Mould King 12032テクノロジーアプリリモートコントロールシェイスチーム機関車鉄道列車照明ビルディングブロックセットLEDライトモジュラー880ピーステクノロジークランプブロックキットキット

This was a great build and one of my most realistic looking locomotives.

My expectations were low to start with. I've heard about these types of kits from other brands, but I wanted to give it a go. It's very disappointing; not entirely in the ways I expected either. I purchased this kit as a way to test the waters. I've been very interested in their larger kits, particularly in the crane models. This kit convinced me to not waste my money any further on this brand or stuff like this. The overall quality of the bricks seem fine enough. It's in the instructions and build quality where things really start to let down. It's obvious it doesn't have the same level of polish and thought that a typical official Lego build would have. There's a number of lego pieces that are split in half, more or less. And it screams they were trying to get around Lego patents or whatever. Those pieces are sometimes awkward, and a little off putting. The split nature of them just makes them. Well, I just don't like it. It's weird, feels weird, feels cheap, feels poorly done. The overall build is meh. I guess you could call it an advanced build, but that wording applies differently to this vs an official lego build. This wasn't a fun build. It was tedious, not challenging. The overall construction methods left a bit to be desired. The model is fragile. It's frustratingly fragile. The wheels in particular were an endless source of annoyance during the build because it was so easy to knock them off. There's several areas where the build method means there's poorly connected parts that are easy to knock off while doing the rest of the build. The manual is meh. You look at it and it feels like what you'd want/expect from a brick building manual, but in reality it's meh. Things like the pathing for the wires, for the lights and motors, aren't well illustrated at all. I ended up having to rip half the model apart after realizing oh wait, they did actually show in one of the shots how they expect the motor wires to route. The light wires? Forget about it. They don't do anything for that. It's not thought out at all. They kind of show the routing for those wires in the instruction manual, but it's incredibly difficult to see because they illustrate it as thin lines that are easy to gloss over. The whole method for the lights is just... thrown on. An after thought. It doesn't integrate at all. How does it run on the track? It's a joke. I dislike it very much, and was one of the most disappointing aspects of this build. I really like shay locomotives, but this, gah. I wasn't entirely sure what to expect. I wasn't too hopeful while building it, but once I finished it and put it on the track. The regret really set in. This isn't a model for play, it's a model for display. Problem is, I wanted a train, not a display model. I realize I'm no master builder, but I've built enough Lego kits over the years to recognize what makes a good build, what can be challenging, but also fun. Mould King is not Lego. It's painfully obvious. They don't need to be Lego; they can be their own thing, but what they are right now is a cheap knock off that misses the mark of what actually makes Lego good, what makes Lego building enjoyable. So to recap. The build quality is mediocre at best and makes for a tedious and sometimes frustrating time. There's a bunch of awkward split brick pieces you have to assemble because they're apparently trying to get around Lego's patents. The manual is meh, and doesn't always illustrate things clearly. The lights are an after thought that feels shoehorned into the model. On top of all that. The model isn't the most robust, and it's not that fun to actually play with. It doesn't look good on the track moving around. This is one of their cheaper models. Imagine the disappointing I'd feel if I purchased one of their 200-500 dollar models. I love crane models in particular, and have built a number of the Lego ones. I've been intensely curious about Mould King's models for years because of that. But because of this build, it just completely and utterly killed any interest I have. Even if I got one for free, the build process from this was so un-enjoyable , that I just don't even want to bother trying with another. It's a nightmare to think it would be the same. Especially those bigger crane models. I can't imagine how frustrating that would end up being.

Awesome set, very detailed, lots of parts, led lights are great.

This was my first Mould King build, and it was fun but it also had challenges. The main issue was its fragile design- just not enough structure or layers in a few key places, so it just kept falling apart. Running or even just picking it up always led to parts coming undone. It was hard to even assemble it- press one part on, and the rest of the structure would come apart. So, I got out the ABS glue and some miniature screws. After analyzing the key weak points, I glued some parts together, and connected other parts with screws. Now it stays together and runs sweetly! What else? 1. I wish Mould King had some log cars to go with the Shay. 2. Unlike a real Shay, the model's trucks don't articulate, so it has a hard time negotiating the included 40R radius track, even with only two axles having flanged wheels. 3. While two LEDs are included, the instructions completely don't show how to install them. I didn't need the aggravation so I left them off. 4. The motor lead is longer than needed, so there's a small bundle of cable in the cab, no where else to hide it. Frustrations? Yeah, but totally worth it, I love Shays!

My father loves trains and the Shay Locomotive is one of his favorites. I thought I'd buy this to put under the tree, but regret that decision. The building experience is tedious. There's a lot of odd design choices, and some blocks that need to be assembled together to make what's normally a singular block, I'm assuming to dodge more recent patents. The long bars are plastic that doesn't hold a straight line well at all and you must trim them yourself. Even with flush cutters, I struggled to get flat ends, and trimming to the length specified ended up looking wrong so I had to trim them again. The instructions don't really tell you what to do with the LED lights, and that's because they don't fit. There's two possible paths, one that looks intended, but unless you smash the wires between blocks, there's no way to completely feed them through. I ended up going under the train, but now have too much length sticking out the end. The instructions to assemble the light are simply nonsensical. Basically, the blocks float in midair. I'm pretty sure it's missing a bar to hold the light ends together and to clip into the grab block, but none is included and none is shown in the instructions. The train gears the motor UP, making the train ridiculously fast and it has no speed settings. It should be the opposite, gearing the motor DOWN making it slow. Trains are slow, and Shays were especially slow. Even on my custom printed r88 track (lego is half that at r40), the second truck wheels on each side float in air above the track. I think you'd need r120 for them to look fine, which is, IIRC, an 8' diameter circle. On the r40, it looks absurd. The magnets are so strong, they pull themselves out of the plastic clip instead of disconnecting. After 4 hours of a not-so-fun build, I'm going to have to pull the thing apart and pretty much build it from scratch with some of my own parts to try and shorten it a bit, slow down the gear reduction, make the light wiring fit, the light housing stay put, it not fall apart when you look at it wrong, and to fix a number of color mistakes. Pretty sorry for something that cost about what it would have if it was sold by Lego itself.