>>10593853the quality varies greatly. we bought a lot of Friends and princess type shit for my girls that was knockoff chinese. Lego packaging, near Lego quality, basically just reusing the Lego. They fit well and build well, and are mixed with legit Lego. It's been 10 years of them owning and playing with this knockoff Lego and only none of them have died from the toxicity.
Lepin and the other stamped knockoff are slightly more garbage and shit that isn't 1:1 Lego sets are even worse. I base this on sorting a supposedly pure lego buy that was 30% non-lego. You could literally pick them out.
So if you're not picky, yeah go for the chinese 1:1 rip offs, they're good enough for a non-purist, snap and build well and you save a ton of money for your future hospital (if in the US). I think we bought on AliExpress
