The package I received had every single piece in it, so that was good. The quality of the pieces approaches LEGO's, so don't worry about that. When going through the bags, because of what I assume is due to a recall, some bags have extra pieces to be used in later sections, and a few unnumbered bags of the same pieces are provided, just be aware of that. In addition, most pieces do not have any extras, so be careful, I only ended with a tiny bag of extras. Build this in a good space where you can recover dropped pieces.
The instructions are not very expansive, and some steps leave pieces floating in space for several steps and there was a select few places where you need to guess where something goes. And a single step shows the wrong piece in the wrong place (a mix up between step #195 and #198). But don't think that's bad, all those tiny mistakes were in places like the inner bottom of the podium (the rock formation) or in the city, which frankly you can just customize how you want. No problem I mentioned affects the structural integrity. All trivial.
My only complaint about the build is that the forward support for the ship, the one near the tip, does not actually connect to it. That support is just a very thin rod that the front of the ship freely rests on. The support structure itself stems from a miniature building, which itself is connected to the rest of the build by a single circular stud. The situation hurts my engineer heart. But it works if barely, so that's really a personal disgruntlement.
Despite this product being extremely good for the price, I would only recommend it as a gift if the giftee is a confident builder, and is willing and able to deal with the minor, minor discrepancies in the instructions, and who you can work with in the event that the product is missing pieces. I didn't encounter that issue, so refer to other reviews on that. It seems like the seller is able to work with you in that respect.
If you are a decent builder, my experience was less repetitive than I expected. I haven't built a set this large before, so I was surprised that it only took about 9 hours of concentrated work in total. The podium layers get boring, but if you tackle them only several layer in a sitting, it actually gets built up quickly, so it feels like it goes by fast. After that part, the rest gets much more interesting. I would not recommend building the ship first, the way you connect the ship to the back support doesn't work that well in the wrong order, and I don't believe it rests well by itself.
Overall, great for the price, would be about 4 times more expensive if it was official LEGO, and the tradeoff in quality takes things from a 10/10 to a 9/10 on average. I hope my shared experience helps you in your decision to purchase, or if you had, in your build. I am not, in any way, affiliated or even in contact with the producer or seller of this product, and I assure you I'm a real person with real opinions. I know people get free products from sellers sometimes for posting good reviews, that isn't the case here. Thanks for reading!
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| Price | $154.00 | $469.00 | $274.00 | — | $274.00 | $274.00 |
| Piece(pcs) | 5162 | 10030 | 6685 | 5018 | 7588 | 2905 |
| Dimension(cm) | 34*31*46 | 114.3*73.6*50.8 | 112*59*31 | 55.5*41*27.2 | 131*49*18 | 62*20*12 |
| Weight(kg) | 6.41 | 17.5 | 9 | 4.85 | 8.9 | 2.85 |
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Not a fun build
I purchased this set because it looked interesting and because Lego doesn't have this design. And this is the first purchase I've made from Mould King for one of their brick construction sets.I've built the Lego Ultimate Collectors Edition Millennium Falcon, the Colosseum, the Titanic, and the Disney Castle, so I have plenty of experience with large sets.I received the item with a huge rip on the front of the box, but the outside mailing package was not ripped and none of the bags of pieces were ripped. I contacted the seller and he sent a reply telling me how many bags were included in the set. I then counted the number of bags in the box and they matched. In the end, no parts were missing.The instructions are in a heavy book, though not spiral-bound. But this is similar to Lego's large sets.This set comes with a little hammer, which I've never seen in any brick set before, including Lego and MegaBlocks. But the set does not come with a brick separator. I found the parts to be "sticky", meaning once you put them in place, it's hard to separate them without a separator tool or a flat-edge knife.For the instructions, I found that the pictures of the bricks don't have much contrast. This makes it hard to figure out if a dark brown brick has 3 studs or 4, and it makes it hard to figure out where, exactly, the piece will go.Like larger Lego sets, there are a number of steps which include way too many pieces. For example, starting around step 95, each step has 30, 50, or even 85 pieces! Yet steps 101 and 102 only have 1 piece each! I think the steps should be broken up to include no more than 10 or 20 pieces had a time, especially when the first few steps only include 3 to 5 pieces in each step.As I was building the set, I found that the mountain sides didn't line up correctly. But I don't know if that's because I didn't follow the instructions correctly or if it's because of the way the set is designed. So I had to take some pieces off to make it fit, but even then, the connectors didn't line up.As I put the Star Destroyer together, I found the model to be extremely flimsy. The front section of the ship is made of plates connected by 1 or 2 studs. And that's supposed to keep all the other plates connected?!Then when I snapped on the last top section, I touched the bottom plates, which caused them to fall off.Then the front support holding up the Star Destroyer seems poorly designed and is only attached to the mountain by barely 1 stud. Why isn't this reinforced like the rear support? Plus, it kept coming apart, so I had to take some pieces off this also, to keep it together.I was getting so frustrated trying to put the bottom plates back together that my wife suggested gluing it. And that's not a bad idea since I doubt I'll build this model a second time.So I don't recommend this model at all. Building models is supposed to be fun, but it wasn't for me.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2023
So this was a really cool build, you definitely need to have experience if you wanna build this. There are some spots where you have to kinda take your best guess on where to put the legos. There were some spots that were confusing but with experience you can make a good guess, that’s what I did and I was able to make it happen and it all came together. But it was frustrating at times. Once I got to bag #12 I was actually missing so many pieces that I couldn’t continue so I reached out to the seller and they were extremely helpful and immediately got me a replacement of those bags (#12) and shipped it out with a tracking number. If you bought this as the “LEGO” brand you would be paying waaayyyyy more. I think the price point is amazing for how big this build actually is. It took me about 2 weeks of doing it on and off to completely finish. I would definitely recommend glueing the base as you go or it could fall apart. I really loved this build, it was fun and gave me something to do in my free time. If your a Star Wars and lego lover, this is an awesome set to add to your collection that your not gunna find anywhere else. I will definitely be purchasing more lego sets from this seller.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2023
Built 90 percent of this over the course of weeks. Got to the last two bags and discovered an entire bag of parts was MISSING and another bag was a duplicate. Unbelievably disappointing to get to the very end to find out this can’t be completed. Definitely using the included hammer to deconstruct this to stuff back into its box and returning it. While I’m getting my money back, I’m not getting back the many hours wasted on this. And I have to explain to my co builder ( my 9 year old) that going cheap can cost so much more. Avoid this and spring for an original licensed product.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2022
Really fun build. Not for younger children or inexperienced builders. Takes a lot of patience and you really have to pay attention to what you're doing. Quality is really good and there were no missing pieces. Very good overall!
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