets I want like the falcon, was so much fun putting together and every time I look at it I smile so satisfying.
Destiny Waits I love Lego am a big fan it's just just for a little sets coast so much and even big they are so over priced WTF
Maybe it is better because it cost more? Ever think about that???
@@1timeemailaddress811 I got the same set it's Levin but it was so worth it I love it
its funny to buy Lepin Chromed Darth Vader figure for 1$ and sell on ebay for 1k $ :D
85% quality for 20% the price
0% quality**
Grand Master Yoda why 0%?
@@ls44443 pieces break off and you need glue, minifigures prints are awful, stickers look shit, much more flimsy, etc...
@@Thomas-rg1bj bullshit
Grand Master Yoda and you want to pay $ 600 more for that?
4:13 "67 meters wide"
Damn that's a big model. :D
Life sized model
Sixty Centimeters wide! 😂😂😂
How many people complain about "theft" from Lego download movies and music. lol
They great point, haha
How is that a great point? "Billy why did you take the cookie" ... "Well mommy, Suzy took one too"
@@fritospie7982 no, it's more like this;
Billy: mom! Suzy stole cookies!
Mom: Billy, I watch you steal cookies everyday
What you said makes no sense. You're still saying you're ok supporting theifs, because other people do it too. You don't justify you're bad actions based on other peoples bad decisions.
@@fritospie7982 It makes perfect sense. Allow me to explain. The original comment was this:
" how many people complain about theft from Lego, download movies and music."
He is pointing out the hypocrisy of people with pirated content complaining about pirated products.
So if someone has illegally downloaded movies and/or music on their computers, and they bitch about lepin, that would be hypocrisy.
This is only a comment on other people's hypocrisy, this is not a defence for buying the pirated product in the first place. A sort of "he who is without sin" kind of situation.
To be honest. Past 2 months I've dropped about $800 in official lego products. But seeing a few reviews about ko legos. I'm wanting to get some ko sets and see what kind of quality they are. I can see your point money wise. Do I buy Bandaid or a adhesive strip, both do the same thing, just what can you afford and does it accomplish the task needed. I just placed a order for a full set of all the Skooby-Doo, Ko Voltron, and Future (Nexo) Knights Knightington castle. Time to wait and see. But this Falcon is next on my list. Thanks for showing this off, I just wish it had more interior room. All that wasted space inside, with so many ideas of things they could have explored.
Try USA blocks
@@johnsabin3315 Is that a site or ko brand, I'll Google it and check it out. Thanks.
@@lesserz6310 site
Awsome review! Totaly understand why you bought Lepin. 800$ for the lego set is stupily high. Their is nothing justifying those prices besides greed. LEGO don’t even pay designers much money so it’s hardly the reason why their sets costs an arm and a leg.
Jesper, Oh you know how much they pay their engineers and designers, huh? Yeah okay
James Hannah yes, I know a women who has Done work for em in the past.
I could care less if i have LEGO,LEPIN,MEGA BLOX,or even CONSTRUX for fuck sakes i just like building things. And for those complaining GROW TF UP
Pirated Chinese kits are a great solution for most countries. For example, in our country, original Lego sets cost 2-3 times more than in the USA. Lego in many places is absolutely inadequate prices.
Do the bricks have a hard time connecting? I have never bought a Lepin set before but for the price of this set I might think about buying it. Great review!
From my experience with lepin the bricks connect good
Any adult can buy a $800 lego set, but is it really worth that much to them???? No.
Any reasonable adult wouldn't spend that much on a lego set let alone $1,000.
Building with legos should be enjoyed for everyone. I don't see anything wrong with people who buy Lepin.
And for a set that just going to sit on the shelf it's worth save your cash.
My thoughts exactly. This lepin set collects dust just as well as an official Lego set.
You can replace the wrong red plate with the grey one, which hides the small cannon at 6:50. I did so.
Much Appreciated for playing "The Asteroid Field" track off The Empire Strikes Back Soundtrack for this video.
