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I mean… yes, sort of? I actually have a couple of those, I just put together a bonsai tree set from “JIANPINWORLD” a few days ago. It’s a nice set design, but the quality is… not good. The fit of the pieces reminds me of Megablocks sets from the 90s, which is to say that the brick tightness is very hit-or-miss. The set involved putting little flower pieces onto sticks, but the holes in the flower pieces varied considerably, sometimes too tight to fit on the stick and sometimes too loose to stay attached. There were small hook parts, two of which cracked in half while tying to connect them, and there were no spare parts included. The coloration of the pieces is inconsistent. The instructions are also poorly laid out and badly printed.

The sets you’re talking about are very much an example of “you get what you pay for”.

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BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Never heard of JIANPINWORLD sounds like a rebrand set. There’s various tiers of quality, anything that uses bricks made from GoBricks bricks like Mould King, Cada, Pantasy are top tier, tbh Jie Star are excellent too and Reobrix which use Jie Star bricks. Consistency and clutch are all fine. Stickers and minifigs can sometimes be a bit lacking, but if you value those at £-5-600 more power to you.

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FrederikNJS@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I have both bought and been given some of these “knockoff” sets, and while the resulting build. The resulting build is pretty, but fragile. The tolerances on the bricks are bad, to the point that some required a lot of force to join, and others are so loose that they can barely carry the weight of the bricks on top. I have also consistently found at least 1 brick that wasn’t molded fully, and was therefore useless, with no spares. The colors are also usually quite uneven. The instructions are usually fairly easy to follow. But the build methods are bad. I often see bricks stacked directly on top of other bricks, with no interlocking, resulting in whole walls being able to easily fall over.

The knockoff are fine if you don’t have the money to spend on Lego, but you really also get what you pay for.

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