Mould KingShay-Type Steam Locomotive Building Set with LED Lighting, Remote/App Control Model Train Block Kit with Tracks, Engineering Toy Kit for Adults (880 PCS)

Good quality for a knockoff lego set. Product is decent and the quality is good. It's a nice feeling set with pretty decent instructions as well.

The instructions aren't that bad so long as you're paying careful attention; the biggest issue being where wires are meant to go being unclear. This kit is definitely meant for adults tho; children will not have the patience for it.The parts are of adequate quality, and the finished model looks good and runs fairly well.My biggest issue with the set is its inability to actually pull any train cars over turns. The magnets are plenty strong enough, however they hang too far out from the pivot point on turns, forcing any car coupled to the engine to derail 100% of the time.- If you're getting it as a standalone, then its alright; but as part of a layout its next to useless. -

So far the communication has been great with the seller. I just started assembly today and have had no issues so far. It took me a minute to figure out how to power on the motor and lights but once I got that figured out? Assembly has been flying. Lots of little parts but take your time and I think it’ll be alright

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.

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.

The engine is well designed; however, some of the parts don't stay together (had to CA glue them together) and the manual leaves allot to be desired i.e. not showing where to install the power and lighting wires and the examples are not clear, had to re-do some of the assembly.

Arrived on time and is exactly what Masson wanted