It struck me as the most appropriate track for the falcon
I bought the same set and I am very glad how it turned out. Price is a major factor as the LEGO set was simply overpriced.
it definitely isnt overpriced, but it sure is hella expensive
Nice video dude! Lego purist myself, but I saw your vid come up and thought, why not! Just gained a subscriber!
Thank you kindly
Nice review. How do find the quality, for example the bricks holding together and clicking together? I have a 2 lepin sets and one is better than the other (the new one is better).
I have the Lego MF just don't know if I want to keep it or sell it and buy more sets with the spare cash. It was a Lot of money (1300 in AU)
thehaytch I find the vast majority of bricks hold together very well, the only bricks that sometimes seem to not hold together so well are the little tiny binocular looking pieces with little plastic rods. Just little surface detail pieces, the structural pieces hold together as strong as Lego in my experience.
JohnZorZ84 thanks for the reply.
Another thing to think about with lepin is that it may actually be Lego themselves capturing the low end of the market that way they can still capitalise on the IP. The other thought is as with all manufacturers when they move to China (Lego in 2015 I believe) is that they teach china how to make their products and then the Chinese just copy it. They kind of brought it on themselves, I have seen it with many products
I still love Lego. Have for years. Can’t justify a $800+ purchase on one set. Why not have Lego + Lepin? 😂
Sometimes I buy “Stop and Shop” brand coffee creamer...I like the “ princess castle”. Zero issue. They are stepping it up i guess. Didn’t get any defect either. Chose seller with best reviews. Only problem if that... was pieces scattered. Like a one piece for left of steps ( left slant foursie) was in a different bag, than the right side one.
I’ve spent appx $8k on LEGO. I’m not looking to resell the castle. It’s for me. As with most sets. Just like building. Like I like my no name creamer.
800 dollars, still cracks me up thinking about it. You know you could actually buy 1000 times more plastic in volume than is used to create the UCS Millenium set for that much? I know, I know, machinery, trademarks, overhead, employee's, I get it. Still doesn't change the fact that Lego has probably over a 400% margin on this product, and for that reason I'll never buy it.
It's just that price because there are people who have to design this and make all the steps in a book.
@@poedameron8160 its that price because it's the price that was set back in the late 90s,
It's like Nintendo in the late 80s, where 1 employee was generating a million dollars on average when divided by the company total staff,
It's high margins, it's people willing to pay it, it's lego wanting huge profits and huge savings in their bank
If you can make a high end taco and sell it for 30 dollars instead of 3 why not, just tell everyone you got overhead, and designers, and licensing deals,
Deciding whether to buy on lepin world however the cockpit piece looks weird. Thoughts?
I didn't notice anything strange about my cockpit piece. Seems fine to me. Have others had bad luck with the cockpit piece?
JohnZorZ84 I’m not sure. But on the website the cockpit piece has one part of it clear and the other part is printed it’s kinda hard to explain.....
John: calmly building LEGO
The music: shit a nuke is going to explode in 30 seconds everyone run for your existence!!!
It’s from Star Wars
It looks great, but where do you display this and the Super Star Destroyer?
good job mate, I did also buy many fake lego star wars sets because they are no longer on the market or because they are too expensive (super star destrooyer for exemple), yeah, lego is better but the price is just not justified for some sets because it's just a piece of plastic. Also, if I buy the old sets from someone else, I don't help lego or anything like that
You are not buying Lego sets. You are buying a knockoff brand. You can take a watch and make it look like a Rolex but it is not a real Rolex.
