Good work. So is lepin Lego ? Is it official ? Does it belong in the Lego thread ?
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Good work. So is lepin Lego ? Is it official ? Does it belong in the Lego thread ?
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Come on it's still a reverse engineered rip off. You knew exactly what you were buying (although you hoped it wouldn't be crap)They don't even try to make the back/control etc different.
Anyway, just saw the hotukdeals post and it's from lepin, what they probably mean is they are going to be making and taking orders for older sets.
Exactly, you get what you paid for, I am not getting another knock off again. It's money wasted.
Not every reverse engineer item sucks, new Sigma lenses are amazing, I would happily get any of their Art series lenses.
p.s. you don't need to link me...I have it like 5 ft away from where i am sitting right now. Not sure what you are trying to prove, I already said they are awful flashes. If you are trying to say "you bought a knock off too!" Yes I did, and it is crap and I would advise anyone getting it. I discourage anyone getting it, learn from my mistake. If however you take that as a reason to fill your camera gear with knock off flashes, knock yourself out.
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There appears to be a lot of people who want to buy the retired UCS Falcon. The options those buyers have is a fake set or pay the massive overs being asked by the horders.
So Lego are loosing out financially because they retired a popular set without having a replacement.
Lego is synonymous with pretty much every similar brick building system.
Does it belong in the Lego thread, why the hell not? The bricks are nigh on identical. The instructions are identical. The boxes are identical. The sets are identical. Lego themselves have conceded that Lepin is similar enough to their product that they have attempted a lawsuit.
To say it's nothing like Lego is to deny the whole argument you and others tried to make and completely nullify Lego's own lawsuit!
And yes, it's official Lepin.
If you wish to discuss Lepin products please go and make a separate, dedicated thread. Lets get this thread back on track with discussion about Lego, and ONLY Lego merchandise, otherwise I'll invite a moderator to clean things up.
There's a clamour for it because it's sold out and worth a small fortune. When it was available no one wanted it, at least not in great enough numbers. Even when it was retired it took months and months to sell out.
If they released it again tomorrow at todays prices around £600 I really don't think it would be that popular apart from people thinking they were going to be sitting on the next 4k set. People just want something they can't have or is in limited supply. I still remember the ocuk nonsense when that HP tablet was was discontinued and sold off. Every man and his dog wanted one but no one really knew why
Reselling old kits really isn't eating into sales for Lego.
Go for it.
I'd buy the Falcon for £430 tomorrow. I bet some people who are holding onto certain sets as an investment will have squeaky bums for a while until that rumour is either proved true or not.
Just waiting for the title of this thread to change to; ***The Official OcUK Modular Toy Building Bricks Thread***
Just waiting for the title of this thread to change to; ***The Official OcUK Modular Toy Building Bricks Thread***
I'd buy the Falcon for £430 tomorrow. I bet some people who are holding onto certain sets as an investment will have squeaky bums for a while until that rumour is either proved true or not.
Just waiting for the title of this thread to change to; ***The Official OcUK Modular Toy Building Bricks Thread***
Of course it's not true. The guy posting it is called Lepin. You really think they will re-run sets and stickers on demand for 10% mark up?
Not a hope it hell. You might as well ask Ford to start making the 1980's Capri again. As I said above, I want the 1980's castle sets, will they re-run that for me? A UCS set sold in limited quantities loses the appeal if you can order one whenever you like for an extra 10%.
It's a flat out lie.
Yeah I thought it wouldn't be true, but one can dream lol. They'll never stop counterfeit lego from China so releasing older stuff to the market would only likely take a small insignificant number of sales from people dedicated to lego, but everyone else who doesn't care would likely still just get the lepin stuff.
They're making ****loads selling current sets, no real reason for them to backtrack.
They're making ****loads selling current sets, no real reason for them to backtrack.
Not sure where you got £600 from?
The UCS Death Star was released and stopped at a similar period and similar price to the 10179 set and that has just relaunched for £400.
I would happily pay up to £450 for a 4k+ piece Falcon.
I'm sorry but I really don't see this happening specially for only a 10% on top of the price.
It has 5195 pieces. Similar period? I don't know what you are getting at but 10179 only ran from July 2007-2009. RRP back then was around £340-350?
The Old death star ran from 2008-last year. That's not a similar period, I don't know what you are getting at? It's also £400 a step up of £125 on the old set for an extra 200 bricks and inflation, probably a bigger disney cut too.
If they were to release that falcon again there's no way in hell it would be £450. I hope you would be right but doubtful. It's something I would never buy tbh, I always liked the idea more than actually getting it.
We need a mod to decide whether we carry on mentioning unofficial products. Otherwise the thread is likely to continue to derail.
Also guidance, if we aren't allowed to mention in here, can we make a separate thread
It's been done - I have asked for a mod to adjudicate.
Yeah, I saw that on the Ghostbusters HQ deal.
I can't see the operations director calling up a meeting Monday morning and going "Morning all. Dave, Bill, Fred and Sam emailed us over the weekend. Time to fire up the press, lads. Time to recreate the packaging, set up the picking lines, inform those involved that we're going to make 4 7780: The Batboat: Hunt for Killer Croc for these guys! Scheduled production is 10.10am to 10.13am. Next, Jack emailed on Friday at 7.21pm desperate for...".
The tooling should already be in existence. Most sets have very few unique parts. Printing - I don't know what process they use but again any plates should be stored still.
However yeah - 10%, just no. Lol.
Lego bricks have changed extensively over the years both in shape, finish and material. If people wanted older sets then LEGO would either have to make them with the more modern pieces or retool their machines for the old stuff.
I got an ancient bag full of lego bricks from about 50 years ago and the difference between then and now is phenomenal.
I got an ancient bag full of lego bricks from about 50 years ago and the difference between then and now is phenomenal.