Well… “kvass” is a type of Russian alcoholic beverage, maybe the designers were drunk?
I did a Google search and all I found was a single listing on “Bob Shop” which I am hesitant to click.
Search query was “Qiao Kavass,” the only other things that came up were Asians…
Those images you found look like they’re from a Spanish site, where’d they come from?
I found those while googling for “vahki kavass”, I tried other possible keywords but they didn’t bring any results. I first discovered these because one is on the photo with the three boxed Invincibility Robots (in my above reply).
Bobshop appears to be a South African online shopping site, connection seems to be secure enough. They actually still have Nuurahk and Vorzahk for sale, just under 5 bucks each, but I guess international shipping from South Africa can get pricey…
The other ones came from Nivel Digital, which is an Argentinian online shopping site.
Very interesting yet very disappointing that because it’s perfectly scaled down it can’t interact with with regular pieces
I like how keerakh’s weapon is backwards, and shoulders are upside-down.
You keep seeing these pre-built copies of CCBS Hero Factory sets (most notably the Earth Tutelary ones), but this is the first time I’m seeing 1.0 Hero sets in this packaging style.
Also found this set with some mismatched colors and names (which have amusing misspellings). Bree2 is my new favorite character.
the pink hero cores actually look pretty cool though
That’s exactly what I was going to comment as well.
All of the recolours would be nice to have, but the trans-pink looks particularly cool.
Assassin was always my favorite out of the earth warrior War for the space line.
I always loved my action figure figurine from Piece insert intelligence toys®️
Here’s another really obscure bootleg set, Invincility Robot Robot Kahgarak from Leqi.
These two images are all I can find. Pretty sure it’s just a rebadged Bela set, they’ve released a Kahgarak combo in a similar flip-open box.
Best visorak combo
The packaging showing off the carapaces is actually pretty cool.
Yet another group of mysterious bootlegs, here’s a bunch of Ultraman sets made by a brand called Geniuestella (spelled Geniustella on some boxes, weirdly enough).
Built heli set:
These sets are not original designs, they’re copies of Oxford sets but with random Ultramen added.
That Geniuestella brand is weird, this is everything I can find. There was a Geniuestella trademark registered in China in 2007, but it’s ran out by now.
The set numbers starting with M78 indicates they might come from the same factory that makes Sluban sets, Sluban set numbers always start with M38. They also made copies of Oxford sets around the time (these photos are from 2009 and 2010) so it’s pretty likely.
Qman recently put out these Kyoryuger mechs and they look absolutely amazing!
They rely heavily on special molded parts for the details, though on the plus side it means they’re really accurate models.
I really hope this isn’t just a one-off thing and they make more Sentai mechs in the future.
Also, shoutout to Google translate
Those DO look pretty sweet. “Beat the enemy into a meat pie” is the best phrase I’ve read in a while.
So for those who are unaware, the US budget store chain Dollar Tree has recently started stocking products costing above $1. Among those new products is a series of Speed Champions-style LEGO compatible car sets.
Four different varieties are available, although I only found two of them at the store I visited. (I also saw a few at a similar size with blockier builds and included minifigures but I didn’t get pictures of those.) All of them are $5 each. (that’s less than a fifth of the price real speed champions sets go for these days!)
The part quality isn’t great, but not the worst I’ve seen from a low-end offbrand. There were a few pieces that had way more friction than they needed to or were slightly misshapen/have little bits of sprew or flash hanging off but overall they mostly go together pretty well.
On the topic of the building experience, I immediately noticed two things:
First, the instructions are INCREDIBLY condensed. As you saw earlier, they’ve been crammed onto one double-sided sheet of paper. This is only made worse by the second point: a lot of the part usage is strangely redundant, to the point that I’m convinced whoever designed this was intentionally trying to inflate the piece count. There’s a lot of cases where boatloads of 1x1 plates are used in places where a larger brick or plate would make way more sense.
Here’s a few steps of the orange car to give you an idea of just how bad it is:
The stickers seem to be decent quality in terms of the material they’re made from (at least for now) but the size they’re cut at leaves very little wiggle room for mistakes. On top of that, (as you may have seen on the box art) the designers have committed one of the cardinal sins of building toy design…
Whatever, the stickers don’t really add much aside from some abstract stripes anyway, I’ll probably just throw them away after disassembling these.
Here’s some pictures of the finished build, (alongside the extra pieces)
Now here’s the finished build for the white/grey car:
A couple odd things about the design of these, the build gets a bit more complex towards the back, but there’s a lot of parts that just… aren’t well supported? The final builds come out relatively stable but it wouldn’t have been difficult to make them far sturdier. The designers seem to have avoided using any full-height bricks for some reason (aside from a few snot bricks and some 1x1s in the grey car.) The orange car also came with an extra 2x6 plate that wasn’t used anywhere in the build, strange…
While building the grey car I also noticed two unique molds that I didn’t see earlier. A 1x4 cheese slope and a 2x5 plate.
I’m not much of a speed champions expert (or a car guy in general) so I’m not sure if these are ripping off the builds from existing sets or mocs, or if they’re at all based on any real vehicles.
To wrap things up, I’d say only get these if the parts look appealing to you and you don’t mind mixing offbrands into your collection, or if you like the designs and don’t mind a slightly frustrating building experience. There’s some fun involved builds going on here (moreso with the grey one) if you’re willing to brave the instruction quality.
I’ve been aware of these for a bit because a friend of mine picked up all but the blue one. I think the orange one is supposed to be a McLaren 720S GT3, the red one might be a Ferrari 488 Pista, and the grey and blue ones are McLaren Sennas, with the grey one probably being the regular version and the blue one being the GTR track variant due to the big wing
Wow! I’m impressed that they copied those sets that fast, it’s only been 2 and a half months since they came out
I saw these in a store last november so they’ve been out for a while