I’m debating on wether to get this or the death star
I just bought the lego city hall and i cant aford the orginal beause its expensive the lepin i bought is 2000 pesos and the original is 50000 pesos.The city hall i bought is good it have no missing piece and lego bricks not breaking and it also look thesame to the original
Can't wait, getting mine next week!! (Also ordered the 12k pieces Cavegod Sand Crawler but I have to wait so long before it's shipped that I ordered the falcon to keep me busy in the meantime :P). Loved watching the speed build with the SW asteroid field music in the background :)
Yes,Maybe we can refer this price jointoy.com/collections/new-arrival-1/products/king-81098-ucs-5278pcs-max-imperial-star-destroyer-75252
The effort to build the set make video edit it and release it is time consuming. So good job continue! And what ever the people are writing. Important is to have fun by the brick building.
Bricks and Toys mix My man :)
wkruit1 Understand you point. It is up to the end user if someone feels bad or not. Global market found the way how to sell it. And if there would not be a demand this companies would stop. I know for example one of the supplier of the injection molding machines for Lepin is HAITIAN. This company is also a supplier to automotive suppliers which supply they parts like bumpers to big brands as BMW, GM etc. Do they feal guilty? This is all about corparate business and the money. So end of the day at least the fun of the brick building should remain does not matter to who you pay.
it's not fun building lepin sets, the pieces do not go on well, and some are just completely stupid like the ucs star destroyer...all the magnet clips brokes becuase the magnets they used were way too damn strong so I tossed it.
Darth Bane I agree it is bit different feeling when you assemble bricks from Lepin sometimes they miss clutch power. Also if you build Lepin technic sets it is known the quality if the puns is bit worse as Lego. Or the Lepin servo motors are nightmare. But I had still fun with it. Because in my opinion it is still fun because this means modify and improve the models with some old spare parts.
Bricks and Toys mix Yes, they do parts for other companies. However, it USED to be legal, now, lepin lost the lawsuit to Lego, becoming illegal to sell copied sets. Its not about building fun or what, it just that it is NOT ETHICAL to do what you are doing(Buying lepin sets and support them to reproduce more)
I just bought the LEGO one for about $600 USD. It's too much for me but I always assume LEPIN will be crap with missing pieces - although it's probably not true. Still deciding whether to build or resell it.
You got it 200 dollars off, take your good deal.
sell it and get the lepin one saves alot of money for the same building experiance
piracy is horrible, and evil. However, after after a Lego employee went out of her way to make my wife, who at the time was fighting stage 3 cancer, feel worthless and unwanted and not good enough to shop at a Lego store, I FULLY support anyone buying Lepin. Lego can burn in hell for all I care
What
I would agree that one shouldn't judge a company by the actions of a single person. However, after that issue, I sent an email to Lego Corp detailing what happened and how much it upset my wife and me. We weren't looking for free Lego sets or anything monetary, just an apology. Nothing, not a peep from the company. So to me, that's the company as a whole in agreement with the single employee. That is why I buy Lepin. Heck, we don't even put most of the sets together, there is a noticeable difference in quality. But, as I previously stated, it's not about the product. It's about supporting the enemy of my enemy.
Ok ? What does that ONE person have to do with lego ???? That’s one employee they don’t represent the entire company you big crybaby
Shore Knightseer what? The company doesn’t care, you think the entire company unanimously agrees that they hate your wife ? What are you talking about they just don’t care it’s one person out of billions of people who die every second
billions dont die every second lmao
I would like to know where i can buy lepin. For research purposes of course
Bitch Door AliExpress has a variety of sellers. Your world of building blocks (yourwobb) is the most reliable
Imagine buying a giant set like this, then finding there was an important piece missing. I am gonna have to go with the Lego one as it is only £300 for me
I appreciate you doing the right thing.
Damn that’s 300 US dollars, kind of a steal if you ask me.
Everybody seems to be getting theirs in brown boxes. Where did you buy it that you got the black box?
What the hell is the printing on rey and finn at 9:03? They really need to get better printers to even challenge lego minifigs
Lepins mini figures have always been one of, if not the worst aspect of their sets.
I never knew Lepin existed. I’ll have to check it out. Would love to know someone’s opinion who owns both the LEGO and Lepin version of this to see what their thoughts on it were and of the value was really there.
