I don’t build Modular’s, being more into 1/8th scale technic cars. But surely with Lego part of the fun is adapting the sets, I do it all the time to make the cars more lifelike or just better (and change all the pins to a blending colour!) so, adding your own interior setup to the modulars would be fun rather than expecting it to be all there out of the box. Putting together desks, chairs, counters, customers etc.etc.is so simple.. unique and fun!
Another good video. Normally I buy just Lego brand but really want the Ghostbusters HQ and there is no way I can pay the prices they want on secondary markets. Can’t wait to see your city grow. I’m glad I’m along for the ride!
that is the exact set that has me looking at knock off brands as well, Lego isnt out any money as it is years out of print and secondary market on it is ridiculous
@@TheCobraReport secondary market.... Now I think these are the among the folks who get most militant about the 'other/off brands', especially when these other brands make copies of retired sets. Those of us who want a set for its aesthetic or whatever, but are not prepared to pay the often ridiculous prices in the secondary market, will happily buy a good other brand for considerably less. So this impacts the secondary markets profit margins. But hey. I was looking for a small, retired set last year. Some 70 odd on Ebay alone, the day I looked, but all 'Rare' and hundreds of dollars (Worst was over $600). I found a perfectly acceptable other brand for about $20. Does the job and saved me squandering hundreds on over-priced sets.
buying Lego brand baseplates would be a good way to both fix the problem and still support the brand where you can. I have quite a few knock off brands that are built on the name brand baseplates and MILS plate them and it works great
Do you know anything about the knockoff Avengers tower? I really want that set but the official one is 500 and Aliexpress has it for about 130. I don't think anyone has made a video about it.
also i think you should move the movie place on the right of the store then move drs stranges place where the movie place was and the orange building next to the movie place but a road right there 00:29
Nice video! I also recently built this (fake) modular that I bought at a comparable low price from Youmko. I have put it next to the fire brigade building (with a very nice, more detailed and equally cheap clone of dr Strangelove's sanctorum on the other side of the fire brigade). This combination looks great imho.
I like those fakes. The original ones can cost 400-1000 euros/pound and that is insane. I was often lucky with the baseplate or I just connected the next plate to it. To fix it remove all upper floors and decorative bricks/parts. Get a new plate from wange or Lego. Base floor upside down and I guess one could remove the building, leaving a base layer of bricks.
I will try Temu to buy modulars if the price is better than Ali. Thanks for sharing! P.s. I bougth the emporium when it came out long ago; still today is one of my favourite. I would love to see the Natural History Museum too.
As someone that owns the original I find the quality decently compared to the original. The colors are a bit off and the quality isn’t as good as the real deal.
I love this series of fake Legos it's inspired me to just get the knockoffs for the city I'm planning I can get the ones out now but these older ones are too expensive to justify buying
Really appreciate comments like this and viewers like you! Have a great day and I hope your city goes tremendously! If you ever want to talk fake Lego and city building get in touch with me on instagram!
Gads! That baseplate looks awful. My Detective Office wasn’t that bad, and I still had to replace it with LEGO. My Diner baseplate was pretty good. I have a Brick Bank from Ali that I still haven’t unwrapped. My other modulars are genuine. I quite like the exterior of the Emporium. The interior needs a bit more pizzaz though. Mine is positioned at the end of the block, next to Green Grocer. Caffe Corner-> Parisian-> Market Street-> Fire Brigade-> G Grocer-> Emporium. I think that’s the first six.
Gee idk, a display piece that basically sits on your shelf majority of the time for 1/7th the price that basically looks visually indistinguishable? Yes, in no world is it not worth it.
mine too, maybe it was because of the MILS pressure he was talking in the video. But I get it, maybe it was a little stressful. (even if I just wrote to use Ali's bricks and nothing more, btw idk)
Hey! I’m really sorry! I haven’t deleted any comments and don’t have any restrictions on so that’s really weird. I always value and love seeing your comments on my videos every week so this is really annoying to hear
Really sorry. No pressure getting to me about the MILS😂😅. Not sure what’s going on with RUclips. Definitely don’t have any restrictions on my comment section and I haven’t deleted anything. I’m really sorry for this happening.
It should not be a worth or not worth question. It is legal or illegal question. Playing off-brand building block is not a problem, but if the set is exactly copying from LEGO, it is illegal and not encouraged.
