Iron Felix, labeled as “Iron Fenix” (if only).

Salvador Allende nearly exactly how he looked in his last picture, but labeled just “Mr President”

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    The history of Chinese Lego is btw really fun. Lego for years hesitated to build a factory in China, but ultimately stonks syndrome got them and they did. Shortly after, Chinese started to produce strangely similar bricks which are only minimally different by plastic composition, just enough to avoid lawsuit. Since then they also expanded offer on miniblocks (75% of size of ordinary) and microblocks (50% and still look great but dammit they make the fingers hurt).
    And most importantly, they got not only copies of many rare lego sets but also many sets Lego never had, like the military including Soviet ones (tanks, planes and helis are relly good). They also make some from animes, movies etc, yesterday i seen complete model of Thousand Sunny from One Piece with all crew or the famous Pirate Ship from old Lego, but even bigger.

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      Yeah I saw the Soviet stuff, real shame Lego doesn’t want to delve into military and R content in general, I also saw many anime and movie customs which legit look official. Is there a specific reason why Chinese Lego does this stuff with no problem but Lego is so reluctant about it even if we already got a number of sets which are intended to be 18+ and we have many themes which aren’t so kid friendly.

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        Probably for the same reasons any other corpo is sitting silent about China:

        1. It’s a huge huge market, much money to be made
        2. Chinese judiciary is often like that for western corpos silly demands:

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          Lmao, but I hope eventually one day they let go of that rule since they’re going there more and more recently. One can dream…