People giving him hate for buying lepin for supporting chinese fakes,I personally would NEVER spend 800$ on a Lego set and i would change minor less quality for a way more reasonable price.
Then just don't buy it at all, easy. Never support stealing. I have the real one and it is worth every cent.
Dr. Ghoulenstein $800 is almost enough to get a car man. But if I do the calculations I probably spend more than $800 a year on collectibles
I was this close to buying a ucs millennium falcon, until I realized how horribly Disney has treated its fanbase. I will choose Lepin because I want my model, but I am not giving 1 more cent of my money to lucasfilm.
@@steff-the-ghoul Dude there is so much shit you can buy with $800 If you care that much about a toy brand that you're not willing to cut the price more than half. I think you need to get your priorities straight. You can pay a months rent for a 1 bedroom apartment with $800. Any person with a brain will go for the cheaper option. Yes it is piracy but if it benefits you than by all means be a pirate.
It’s not a matter of price, the real problem is: I wan’t to make LEGO bankrupt? If yes continue buy lepin and I hope the customs seizure the package. If not, u understand how to respect the work of others peoples.
7:26 its funny how you can notice some typos on the ucs sticker. still worth it for what it is tho imo, and the typos are barely noticeable
Well would you look at that! I totally never expected there to be Lepin haters in the comments. *sarcasm*
If I want to buy something then I will, you guys have no right to tell someone that they can't buy something with their own money that they earned. If they wanna buy Lego then they buy Lego, if they want Lepin then the buy Lepin, and if they want to free a small child from a desert planet then well your republic credits are no good here.
There are people just tryna ge the sets they wanted as a kid and just getting hate for it, it's obvious that someone who isn't a die hard Lego collector is gonna opt for the cheaper option.
Thomas except for intellectual property rights laws and such...
Please shut up you piece of lepin buying shit
nice video. where did you buy this from to get the box as well? everywhere i have seen, it just comes in a brown box
I showed near the beginning of the video where I ordered it from. It's a Koren website, but from a seller that no longer sells online. So unfortunately it's not an option anymore.
ah sorry, must have missed that part. thanks for the reply :)
I Dont suppot Theft and Copyright. Lego put a gigantic amout of time to create this set and to copy there work and sell it Is with out doubt ilegal. even if china think it's not.
It's not that China "thinks" its not illegal. It simply is not illegal in China. I agree that it is a bootlegged product which is illegal in most countries outside of China, I have never claimed it's not. However, in China this product is legal. So your opinion, and mine as well, makes no difference in regards to that.
Agree Johan Johansson this dude shuld be ashamed
Rockywater92 I'm not, even if you think I "shuld"
JohnZorZ84 Well you should be. You're supporting the undermining of western industry by China outright stealing products. I.e. you are supporting academic theft. This has been impacting Lego, their profits fell for the first time in 13 years earlier this year. If Lego does have to cut back it will be Lego and Lepin users suffering the consequences of less designs and sets like this. Not to mention Lepin has been found to be toxic with silicone gel on the pieces. If you can't afford or 'justify to buy lego' do everyone a favour and just don't buy it. Furthermore, if you want to sell it in the future you will not get a penny for it.
Well lucky for me, my feelings aren't dependent on your thoughts towards them.
You are right Lego profits were down in 2017, first drop in 13 years. However you failed to mention that 2016 saw Lego Group see it's highest revenue in its 85 year history. ( www.statista.com/statistics/282870/lego-group-revenue/ ) ( www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/03/09/lego-reports-highest-revenue-85-year-history/ ) So having a revenue drop in the year following their most successful year in history is hardly a cause for concern. The start of a downward trend? Maybe. Just a hickup in an otherwise steadily rising revenue stream? Also possible. Either way, I think Lego will be ok.
Toxic pieces you say? Thanks for the heads up, I'll make sure not to bring the Lepin falcon as the main course to the charity potluck this weekend.
