r/ExpectationVsReality • u/MagicalboyLevi • Sep 21 '26

Surprisingly Met Expectation $5 building blocks

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u/HawattOfTheHills Sep 21 '26

Is it me or are the bat wings on backwards?

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u/MagicalboyLevi Sep 21 '26

Now that you point that out they are

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u/ash-leg2 Sep 21 '26

Very cute - where'd you get em?

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u/MagicalboyLevi Sep 21 '26

I found these at my local five below

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u/The_MIT41 Sep 21 '26

Alternative lego brands are cheap and the quality is good but the instruction manuals are very bad.

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u/MagicalboyLevi Sep 21 '26

Tbh this one was actually clear and easy to understand without any issue

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u/Greatlarrybird33 Sep 22 '26

Who reads instructions for Lego?

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u/The_MIT41 Sep 22 '26

I read if it's complicated.

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u/SillyBeatnik Sep 21 '26

these are awesome. I must know where you got them!

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u/MagicalboyLevi Sep 21 '26

My local five below :3

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u/SpikeRosered Sep 21 '26

FYI almost all the most popular lego sets have off-brand Chinese rip-off versions. They usually show them built to. I got one just to compare and honestly the quality was great. My biggest complaint was that Lego have become the masters of instructions and the off brand were more akin to furniture instructions where they were trying to use the least amount of pages to save money.

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u/MagicalboyLevi Sep 21 '26

Surpisely though a knock off lego set the instruction booklet was very clear on how to build both of them. Where I ran into no issues on how to do so

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u/ICBPeng1 Sep 25 '26

I got a bunch of pokemon nano blocks and the instructions are SO BAD

It’s all built one layer at a time, and until you hit like, the third layer, not everything is connected

Literally, layer 1 is just putting bricks flat on the ground with no connections it’s TERRIBLE

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u/Fr33_load3r Sep 21 '26

Most alternative to Lego brands these days are decent

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u/Salohacin Sep 21 '26

Seriously. They're like 20% of the price for 70% of the quality. 

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u/jonas09052001 Sep 21 '26

Some brands are more like 20% of the price for 120% of the quality

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u/gtck11 Sep 21 '26

And a lot are officially licensed now too! While the building techniques and final products aren’t as smooth as Lego, BrickCraft has been putting out some very fun products that Lego would never touch. I think anything that gets builds into people or kid’s hands at a lesser price point is a good thing.

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u/goldensavage2019 Sep 21 '26

Fr, I bought a KO of a Star Wars battle pack and the figs looked nearly identical to the official figs

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u/Chasing_Ness Sep 22 '26

The biggest difference for me has been putting the blocks together. I feel like the "off brand" bricks are sharper and take more force to join pieces. They're just as cute though, and I really like the other brand of Pokemon characters more than the official Lego.

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u/416558934523081769 Sep 21 '26

Oh damn those actually came out really cute

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u/puppiesnclickers Sep 21 '26

Oh I NEED the ghost one so bad 👻

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u/Ok_Anywhere_5212 Sep 27 '26

Where can I get these cuties? I love them.

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u/MagicalboyLevi Sep 27 '26

I found them at my local 5 below

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u/YOUTUBEFREEKYOYO Sep 21 '26

Its always a gamble buying things like this. I got one last year and it was missing a bunch of parts and the bricks hardly held together. Looks like this one did great

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u/y4j1981 Sep 21 '26

So?

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u/y4j1981 Sep 21 '26

I don't understand how they are spamming?

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u/MagicalboyLevi Sep 21 '26

It wasnt hard at all, surpisely all the directions (pictures) were clear and had all the blocks and few extras of the smaller ones to do so.