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There's a buttload of disassembled sets that I wanna do in the future, this is turning into a really fun hobby. Besides just building the sets themselves, which is hella fun already.
Now most of these aren't gonna be Lego and instead other bricks, cause it's just so goshdarn expensive, but honestly I've not encountered many issues with any of these.
The quality of the bricks is pretty dang good. These examples less so, but I've got some medieval sets that were from GoBricks and I'm seriously impressed.
Music is still by me. I think I'm just gonna keep going at it instead of using other royalty free stuff. It's been pretty fun experimenting, even though I have 0 theoretical music knowledge lol
Twinklepot
+1 for the music alone!
Cobalt1
Want to see stop motion lego millennium falcon
loopdesigns
My husband recorded himself building the huge one. It's not stop motion. He said if he kept going it would have taken about 24 hours. It took 30-40 total. He had to take it sort because we have no where to put it.
Fips
At some point I will for sure. Maybe like a small version first though, ha.
atat23
That would be some project, took me days, I imagine the stop motion part makes it about ten times longer
Fips
Plus the logistics of it as it's not just a building you build from the ground up. I'd need scaffolding for it, ha. I've just finished a big building of 2411 pieces and I think it took me like 8 hours. So yeah, the falcon could very well be like 30-40 hours building alone. And then the whole editing process, too!
TheUnnamedPoet
Off brand bricks are usually fine. They rarely cause too much problems unless you start mixing them. That's where it can get a bit tricky. I have some off brand baseplates that are just a hair or two off of the real things, but because of that they don't quite line up right and will start to bow in the middle when they're built on
Fips
Oh, yeah. I think some Wange-Set had that and I didn't put it together with everything else. But I've not had these problems at all with Xingbao, Cobi or Gobricks. That's what I mostly own. But I do have the luxury of having Bluebrixx as a store here and if there are any issues they replace it all easily.
Also just paying like a fifth of what Lego charges I'm inclined to excuse a few mistakes.
TheUnnamedPoet
Mega Bloks (or Mega Construx now) was bad at first, then they got REALLY good for a while, and now they're back to using cheaper plastic and they just don't feel or look anywhere near as good as they used to. The baseplates I've got were from a cheapo dollar store, cause I could get the 10" x 10" plates for $1.25 a piece. They work for most things, but if I put any properly sized lego plates on them you can definitely tell their measurements are slightly off
Fips
Yep, I think I own like 20 mega bloks pieces and they're in the "random awful stuff" compartment, ha.
Lego could use more competition so this kinda sucks.
You get any of the other brick manufacturers I mentioned? Or any at all without having to import them yourself? Talking to Americans about this I noticed it's almost exclusively just about mega bloks.
TheUnnamedPoet
The ones you named aren't too familiar to me I'm afraid. The ones I usually see around here are stuff like Dragon Bricks or the dollar store ones (can't remember the brand name off the top of my head.) I'm in Canada so our selection probably isn't much different from the Americans. Mega Bloks were really shitty back in the early 2000s, but in the late 2000s and 2010s when they had secured the Halo and CoD licenses, they started to make some much better stuff. Was rivaling lego for quality.
Fips
For Cobi and Gobricks I'd go so far and say they are even better than Lego. Incredibly consistent colors. Fewer stickers and more prints and no colorama inside the sets. That always bugged the hell out of me. Others are hit and miss.
But yeah, if you can't get them locally you'd have to import. Which throws the whole price argument out the window.