Do me a favour too will you? You do with your money what you choose to, and I will do the same with mine.
Won't get a penny? I'm sure if I melted all my sets down and sold the raw plastic I could get at least a nickel, maybe even a dime if I polish it up real shiny like.
This thing is like a dream for people who grew up with lego. Unfortunately I cannot affor the real thing and Im really finding it hard to buy this one either. But anyhow. Its only thanks to Lepin I could some day enjoy this great thing. And when it comes to defending a brand, well bad luck. The products are way too overpriced.
I bought the lepin falcon a while back but as of today bought the lego version on the lego site. I will not bother putting together the lepin falcon till a much later date, I rather get lego as the quality is much better and the build experience is way way way better since you get them in numbered bags by the step which saves you a lot of time and space.
another issue I have with lepin lately is that the parts are dirty have weird grime stains on them which is a bad sign in my opinion. I'ts not on every part but enough to make me concerned.
Congrats on grabbing the Lego version, not always so easy to find available from what I hear. Nice that you have both versions, would be nice to get a side by side of the experience with both versions.
Yes Lepin pieces can randomly have odd stains and inperfections on them. Not all the pieces not even most of them, but in a set of several thousand peices you may get a handful (like 5-10 maybe more) that are partially melted, or have some odd stain. Lepin does number the bags for this set, but Legos way of organizing their bags is better I agree. Either way, have fun with the build
Actually it's easy to get the lego falcon now, it's been available for a good while now on the lego store.
I no longer wish to build the lepin set, I just dont have the time and patience it would require to go through all the bags, they are numbered but not by step it's pointless.
Darth Bane
When I made this video it was hard to find the Lego version.
The bags are numbered by step. There are 17 bags in the official Lego version. This just has like 10 different bags for each step, so open all the number 1 bags and that will get you through Lego version bag 1 then open all number 2 bags and so on.
799 US$? Outrageous, in Europe it costs 799 €!
Nikioko its because of tax
Us price does not include Tax
I have got the Lepin UCS Star Destroyer. Lepin is perfectly fine in my opinion
Its your opinion I hate lepin
@@brandonbrickstudios1654 why dumbass
@@Ted1942 counterfeit
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Honest opinion… do you guys think the quality is the same? Prices for Lego where I live is damn crazy!
The quality is definitely not as high as real Lego bricks, but it's pretty close. I'd say it's about 80 - 90% there. For my use it's good enough, it sits on a shelf and collects just as much dust as a real Lego set.
Lepin is a good way to get retired sets
guitarhamster that is true
Bricklink. And it is not a retired Lego set. It is illegal crap in a box!
@@user-kx7do4fh2j bricklink is full of scalpers that jack up the prices so they can make a profit and even if you part it out it's still going to be like twice the amount of a lepin set
@@AutomateYourMind do not try to justify Lepin because it is cheaper. They are stealing Legos intellectual property with almost the exact boxart. I mean "starplan" wtf. On their website they write Lepin fan ideas and show pictures of actual Lego sets. Theses guys are idiotic animals!
@@user-kx7do4fh2j But what exactly is the issue? Lego doesn't sell retired sets and thus they do not get revenue from them anymore anyway, so what is the issue with lepin copying designs they no longer sell? I say this as someone who has never bought anything other than lego, but you'd be hard pressed to explain how this in anyway hurts lego.
Did it come with the stand and info card?
Yes it did
I’m weird cause I want to buy LEGO and lepin 😂 bootlegs are cool to me
I’m poor and can’t afford real Lego and I have lots of fake castles and ships with hundreds of mini figures 10/10
@@jamesmarshall6932 u can get cheap lego sets
@@jamesmarshall6932 lmao im a newcastle fan
Alizz 😳
@@jamesmarshall6932 shut up
Watching your phone on the table...did you stay up all night to build this??
I built it in a single weekend.
People saying this is piracy, I think Lego selling a load of plastic bricks for £650+ is piracy enough!
