Best Of LEGO Bootlegs

[Bioman]

Just pulled out this not-quite-transformer, it’s worse than I remember.

Parts quality is bad, but the design is even worse. Even if it was made of decent quality parts, it would barely hold together. Balancing it for this photo took me about 5 minutes.

I tried building the truck alt model, but I gave up halfway through. Its design is even worse, it doesn’t hold together at all.

I’ve been considering to use this guy as the test subject for a scientific experiment regarding the integrity of cheap plastic actually i just want to do dobbycam but with this thing

[Bioman]

Bionicle bootlegs are fun and all, but what about Lego’s other constraction lines? I just made it my goal to find every Knights Kingdom bootleg ever, this is what I have so far. Most of it, as you might expect by now, was made by…

Bela

2004

Jayko and Danju. These don’t look half bad. I unfortunately couldn’t find any photo of what their packaging looks like.

2005

Couldn’t find any for 2005. I’ll keep looking.

2006

This is the year where I could find the most stuff. First off, canisters:

Adric and Kentis:

The online shop site where I found all the canister images also had a few user-written reviews for the sets, including more photos.

Adric came with the wrong helmet (Karzon’s) and his face print is off-center.

Karzon has an unpainted shield and his torso function was broken.

Kentis is fine. I find it interesting how his armor looks much sparklier then usual.

Unknown brand

Don’t know anything about these guys. The brand might be Fighter Dragoon, but the image is too blurry to say for sure.

Ligao

Ligao (Wange) has never bootlegged the Knights Kingdom line from what I can tell, but they did make… this.

I’m trying to figure out what the shield says. Stucky robot? Sricky robot?

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That’s all I have for now, I might update this when I find more.

[Wekua]

maybe it’s “bRICky”?

[Bioman]

Ah it’s probably “bricks robot”! I already thought that the perceived y could also be an s. Never occured to me that the first letter could be a b. Good catch!

[Spiderus_Prime]

Bootleg Knights’ Kingdom II constraction figures exist?

[Minethuselah]

Looks like “Gricky” to me.

Whatever it says, though, one thing is for certain… He’s got hips that don’t lie.

[Minethuselah]

Just found this one - my Lego robotics team got these to match our general “aesthetic” at competitions.

Knock-off Lego ties. Genius idea. They’ve got studs on them so you can place bricks, and as you can see I’ve built the Unity, Duty, Destiny symbol on mine. These things came from Amazon so if you wanted one you could probably still find it there.

[TheTDChronicler]

CCBS Ninjago

[TotalMaddness]

I actually have the gold one, it’s a great parts pack

[Minethuselah]

Those CCBS parts would actually go hard, those chest pieces especially. The white one’s chest looks particularly stylish with the white and red.

[TheJerminator]

@TheTDChronicler

CCBS Ninjago

I’m actually kind of surprised Lego’s never tried this themselves. They tried it with Chima, after all.

I know it didn’t work out super well, but I’d have thought they’d try it with Ninjago even before that.

[DuneToa]

For Ninjago, it might be harder to make the characters’ heads match the minifigures without looking odd, whereas with Chima, the minifigures already had heads made to look non-human (and non-standard-minifigure).

[Khalsa721]

Another comic con another round of bootlego mini figs.

Also I love avatar but yeah now I see why lego doesn’t do noses.

[TheTDChronicler]

South Park lego goes hard

[Khalsa721]

Yeah. My only issue with them is that I wish the bootleggers would’ve made different face printing instead of the surprised oh faces.

[DuneToa]

Surprisingly good face prints compared to the usual face prints I’ve seen on third-party or custom minifigures.

[Khalsa721]

Yeah. Other then the avatar figures having noses I gotta give it to these bootleggers on how good the figures look.

[Bioman]

Alright! Here’s some scale comparisons with the micro Pohatu I got recently. I don’t have the actual Master Pohatu, but I can give you comparisons for the pieces themselves.
I think it’s obvious, but I’m still going to explain: top row is original Lego full scale pieces, bottom row is from the micro bootleg.

Bones:

Hands and feet:

Shells:

Head:

The torso is interesting: it’s got the same dimensions (relatively speaking, it’s scaled down obviously) as the smaller torso, but it has the extra ball joints near the neck like the larger torso.

And lastly, here’s the same frame built from normal size and micro pieces.

[TotalMaddness]

@Bioman

The torso is interesting: it’s got the same dimensions (relatively speaking, it’s scaled down obviously) as the smaller torso, but it has the extra ball joints near the neck like the larger torso.

This is a real piece, it appeared in a ton of Hero Factory sets and is more common than the one with the narrower shoulders

The rest is interesting, especially how the axle holes on the head seem to still be the same size despite the head itself being smaller

[TheTDChronicler]

@Bioman

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