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This guy doesn't like Lepin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ2eX9vlcUQ
If you want to go down a similar route, here's an overview of other brands and their strengths and weaknesses:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUUeFZyn08g
You can often get LEGO at quite heavily discounted prices. The LEGO shops quite frequently and discreetly do 50% off sets that they want to clear. This never lasts long (for obvious reasons), so you have to be lucky. They typically put them in a corner or in an area not next to the other products of that line and the only way of telling is the price label.
Other high street retailers often offer 30-40% off LEGO. That still makes it expensive, but certainly more worth it. If you can wait until after Christmas, there tend to be lots of discounts in January (as with most other things, I guess).
so,
anyone got any experience with ordered chinese knock off lego (lepin?) from anywhere either UK or aliexpress based?
looking and getting quite an extensive sets (creation/technic) this year - hoping not too late to order for christmas?