Hey does anyone know does it include lego figurines such as chewbakka and han solo?
Yes it includes chewie and han
@@JohnZorZ thank u so much!
I enjoyed the video out of curiosity, still I don’t support Lepin.
About to pull the trigger and buy this, does it still hold up??
Man i got lots of Megablocks Halo sets and they were big and about 4x cheaper than Lego boxes the same size !!! Lepin is on the same level as Megablocks by quality.... And Megablock HALO figures actually had MANY JOINTS on soldiers hands and legs ( crazy detailed ) ... So if youre for just "model collecting dust " go for Lepin, if kids wanna play Lego is more durable for Mill.Falc. destruction /assemble over and over again... 😉
Nashmann Jango Thanks for the info
Welcome to wild capitalism, folks!
It's a fact that LEGO made something truly amazing and high value....
But that doesn't means that they should charge insane prices. $80 set is ok? It's $120 in my country where they actualy produce it... They make HUGE profit already.
Be happy for companies like LEPIN that can bring such an educational toy for those who aren't able to spend LEGO's overprices. Not to mention the deeply greedy second-market of sets and pieces...
Fun Fact: The less LEGO sells, the more friendly offers they have to do.
P.s.: Cheers, please throw away your cars as well because they're aren't original Ford T model successors.
You have a Toyota? Sure, asian copy, no buy? Be reasonable over your demagogues...
Capitalism works.
Well said.
Alexander Wesley MATTHEWS
You expect because of that people will pay for plastic 1k euro... dude most people in the world barely make 1000 euro in a mouth and even less
hi, why is there a model with +7000 pcs ans a model with +8000 pcs? thanks!
In this case I can understand buying the knockoff, though personally I just can't the pieces feel cheap and the quality isn't as great but if you just wanted to have something to display without the figures id say go ahead
Not immoral. Just common sense.
Star Seeker Not common sense. It is NOT ETHICAL.
N4M3LE55 Won’t someone please think of the poor companies?!
wkruit1 I don’t give a fuck. You can throw away your money as you wish
Any missing parts ?
really lame that this guy gets downvote spammed for really good and informative videos just because they're about lepin. get a grip Lego weirdoes
ScorPWNok I understand not having the money for LEGO set like this one but lepin literally steals legos design that’s why it’s so cheap they don’t have to design the ship also Lepin comes apart over time and LEGO sets once there discontinued can be sold for over 2000$
I think that his purchase was justified, the set was out of stock on the lego website and i can understand that paying 1000 usd for a lego set is way too much.
Respect your right to buy the stuff you want but I disagree with your choice.
The logician I agree. But, it saves dollars.
Where did you get this from with the box?
I understand why you buy lepin, but I’ll never support it. Lepin is a pirate company, and their piracy shouldn’t be supported
CMBricks I can understand that as well. Thanks for the civil comment.
CMBricks 100% agree if I was to ever buy lepin it would be for a prank vid or something this is so bad
Exactly!
JohnZorZ84 You could take more care to attribute the design work to Lego. Now it seems like you are endorsing the "design" of lepin, while in fact they just stole it.
Remember that time Lego stole the design for lego from a company called Kidibricks?
And then remember when Lego patented every brick design possible 10 years after stealing kidibricks design?
Where is kidibricks today? where is any lego competition?
There is none because they stole their way to where they are then made sure no one could do the same.
About the count - someone who did a review and had two thinks the difference is about the way it is build where special pieces have been replaced by smaller ones ... can't guarantee it is correct though ...
If Lego dropped their greed for money then Lepin wouldn't get any sales. Lego have just been greedy pure and simple and as most people cannot afford their prices for sets then Lepin are onto a winner with sets they produce being 2/3rds cheaper than Lego on average here in the UK. The Lego UCS Falcon set only costs £30 to produce, including wages, so you can see how greedy they are for your cash. As long as UK Customs allow importation I'm happy to buy Lepin sets and before you say im a Lego hater I have all my life bought and still buy Lego sets but if Lepin offer them at a fairer price then I'm ok with it, that's what drives the market. I have this set but have yet to assemble it due to no shelf space. This was a good review and puts my mind at rest as to quality.
