I paid $4 for a 1000+ piece non-LEGO car set on TEMU so you don't have to

Temu doesn't sell you products for profit, it sells your data.

Not gonna lie, I bought an F1 car kit and they are about 95% accurate to LEGO bricks, just a couple loose pins and the other bricks integrate without issues. It cost $50 and was a great build, looks more accurate than the Merc or McLaren.

i have bought lots of unofficial lego sets over the years (mainly rifle replicas) and if i can give any tips to others who are considering getting a set that's not official Lego, here is my heads up: [i will refer to official legos as officials and unofficial lego sets as UO] • make sure it is a set you really want and REALLY want to complete. everyone has had remorse building a (official) Lego set due to not wanting to spend more time to finish. best part is officials make it easy to pick up where you left off; it doesn't help UO's case when the instructions "booklet" (sometimes they email you a pdf of instructions) is not as easy as it should be to figure out what piece needs to be added or where it goes on the build step. I have also spent two continuous days building a large UO set so you can imagine how sick of building legos i was after i was finished. (Surprising even to me who has played with legos his whole life) • i cannot stress this enough, make sure you have you big lego piece bucket handy. some UO's I've received have had pieces missing. not to mention how they all are one color so it blends in. you remember how i said it took me 2 days to build a large UO's? Half of one day in total was spent looking for that one piece to finish the step, which it was either A. hidden underneath hundreds of similar pieces or B. simply not included making me more frustrated than necessary and the easy fix was to dig in my Lego box for that one piece. • your set WILL have some pieces that were poorly sculpted cut or made. not a terribly bad feature but in some cases it can compromise your build, some studs have little to no friction holding them in place when two pieces are put together. all in all, if you get past the obstacles then you will have a great Lego set that Lego themselves did not release. which is worth it for those supercars or those bolt action rifle replicas and loads of fun to play with the features they provide. Thanks for reading if you did, i hate long comments on YouTube too. I hope this helps a lot of builders out there🕋🧠

Looks more like “I can’t believe it’s not Lepin” ! 😂

2:50 These numbers are probably from the mould from the injection moulding machine. I work as a injection moulder, and we have those tiny numbers on our moulds aswell. Those numbers are the cavity numbers. If you, for example, take a sample to check if the parts are good, you'll automatically check if there are all cavities (all numbers, for example 1-8) in that sample. If there is a number missing, there could be something wrong with the mould or moulding machines settings.

I have 2 fake legos already, FORD F150 and WALL-E both were good quality and pretty cheap the ford was 20$ and Wall-E about 7$. I like lego and would buy them, but 150$ for a plastic car is too much for me.

These type of videos are so fun to watch. you should make a video comparing real lego supercars to knockoffs

As you said don't trust these chinese brands that are not Cada. Most of them basically steal MOCs designs and that's really disrespectful and damaging for the Afol community.

I found in my local toy shop brand Rastar. I bought Creator Expert/Icons set(Pagani Zonda Cinque) for 50 euros with 1024 parts. Very good parts quality, some custom parts for this set and every details are printed(without stickers). Very good compatibility with Lego parts, so example wheels from this set won't have problem in Lego MOC, if you will want custom wheels for better look. Sometimes buying on internet, special cheap bricks sets is like cat in bag, you don't know, what you buy, parts quality in specific price. Example my first Lepin set had bad quality, parts hadn't same quality, but if you didn't look on details, look like original Lego set(I bought cheaper version HP Hogwarts castle from second serie) + stickers on transparent background, perfect fit with parts color.

TBH this kind of Legos is a god sent for people living in the third world country, where average monthly salary goes for $328. Some Bootleg kits are actually decent, example the bootleg version of the lego ferrari daytona sp3, theres even a video about comparing the two sets which is shocking how the quality rivals that of the more expensive one, which is not even 1/3rd of the price.

I've bought 2 different Lamborghinis from Aliexpress, which definitely share origins with this model. So far I've been quite satisfied, as they look nice and can be motorized (instructions included, motors package optional or being-your-own, wireless 2.4GHz bluetooth or proprietary). I have them on display, because I like the non-concept Lamborghinis. Ah, for the first car I had to change the wheels to my own (later ordered rims with a matching yellow-orange color) because they were interfering with some parts of the frame and steering. The second car (with a tri-beam headlight) was much better. And interestingly, it actually offered two appearances: completely black or stickered "cyberpunk" theme with neon cyan-blue-purple-magenta. Sticker guide was included but it had the model and the stickersheet a little different from what I assembled, but nothing major.

Thank you for this review and for recomending CaDA as alternative! I hope people will soon realize that some platforms are better than others where you buy your stuff or better not buy at all.

I bought two sets from Temu. Darn cheap. One was the copy of the Orchid set by Lego and the other one was coffee shop. Both cost around 15-20 bucks. The quality of orchid was 6 out of 10, and the coffee house was 8 out of 10 (10 being the Lego standard.) The experience was really good, but sometimes especially the technic parts are stiff and take a toll on the fingers. Final verdict: look for decent designs, because some of their designs are really innovative. Quality of the pieces depends on your luck.

Thanks for a very detailed and honest comparison of these non-Lego brands of "Racing Bricks" ... based on your review, it is clear Lego is still the far better choice particularly in regard to build quality, accuracy, stability, along with associated license agreements for various kits! As a serious collector, price is not my only consideration but also the ethics of any brand I choose to support. Honestly, I am not a fan of plagiarism, copies, or patent infringement. Respect along with actual purchases should only go to the brands which do the original R&D (including time, effort, & investment). Any other brands which attempt to capitalize on the true innovators, such as Chinese knockoffs of Lego in this case, should be boycotted and not receive financial support (even if a few dollars are saved during a potential buying decision)!!!

I’ve ordered lots of “Lego” from Alliexpress, and with one exception they’ve always turned out to be great. The one exception was down to parts not fitting well which can easily be sorted by ordering a few parts from bricklink

for the money these builds are 110% a lot of this knock of lego is good it hard to keep it separated for my real lego. I've had some kits that are not as great. but the bulk I've bought are incredible. for these knock offs to only fall slightly below lego standard to an lover of lego. yet be so much better value is amazing i grew up not being able to fully explore my creative lego ideas as a kid because it was so expensive . that sucks, and i know im not alone. for there to be such a good cheaper option its absolutely 9/10 experience

I got one of off Amazon that looks almost identical for $30 and it has decent quality

I'm glad you gave a shoutout to CaDA, as I was quite impressed with their Alfa Romeo F1 car.

Piece quality looks very poor. For 4 dollars i think I’d still give it a miss

I have a lot of temu "lego" mostly trains and city stuff, the technic stuff from them is not great and tend to be very lose. The main problem is a lack of quality control, so i have gotten sets that are missing critical pieces, but i have a huge collection of lego bricks so it has never been a big deal, it is just a risk i take.