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Tag: Xingbao
Is it ever okay to buy fake LEGO sets?
Is it ever okay to buy fake LEGO? Emma Kennedy gets existential for Brick Fanatics as she ponders the ultimate ethical dilemma – for LEGO fans, anyway. All great things have imitators, and I suppose we have reached that point where we need to slide sideways into a darkened room, don balaclavas, and discuss – cue a…
Xingbao: If LEGO is Apple, we are…
Clone brick company Xingbao’s 2017 Product Manual offers an insight into how the Chinese company position themselves, with particular reference to the LEGO Group Xingbao emerged in late 2016 as a Chinese-based initiative to bring LEGO-inspired designs from notable builders in the LEGO fan community to the mass market, via sets produced using clone bricks.…
Xingbao shift away from LEGO trademark?
Xingbao look to be taking steps to move away from the LEGO Group’s trademarked minifigure, with a design of their own. However… Whilst the LEGO Group was notable for their absence at this year’s London Toy Fair, a number of prospective rival enterprises making use of clone bricks identical to the LEGO Group’s designs –…
Counterfeit toys contribute to decrease in UK sales
2017 saw a dip in UK toy sales, after three years of growth for the industry. To coincide with the UK’s Toy Fair, the British Hobby and Toy Association has released figures showing a dip in UK toy sales in 2017. Sales decreased by 2.8% last year, to £3.4 billion. Analysis has been provided along with the figures:…
UK Toy Fair 2018 – bricks, but no LEGO
With no presence from the LEGO Group at London Toy Fair 2018, what do fans of the brick need to know? The UK Toy Fair returned to the Olympia exhibition centre on January 23. Across three days, toy companies display new products that will be released over the next 12 months, allowing retailers and media to…
Xingbao launches LEGO Ideas style platform
Xingbao, a subsidiary of the company that owns knock-off LEGO manufacturer Lepin, has launched a platform seeking to ape LEGO Ideas. The unimaginatively titled Xingbao Ideas is a new website from Xingbao, a company that produces construction toys using the designs of prominent AFOLs. The entire concept of the site seems very similar to LEGO…
Xingbao release ‘adult themed’ product
Xingbao, the company working with AFOL designers to produce ‘LEGO compatible’ sets, is releasing a Yihong Brothel product. Prominent builders in the LEGO fan community have partnered with Xingbao to see their LEGO MOC designs released as unofficial, compatible construction sets, predominantly in the Asian marketplace. In this case, Ningbo DeMo Culture (read into that…
‘I don’t work for Xingbao, nor LEGO’
What would you do if given the opportunity to see your LEGO MOC turned into a mass-produced set that others could then buy? What would you do if it meant working with a Chinese company reputed to have links with Lepin? A report by the talented Allen over at thebrickfan.com brought attention to a new…