You and I appear to be of similar mindset.
Proctor Productions people need to stop using the word steal, words have definitions and definitions are important. This is not a stolen product, this didn't "fall off a truck" somewhere. Stolen means that the original owner is no longer in possession of that item. These sets are not stolen. The designs have been copied and illegally reproduced. So these are bootleg/knock-off products. Not stolen products, regardless of using the qualifier "practically". Stolen designs?... I wouldn't even use it in that scenario, no one snuck into Lego HQ and stole designs from there. Call them bootlegs, knock-offs, illegal pieces of shit, whatever. But please use the appropriate words.
Proctor Productions These are knock offs or copies but that's immaterial as the U.S. garage model kit industry has been doing it for years with vac form copies etc so it's not as if Lepin are the bogeyman here, they are just exploiting a loophole to make money and isn't that the capitalist way (ironic it's a socialist country that's doing it lol)? Supply and demand and you do agree Lego are ripping us off. As ive stated before the actual cost of production of the UCS Falcon is £30 (about $23) including licencing/wages/designer fees, so the mark up is ridiculous! If Lego dropped their prices then I'm fine with just buying Lego and I still do buy Lego but not when the price is simply exploitative. Anyway I feel there are those that will always 'feel' bad over this issue and then those that dont but remember this, who is the more foolish in fueling a materialistic/exclusivity based ideal of what is essentially just a toy by paying silly prices for it? I'm a realist and very much grounded in 'I buy what I can afford' by voting with my wallet I'm enforcing that right and drumming it home to the companies that want us to be materialistically biased sheeple by not paying unrealistic prices. To quote couple of clichéd notions but... "who is the more foolish the fool or the fool who follows him?" or "a fool and his money are soon parted". Please don't feel this is a rant at you individually as I mean no ill intent but im just highlighting a point which transends so many things these days and I hold the fashion industry to blame for it all, exclusivity by false idiolgy ;-)
The definition of steal: take (another person's property) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it.
We are all entitled to our own opinions. No one is entitled to their own facts and definitions. Lepin is copying a lego design, yes. They are producing and selling a bootlegged product. These products are not stolen, the designs are not stolen. The designs are copied.Lepin is doing to Lego what Lego did to Kiddikraft.
it's called licensing fees and R & D. Do you think the intellectual property of Disney is free? Do you think the lego engineer's time is free ? The graphic designers for the box art, the manual, marketing, shall i go on? Stop trying to justify stealing because you're too cheap to dish out for the real thing. Same with any counterfeit item, if can't afford it, go without. Same situation when people buy a fake Rolex and try to justify it, if you can't afford a Rolex buy a fucken Seiko. If you can't afford Lego, the market has plenty of other brick companies that design their own sets. I am not sure where you pull this claimed "cost" for a UCS falcon. Where is your research to back it up?
I missed out on buying the Ghostbusters firehouse. I was going to spend the 350. Then they stopped selling it. Its too bad. Lego lost my money. Luckly Lepin has one available.
you idiot
thank the lord for illegal bootlegs saying screw you to high prices
Screw you for supporting theft.
You're lucky that you got a correctly printed canopy. I didn't. And I got a replacement for it that was in the worst possible state, broken & scratched all over the place. Meanwhile a genuine Lego one on Bricklink costs as much as the Lepin set. So that's one thing to keep in mind, Lepin won't care about missing or broken parts (which are many in this one, but all of the other ones are common). I also had the wrong color for that panel, but it's ok. And those stickers are completely wrong.
