Lego

[Savolainen83]

WARNING, PIC HEAVY!


Thought I'd do a small comparison between Lego and my first Cobi set.

Bought this on friday for 50€, 358 pieces. Scale 1:35.

Fully built, it looks like this.

Comes with the fireman figure, fire extinguisher and "detachable" hose. As in when I tried to remove it from the tank on the bed, it came with the plate it was attached and the small special piece which holds the plate itself. To re-attach the plate you have to remove parts of the tank because the special piece is too short to connect.

Quality overall ok. Duallie rear tyres with real, separate wheels on both sides.

The cockpit is covered with semi-transparent pieces all-around. To get into the cockpit is easier said then done, there is nowhere to grab the pieces and you need to use your nails to pry the parts off.

The cockpit itself has two seats side-by-side and some empty space behind them.

The figure itself doesn't fit into either seat unless you rip his whole arm off. And if you do that, they won't stay in place because they don't attach to the seat in any way. There's only small wall between the legs.

For comparison, this is what I got for less than 40€ in 2019/20. 200 pieces. Minifig scale.

I know the licences for real vehicles ain't probably cheap but still.

It has printed pieces for rear chevrons, door handles, door texts, bonnet vents, headlights, grille and front bumper details.

The base is made of multiple thin plates that you build on top of. Pushed my finger through the floor when re-attaching drivers seat back in.

In the end, I'm going to stick to Lego even if the models are not that smoothed out compared to Cobi.

EDIT: the model has six separate sidebays for storing things, but they are so small even the supplied extinguisher doesn't fit in as whole.

Also the figure doesn't fit into the cockpit even if you remove the arm and the helmet: he's still too tall.

In the end its a display model in the same vein as Lego Speed Champions: close accuracy to a real vehicle BUT less playability, I'd say.

Didn't test how they interact with Lego pieces.

 

[sesselpupser]

I'm in the process of buying the missing pieces for 43 sets all at once, and man, it's weird. Yesterday I collated my separate lists into a single list to make it easier to determine what I already have in my stash but I got a price for it and excluding shipping it was at £88. Tonight I went through my stash and checked again - £89. So I just duplicated the list, zeroed all the "have" values and checked again, and it's at £101 now for the whole list. I can only assume someone somewhere bought the last of a piece I wanted from one supplier which made the algorithm pick a slightly more expensive shop for something. This is for all new pieces (where new ones are available) so I'm going to see where I can save a significant amount by buying used instead and just hope for the best, but any colours prone to yellowing will be new where possible.

Anyway, I'll be glad to be done with this, but I'm also using the opportunity to pick up some pieces for replicas I want to make:



The orange tail fin on 21100 costs over £200 on its own, if you can find one, so I intend to colour swap the set so the orange pieces are either dark orange or bright light orange, the latter seems to be a closer match for the real thing (maybe even closer than the original orange!) Brick Sticker Shop sells replica stickers for the sets that have them, too.

I also have close to 100 polybags I'd like to buy pieces for, because they're almost all cheaper that way or unavailable any other way, but I might leave that for now because I don't really want to part them all out and make a mega-list for that too. But I guess I could.

Sigh.

Edit: after downgrading 20 lots from new to any condition I got the price down from £89 to £65, not too bad. I didn't really need new minifig hair pieces for nearly £2 each or a crab for £0.50.

 

[VXR]

My Williams has sprouted some adult sponsors 😁

 

[sesselpupser]

6341 Gas 'n' Go Flyer, got it for a hair under £10. It's pretty much not yellowed at all, the Octan stickers aren't peeling, one of the tail booms (which are just 1x10 plates with no support) is a bit bent and a turntable on the front landing gear is missing, one of the minifigs has a cracked arm and there are minor nicks in a couple of replaceable pieces (luckily the four 1x2x3 panels with solid studs, which are very expensive, are perfect) which I might replace, might not - pretty sure this is all original.

 

[Awong124]

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