@@BallisticBricks42 Unfortunately those copycat companies also copy current market Lego sets. We should respect intellectual property, stealing other designs to make profit is not acceptable. Lego make zero profit on retired set, but counterfeit product definitely hurt the brand and encourage people buy the cheap knock-off sets and not an excuse to justify the knock-off behavior. Some other brand building block companies do produce their own design products which are really great. You can introduce those original design.
@@BricksBoy I’ve started working with alternate companies to show off their stuff too, but I also just want to build a city at the end of the day for myself and this is the only way to afford that. I’m just documenting my progress and while I see the downsides in it and agree, I still just enjoy making content and building my city
Thanks for your review of this set. It is always an individuals choice of what to buy. One thing that I take into consideration is resell value as I am not sure there is any with alternative brands?? Even tho I don’t plan on selling my sets when I purchase them I might later as I am at this point with my HP sets. Also looking forward to your video about converting to the mils system or not. I am not sure I want the added expense
I don’t build Modular’s, being more into 1/8th scale technic cars. But surely with Lego part of the fun is adapting the sets, I do it all the time to make the cars more lifelike or just better (and change all the pins to a blending colour!) so, adding your own interior setup to the modulars would be fun rather than expecting it to be all there out of the box.
Putting together desks, chairs, counters, customers etc.etc.is so simple.. unique and fun!
Another good video. Normally I buy just Lego brand but really want the Ghostbusters HQ and there is no way I can pay the prices they want on secondary markets. Can’t wait to see your city grow. I’m glad I’m along for the ride!
Really appreciate your support!! I’m definitely interested in the Ghostbusters HQ for my city. Might be worth a video!
that is the exact set that has me looking at knock off brands as well, Lego isnt out any money as it is years out of print and secondary market on it is ridiculous
@@TheCobraReport secondary market.... Now I think these are the among the folks who get most militant about the 'other/off brands', especially when these other brands make copies of retired sets. Those of us who want a set for its aesthetic or whatever, but are not prepared to pay the often ridiculous prices in the secondary market, will happily buy a good other brand for considerably less. So this impacts the secondary markets profit margins. But hey. I was looking for a small, retired set last year. Some 70 odd on Ebay alone, the day I looked, but all 'Rare' and hundreds of dollars (Worst was over $600). I found a perfectly acceptable other brand for about $20. Does the job and saved me squandering hundreds on over-priced sets.
buying Lego brand baseplates would be a good way to both fix the problem and still support the brand where you can. I have quite a few knock off brands that are built on the name brand baseplates and MILS plate them and it works great
I’ve done that a few times, but can’t afford to do it all the time. I am thinking about MILS but again a lot of added price. Thanks for watching!
Do you know anything about the knockoff Avengers tower? I really want that set but the official one is 500 and Aliexpress has it for about 130. I don't think anyone has made a video about it.
I’ve heard from people it’s good and the at it’s safe to go for!
@@BallisticBricks42 Nice, thanks!
also i think you should move the movie place on the right of the store then move drs stranges place where the movie place was and the orange building next to the movie place but a road right there 00:29
That’s a good suggestion I’ll try it out!
If you change the baseplate to MILS then it will make it stronger and stop the bends..
Been suggested this a lot. Still thinking about doing it, but the price is a daunting put off
Nice video! I also recently built this (fake) modular that I bought at a comparable low price from Youmko.
I have put it next to the fire brigade building (with a very nice, more detailed and equally cheap clone of dr Strangelove's sanctorum on the other side of the fire brigade). This combination looks great imho.
I might try this since i have those three! Thanks for the suggestion have a good day!!
I like those fakes.
The original ones can cost 400-1000 euros/pound and that is insane.
I was often lucky with the baseplate or I just connected the next plate to it.
To fix it remove all upper floors and decorative bricks/parts.
Get a new plate from wange or Lego.
Base floor upside down and I guess one could remove the building, leaving a base layer of bricks.
Nice suggestion! Hadn’t thought of that!
i love your videos hopefully im able to build my own lego city soon
Go for it! Can’t wait to see your progress!
I will try Temu to buy modulars if the price is better than Ali. Thanks for sharing!
P.s. I bougth the emporium when it came out long ago; still today is one of my favourite. I would love to see the Natural History Museum too.
