Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/02/07/look-at-these-knockoff-lego-pr.html
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Also readily available on EBAY, Alibaba, etc etc etc…
The Lepin sets are quite good, unless of course they’re actually knockoffs of the copies… maybe they’re fake Lepin?
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Are these third/fourth/fifth* shift made or has some enterprising person spun up their own production to get into the “close enough but lower price” market?
* whichever is the one after their normal manufacturing shift
eta: meant reply on the whole thread 
There is a subreddit for it with kits reviews https://www.reddit.com/r/lepin/
I want a Star Plan Mortality Sphere!
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Nope. These have been around long before LEGO opened their factory in China.
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Lepin isn’t that great. They have much wider manufacturing tolerance, print shitty manuals, and don’t label their bags.
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BUILERDS wins it for me.
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Wow some of those are some seriously high end lego sets. Wonder if I could get a knock off of the $200 slave one cheap. This must be where those licensed LEGO minifig knock offs come from.
You have convinced me to actually make a purchase of these! Instead of a paint by number set that Legos have become, it might actually be a challenge again! That and I hear of a lot of people complaining that they often change up the models internally where they have less support but also less customized pieces as a result. Which adds to the challenge more!
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There’s a Star Plan arriving from EBay
It’s not licenced by Lucas but it sorta looks okay
There’s a Star Plan unboxing from EBay
The instructions are in chinese and the paint is wrong on Rey
I said:
Let the children use it
Let the children lose it
They’ll never know the difference
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“Star Plan,” okay, whatever. But “Pirates of the Cramarye?” What the deuce?
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‘Pirates of the Gramarye’ is an awesome name - dibs for a modern fantasy series.
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Staaaar Plans,
nothing but Staaar Plans,
those nutty 'ol Star Plans!
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My kids love Star Plan.
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More like “Star Plan 9 from Outer Space”
Except Star Plan 9 is coated in bisphenol-A and PCB.
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60 bucks… huh… hmmm… but not sure if they ship? Still, tempting…
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I would buy the hell out of that set. Ripoff lego Tor Johnson… YES!
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