I got my aliexpress order today for a bunch of shields and these funny rune-decorated mugs. The red on all the long shields is shifted downwards a little, but it doesn't bother me since I paid less for all of them (half off) than you would for a single legit one and it's not that noticeable. Long shields are printed on white plastic, triangulars surprisingly on a blue (slightly more yellow than lego's), so those areas are left unprinted.
The mugs connect to studs on both ends, and I'm already loving giving them to figures to toast each other. Minifigure hands can't hold the handles sideways like the skeleton here because the hand is too tall for the gap.
>>10954885>>10954892Lego does these only as the brackets with a half-plate thick plate behind the stud. I got a few of similar ones from a "open brick source" dinosaur, they're really neat because you don't have to build around the bracket plate and they're very sturdy pieces. I recommend that brand. Great for colored mixel joints as well, though their balljoints are very slightly too big for lego sockets, so I don't advise mixing those. They also do these weird anti-tiles they put on antistuds to smooth out those surfaces but I didn't apply them because they're really hard to remove. The pieces from my set were generally very tight fitting.