I’m looking at picking up the History Museum later in the year. Haven’t got my hands on it yet but have seen it in person and love it!!
@@BallisticBricks42 me too...maybe this summer will be the time 😁
hairdryer and some clamps should do great for the baseplate
Might try it, but warmth has failed me before
As someone that owns the original I find the quality decently compared to the original. The colors are a bit off and the quality isn’t as good as the real deal.
That’s all you can really ask for with such a great difference in price!
Have you tried heating the base up with a hair dryer or something? might enable you to fix the bend.
Tried boiling water on it and didn’t work, not sure if I got the technique right though
Great intro 🤣
Tried something a tad different😂
I love this series of fake Legos it's inspired me to just get the knockoffs for the city I'm planning I can get the ones out now but these older ones are too expensive to justify buying
Really appreciate comments like this and viewers like you! Have a great day and I hope your city goes tremendously! If you ever want to talk fake Lego and city building get in touch with me on instagram!
@@BallisticBricks42 I will drop you a follow is it the same @?
@@oldmanprostte3574 Yes!
@@BallisticBricks42 I just followed you it's brickredhood
Gads! That baseplate looks awful. My Detective Office wasn’t that bad, and I still had to replace it with LEGO.
My Diner baseplate was pretty good. I have a Brick Bank from Ali that I still haven’t unwrapped. My other modulars are genuine.
I quite like the exterior of the Emporium. The interior needs a bit more pizzaz though. Mine is positioned at the end of the block, next to Green Grocer.
Caffe Corner-> Parisian-> Market Street-> Fire Brigade-> G Grocer-> Emporium. I think that’s the first six.
Solid idea. My other baseplates haven’t been as bad and this was definitely the worst one. Your city sounds great!!
totally off topic, but what T shirt is that? keep up the great review vids
Hey! I got it from SHEIN just over a year ago, not sure if you can still find it but there will be similars on there for sure!
Gee idk, a display piece that basically sits on your shelf majority of the time for 1/7th the price that basically looks visually indistinguishable? Yes, in no world is it not worth it.
Exactly! Not many people buying Modular’s are looking at the play features as it is
My comments keep getting deleted…
mine too, maybe it was because of the MILS pressure he was talking in the video. But I get it, maybe it was a little stressful. (even if I just wrote to use Ali's bricks and nothing more, btw idk)
@@bomber_cost referring to Ali and T seem to be problematic!
Hey! I’m really sorry! I haven’t deleted any comments and don’t have any restrictions on so that’s really weird. I always value and love seeing your comments on my videos every week so this is really annoying to hear
Really sorry. No pressure getting to me about the MILS😂😅. Not sure what’s going on with RUclips. Definitely don’t have any restrictions on my comment section and I haven’t deleted anything. I’m really sorry for this happening.
@@BallisticBricks42 thanks a lot for your kind reply! Anyway, I'll support whatever decision you'll take! Have a great day ☺️
C0LLAB? how to reach you ？
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It should not be a worth or not worth question. It is legal or illegal question. Playing off-brand building block is not a problem, but if the set is exactly copying from LEGO, it is illegal and not encouraged.
I’m not on the black market here or anytbint it’s openly available. At the end of the day Lego make ZERO profit either way I’m retired sets.
@@BallisticBricks42 Unfortunately those copycat companies also copy current market Lego sets. We should respect intellectual property, stealing other designs to make profit is not acceptable. Lego make zero profit on retired set, but counterfeit product definitely hurt the brand and encourage people buy the cheap knock-off sets and not an excuse to justify the knock-off behavior. Some other brand building block companies do produce their own design products which are really great. You can introduce those original design.
@@BricksBoy I’ve started working with alternate companies to show off their stuff too, but I also just want to build a city at the end of the day for myself and this is the only way to afford that. I’m just documenting my progress and while I see the downsides in it and agree, I still just enjoy making content and building my city
Thanks for your review of this set. It is always an individuals choice of what to buy. One thing that I take into consideration is resell value as I am not sure there is any with alternative brands?? Even tho I don’t plan on selling my sets when I purchase them I might later as I am at this point with my HP sets. Also looking forward to your video about converting to the mils system or not. I am not sure I want the added expense
I wish he would stop moving
What do you mean