The only brand that has an official webstore is CADA: https://decadastore.com/
None of the other brands has an official store. You are always buying form a reseller. Webstores either have their own stock or do dropshipping. Any store that claims to be official is lying (except Decadastore). Here’s an example.
The correct way to buy is to find a reseller (webstore) in China.
There are several sources to buy from (they all received positive feedback here, check our Seller Ratings threads):
Online stores
Yourwobb: https://www.yourwobb.com/
Second website for King, Leji, etc – replicas that were removed from the main store: https://www.joytoyworld.com/
Loltoy: https://loltoy.shop/
Joy: https://joooooy.com/
Barweer: https://www.barweer.com/
Mixed feedback, but has US warehouse.
Store for replicas
Youmko: https://youmko.com/
Doinbby: https://www.doinbby.com/
Has some good feedback. Not related to Barweer apparently.
CreepHybrid: https://creephybrid.easy.co and https://www.reddit.com/r/CreepHybrid/
Retired Lepin sets and rare sets by other brands, but also new ones. Managed by u/magnifizio
Hitian: https://www.hitian.com/
Vonado: https://www.vonado.com/
A lot of MOCs sold as sets of bricks.
JoinToy: https://www.jointoy.com/
Brick Me Up Scottie: https://www.brickmeupscottie.com/) managed by /u/brickmeupscottie
Blue Brixx: https://www.bluebrixx.com/
German store with Chinese sets, but not replicas.
Brickkk: https://www.brickkk.com/
HeroToyz: https://herotoyz.com/
Minifigures Mall: https://www.minifiguresmall.com/
World Minifigs: https://www.wmmocbricks.cn/
Webrick: https://www.webrick.com/
Bricks and spare parts. They have a toolkit that allows to upload Lego projects in different formats to get parts list and order them.
AliExpress.
AliExpress is a huge trading platform. Refer to our AliExpress buyer’s guide to learn the basics:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TApv0EhSMiZsrqH1xZxDE7LLSGgZPIlAmmiujHfq2U0/
There are plenty of brick sellers out there, some even provide delivery from european warehouses (from Spain or Poland, for example). Check here how to search for sets.
Check the seller ratings thread and reviews before ordering. AliExpress has buyer protection, though some actions might be required for it to work, refer to the AE FAQ above. A list of AE stores with good feedback can be found in Monthly Stores Rating:
https://www.reddit.com/r/lepin/wiki/storesratingthreadThere are couple of more options but they are not that popular:
Taobao + shopping agent service. Taobao is a domestic Chinese marketplace (AliExpress is an international version of TaoBao), and sellers usually don’t ship internationally. You have to use a shopping agent service that will forward your items. The final prices are on par with AE, but AE has better buyer protection. TaoBao can be used to obtain some rare or older sets that you can’t buy anywhere else.
Ebay prices aren’t that good usually, because on ebay you deal with a reseller that already bought items in China from a Chinese reseller and added extra markup.
! Fake official Lepin-something websites or stores (lepinland, bricklepin, lepinbrick, etc) are lying about being official, often do not include shipping charges in items’ prices and tend to be more expensive in the end, but they will ship your orders.
Shady online stores with way too attractive prices that will take your money and will vanish.
HOW:
If buying from AliExpess, read the AliExpress guide:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TApv0EhSMiZsrqH1xZxDE7LLSGgZPIlAmmiujHfq2U0/
If buying from an online store, follow some simple rules:
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Find your wanted set on
and check which brands make it, check the description if there are differences between them. Browse reviews on the item page, make sure you are checking reviews with the correct set number.
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Check reviews on reddit.
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Check prices in trustworthy stores.
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Pay preferably with PayPal.
Instructions
If the model is replica of Lego set, you can use Lego instructions:
https://www.lego.com/en-us/service/buildinginstructions
If it’s an original set, some instructions might be impossible to find in PDF.
But to your luck there is archive of instructions from different brands made by /u/macstratdb
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1p2EKnpTIfEkzraAhep09Lg6rcSkX0GmO