u/Inosculate_

Looks infinitely nicer than the old setup

Actually crazy to get this much Lego for ~$200

Castle was a bit over $100 from aliexpress. Biggest issue by far was the Minifigures, they sucked. The faces suck & one arm was broken. Minor issues were the trees being the wrong mold & the gate not automatically falling when you pull the lock.

Eldorado was like $107 from marstoy which is way less of a discount (like 50%) than the castle but fuck it, saving close to $150 is still awesome. Minifigures were honestly very fine. Only issues were both flags only being printed on one side, the string being unusable trash, and the 2 female imperials not having the hair/hat combo piece which hides the back face print.

The building exp from marstoy was significantly nicer than the castle. It was sorted into 5 large bags, each containing the larger elements & plastic bags for that step. Conversely, the castle was a lot more annoying to build. The bags were all together, numbered like 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, so on. + All the larger elements from the entire set were lumped together, rather than being grouped with the bags you need. It was fine but more tedious. Idk if all marstoys orders are packaged like mine, but it was significantly nicer.

Overall very very happy with my first steps into lepin though

wasn't a huge fan of the brickwork so I replaced the pieces to make it clean

Unsure if I wanna rock the imperial flag or give it over to the pirates for the time being. Might not make the most sense aesthetic wise but I'd like to think they're overrunning the place

It had free shipping & gave me a $7 coupon on top of it so all in cost me $72.07 shipping from the US

Gonna go great with the Lion Knights castle I finished a while back. I may end up posting pictures of the set(s) later on.

p.s. sorry if linking the screenshot isn't allowed or something. Just sharing what I thought was a cool find, I gain 0 from this.