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I’m here to review the Kazi 98220 “Cargo Rail Train”. I haven’t seen many photos apart from the stock ones on the internet, so hopefully this will help some folks who are considering adding this set to their collection. The set includes a locomotive, passenger car, boxcar, oval of track with 2 switches and a siding, cargo truck, and a small platform. Five minifigures are also included – an engineer, two cargo delivery people, and two passengers. The set came in a tightly wrapped bubble wrap bag, and arrived in about 2 weeks from China to Baltimore. Retails for $55-60 on AliExpress. I paid $48.93, which included coupon from AliExpress during the 11/11 promotion. It’s worth noting that all of the bricks are screen printed! No stickers! I wish some other brick companies would learn from this … Below, I’ll review in the individual parts. Bricks : Great clutch, maybe even a little too strong. There is a brick separator included, and was needed for sure. The pieces were ju...

Just what we need -- another internet blog about Lego (Legos?) and bricks that are not actually manufactured by a company called Lego. Let me preface this by saying I am not a Lego purist. I grew up with most of my sets being from Lego -- but I also had a few Tyco sets and some other ones from brands that I can't identify. It didn't matter to me who made what brick as long as it all played together nicely. So let's all play together -- nicely. (Except for Mega Bloks or Mega Construx or whatever they're calling it these. Get out of here with that junk.) I have approximately 500 sets as of this post, about 80% of which are Lego. The rest are a combination of BlueBrixx, Lepin, Sluban, Lele, or some other unidentified Asian brand. I love the Asian brands, not specifically because they've brought this hobby of building things out of bricks to a more attainable price point, but also because some of these companies are delivering products that Lego doesn't want to prod...