Quan Guan parts

Quan Guan. I got 2 Speed Champions knockoffs from them, in order to try out the parts (they really expanded on the Speed Champions btw, lots of great cars already, better than most MOCs because of the available parts).

 

I was staying away from clone brands mostly because of color incompatibilities, but I found this grey pretty close, slightly more blue (but I have genuine Lego way more discolored).

 

This is a MOCer's dream, I mean the non-BS system (that clones have for ages). Non-BS brackets, wedge TILES, studs invertors, chainable slopes... I so wish LEGO had all this. Because yeah, if LEGO's quality is a 9, Quan Guan is a 7 at best (less good plastic, less good clutch, stains, few broken parts, and well the cars don't even roll).

 

But what caught me off-guard is the minifigs. Chinese minifigs are often hilariously bad, but this is what we would have today if LEGO had balls (but I can imagine them not willing to jeopardize their most emblematic asset). They look like on LEGO's promo pictures, properly articulated, while NOT looking off. When the limbs are straight, you just can't say it's not a real minifig, only from the back you see the joints. Funny that LEGO dual-molds the legs while these could really be 2 articulated parts.

Really, this works, I would love to see this made with quality.

 

So yeah, there's better than LEGO out there as for system & ideas (just not quality). A world in which functional parts don't mostly come from minifig accessories, and you don't have to cheat the system all the time.

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