LEPIN 05005 STAR WNRS First Order Special Forces TIE Fighter Review

Yes! Finally a LEPIN Star Wars review! This time, I'll be reviewing the LEPIN 05005 STAR WNRS First Order Special Forces TIE Fighter which is the clone for Lego 75101 First Order Special Forces TIE Fighter. As usual, let's compare the boxes. They look exactly alike...apart from the manufacturer and typo spelling.

Original Lego 75101

LEPIN Box (Front)

LEPIN Box (Back)

Let's look at the packaging inside. Fortunately this is a small set so assembling would be a breeze.

Let's start assembling!

Ta da! Now, to the most important part of the review - the VERDICT! There was a missing block...well not exactly missing but LEPIN gave me the "inverted" version of the block. Refer to picture below. Luckily, my supplier had a spare tile and he gave it to me for FREE! Another issue I faced was I can't snap the TIE Fighter wings to the body firmly because of a few tiles preventing it from snapping in. I had to remove 2-4 tiles to fit them in. Thirdly, the most common LEPIN problem - the spring shooter. It does not work! When you pushed in the Arrow 8M (the missile), it is supposed to snap in and lock nicely like in the second picture below but for LEPIN, it doesn't snap in and lock. And the fourth issue which everyone knows...mini figures quality...Definitely can't fight LELE. Apart from the highlighted issues earlier, I have no other complaints. The brick quality and colors definitely beat LELE.

The missing and extra tiles

Spring Shooter

Now for the 360 degrees view!

I'll be reviewing the Kylo Ren's Command Shuttle next, followed by LEPIN Poe's X-Wing Fighter and HOPEFULLY, Decool UCS Tumbler!

Well, that's all folks.

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LELE 79209 STAR WART POE'S X-WING FIGHTER Review

Welcome back to another episode of "rate the bootleg Lego Star Wars"! Today, I'll be reviewing bootleg version of Lego's 75102 Poe's X-Wing Fighter, the LELE 79209 Star Wart Poe's X-Wing Fighter. Let's compare the original Lego's and LELE's box.

Original Lego 75102

LELE Box (Front)

LELE Box (Front)

I love this set! Why? Because of the bright orange color that stands out, it's easier to find bricks you wanted. Assembling Kylo Ren's Command Shuttle and Millennium Falcon was slightly tougher because most of the bricks are the same color! Refer picture below for the bricks packaging.

Bricks packaging. See? So easy to spot the bricks you want!

Since the bricks are quite little, I didn't bother to group the bricks into containers like I did for the Millennium Falcon in the previous post. 

The initial stage was to assemble the loader and access ladder which was easy. 

In a blink of an eye, the main body was completed. Much much easier than the rest of the bootlegs because of the color.

Now, let's add some fusial thrust engines at the back and transparisteel canopy for the cockpit. Wow, you must be thinking I'm some kind of geek but I'm not. I just Googled for the names. Refer to Googled picture below.hahahaha

Part of S-Foil Wings and BB-8 added!

Both S-Foil Wings up. Notice that the upper and lower wings are sticking together? We'll need to use the Technics mechanism inside to open up the wings into "X" shape. You probably wonder why the folded wings? The foils on each side locked in place flush against each other; during combat, however, the foils were folded out to increase the spread coverage of the laser cannons mounted at the tips of the foils. This gave the craft its distinctive "X"-like appearance when viewed from the front or rear. The cannons on some earlier models could not be fired with the S-foils in locked position, perhaps as a safety feature. During hyperspace travel, the S-foils remained locked to conserve energy. Again, I Googled that s**t up hahahaha

Voila! Folded out wings! Ignore that tofufa container supporting the X-Wing Fighter.

If you look at the picture below, you'll notice there are several rubber bands near the fusial thrust engines. I suspect it will break sooner or later (Made in China ma...). I'm not sure our normal rubber bands can replaced it or not. 

Animated GIF below for the folding in and out of the wings.

Now for the 360 view!

So, what's the verdict? Building the X-Wing Fighter was fun because there were less delays from finding bricks. There were no missing bricks and some extra bricks BUT there was one brick, the orange 1x6 brick was missing. Instead there was an extra 1x6 light bluish gray brick. In case you can't spot it, it's on the top left hand of the S-Foil Wing. Yes, that ugly one miscolored brick. Dammit! The spring shooter, or the PEW PEW launcher works perfectly. I noticed only LEPIN and BELA had the spring shooter issue.

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LELE 79211 STAR WART MILLENNIUM FALCON Review

Today I'll be reviewing the LELE 79211 Star Wart Millennium Falcon. No, it's not a spelling typo. Due to the copyright issue, LELE had to rename Star Wars to Star Wart. Same goes to LEPIN; they renamed it to Star Wnrs instead. I was suppose to get the LEPIN version but unfortunately the stock takes forever to come in.

I'm pretty sure all my readers knows about the famous Millennium Falcon. If you do not, refer to the picture below. It's the starship from the movie franchise, Star Wars.

Now, let's look at the packaging. Yes, this is the exact clone of the Lego 75105 Millennium Falcon.The font for the word "Star Wart" itself is a blatant copy of the original Star Wars. Refer picture below to compare both packaging.

The box is actually quite big; 22.5 in (W) x 15 in (H) x 3.5 in (D) and weighs about 2.8kg.

Original Lego 75105 Box

LELE Box (Front)

LELE Box (Back)

Now, let's look at the contents (refer picture below). The bricks are packed neatly in plastic bags BUT take note that the plastic bags are not labelled and the bricks in each plastic bag are grouped by size rather than assembling sequence unlike Lego. And yes, it is worse than finding a needle in a haystack. But you'll get used to it if you assemble a lot of bootleg Lego. 

Box Contents

So, how do you start? I suggest you gather as many small containers you can get hold off and sort the bricks like me. Usually I'll dump all the smaller parts into the containers. Those larger ones I'll dump it into the cardboard box.

Box Contents (after sorting)

Warning! Please check the brick colors carefully before assembling. The brick colors in the manual might be confusing at times especially the dark bluish gray, light bluish gray and tan. I made a mistake with one of the colors and it was impossible for me to reverse the process without dismantling everything. But luckily I had another spare brick to replace it.

Okay, let's start assembling! Picture heavy.

Voila! It is completed! Took me more than 6 hours to complete it because I spent most of the times looking for bricks, More pictures from different angles.

So, what's the verdict? I'll rate this set 9 out of 10. This set would have gotten 10 out of 10 if the colors on the manual were clearer and the bricks packaging were...better. I would have save a lot of time if the bricks packaging were done nicely like Lego. Not a big issue here...actually I'm kinda enjoyed myself more. The color of some bricks are a bit off especially the red...maybe it's just my eyesight. The mini figures looks better than Lepin.

I have created a 360 degrees view but I'm not sure you guys can see/use it or not. Check it out below.

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