Holy Crap I Saw That Sit In Philippines It Cost $4000
Haha
I bought the lepin super star destroyer and it felt exaclty like real lego and it came with bossk ig-88 darth vader and admeiral piett and it was well done(but pls no hate on me im not a anti lego person i just done hve enough money to buy the real lego)and the mini figure are super detailed and darth vader was incredible.although its fake lego it still has good quality
Now with all respect if you’ve ever had lego then you’ll now that lego has much better quality
I'd rather be much of a no-sider to the argument of "lepin bad, Lego good"
But to be as concrete as with any given statement that has a balancing point to the argument
That's all coming from the consumer, and I'd care less if the asking price is good enough to rob someone out of their wage for other financial concerns
It's just for seeking what people want in an alternate option, regardless of counterfeit or heresy amongst Lego communities
I assume that the lepin falcon was pretty good.
The minifigs and stickers are TRASH though.
Do you have the link to where you bought this
Unfortunately the store no longer sells it, also it would only ship in Korea
"I definitely recommend this set to Lego fans" : not.
I’m bricks fan. Any brand is ok for me. Lepin actually wasn’t bad, they have similar quality as Lego. I’m not super rich guy, for me Lepin actually causing me to collect it. Only small build is under Lego, larger set will be Alternative brands. Third party brand actually getting mature in their design,especially war war version which Lego doesn’t have. As long you’re happy with your builds, any brand doesn’t matter. I’m open to any brand.
Fun fact: this is the only lepin i own, lego is way too expensive sometimes
eeew Your such an idiot
@@sergioholmes2358 you’re*
@@sergioholmes2358 the irony
Do you know the difference between Lepin and lego?
$$$
Its a bird!
No its a plane!
Actually its STAR PLAN'S EPIC MILLENIUM FALCON
Original 100% precent original content by lepin not star wars they took lepins plan.
EPIC THEORY👌
Thanks for the video. But when you comment about pricing... I don't know the real costs Lego have with designers, to project all these intricate new Lego parts, and to think about assembling those in a Playful way (also important) - no to tell quality control, marketing, and many many more. But this HAS a COST, people should know it at least. Another thing is just copy all this intellectual property and sell plastic blocks.
Ya I know there is a large cost associated with the actual designs of the indiviual bricks and the sets as a whole, and licensing and all the other overhead that lego has. But if Lepin is able to produce the exact same thing of very similar quality (not matching lego yet) and still turn a profit, I wonder if that more than $500 difference in price is all needed to make up Lego's overhead and quality difference.
What if LEGO stopped making lego. What would Lepin do. Stop aswell. I get that its cheaper. I totally get it, but they still copy LEGO, so if LEGO stops, Lepin stops. And i know LEGO is overpriced sometimes, but if everyone buys Lepin, what do You think will happen. Still great review👍
If Lego were to ever stop, I think Lepin would likely still continue for a time. They release MOC sets pretty often, and also have some of their own sets as well I think. Of if Lego stays around and China changes its copyright laws and then prevents Lepin from selling these, then maybe at that time lepin will start to exclusively design their own sets.
I don't think everyone will stop buying Lego and start buying Lepin. 80/90% of the sales are sold in-store, bought by parents for their kids. Economy is doing well, money needs to be spend. Lepin will never take over Lego. No proof to back it up, but think about it rationally and logically.
JohnZorZ84 The MOC is copied from lego ideas builders where lepin DID NOT ask them for their rights to produce the set, and the designers themselves does not have any credit nor profits. At least lego is honest to give designers a credit and 1% profit should their set goes up fir sale.
@@NMLE Lego copied Kiddiekraft.... how does it feel to be a hypocrite?
buying already retired sets from lepin is fine with me since they tend to go for outrageous prices on the market. but for sets still in production you should buy lego or nothing if you can't afford it.
C4mp3r01 I've never said I can't afford it. I said I can't justify the price. Lego's prices on their larger sets is often ridiculous. I won't spend nearly $1,000 for a bunch of plastic when I can get that same bunch of plastic for a fraction of the cost.
I'm definitely getting it sometime!
marilocsin just order it yesterday for 236$