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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ค. 2024
- Hey hey people, Raz here. Since the MOC Tour video is shaping up to be the longest video I've ever done, I wanted to take a quick second to talk about something else that was near and dear to my channel, and decided to go over the history and my opinion of 1/28 and 1/35 scale. Now I know this is likely going to be a controversial video since it expresses an opinion and opinions are frowned upon on the internet. Just remember, I'm a grown a$$ man who plays with Legos, you don't need to make fun of me because my life is already a joke. More content to come. Thank you for watching.
Intro (0:00)
The History of Scale Modeling & Lego (2:07)
Lego Minifig Scale (4:43)
Brickmania & 1/35 Scale (6:33)
Cobi MOC Builders (11:51)
Cobi's Scale (14:37)
Disproving, Debunking, Refuting (17:01)
Final Thoughts (23:47)
Outro (26:01)
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Arguments like this are why people should move to 1:1 scale mocs.
I can’t wait for a 1:1 scale b-29… the wheels are probably gonna cost more than a car
I can’t wait for someone to built a 1:1 b-52
I can't wait for someone to build a 1:1 B-36, the wheels alone will cost more than the B-29.
1:1 Maus...
1:1 yamato💀
As someone who buys sets from a variety of brands, I totally agree the quality of the model is more important than the scale. While not optimal, I'd rather have a mix of good quality models than mediocre to bad models at the same scale. I can't say that I like how my Tiger I is significantly larger than my Tiger II from a different brand, but I chose the models of each vehicle that I liked best, and that's what matters most to me.
In the year or so since this video has released, cobi has leaned a lot more into 1:35 scale, especially with the "company of heros" line. While some of the sets have very nice builds and are plenty stable, I've had trouble justifying the prices of these vehicles over their older and larger builds. A lot of the older and larger models are the same price or cheaper than their newer and smaller counterparts, and I think this is largely due to the increased cost of using many smaller pieces in the newer sets.
It's also been interesting to compare other brands like sluban to cobi and lego as well. Sluban seems to use a scale closer to 1:32 , and these models seem to strike a nice balance between detail, stability and function. Not every kit is perfect, but sluban has even made many cobi kits look expensive in comparison without sacrificing much in terms of piece quality. Each brand has their own pros and cons, just as each kit has its own advantages and disadvantages as well. I hope people will be more willing to branch out and try other brands in the future. I've been pleasantly suprised by several of them
Love your video on this topic, I stopped building 1:35th ages ago, I do also think brickmania being original LEGO is half of the coolness which is why they won’t switch to cobi, it kinda defeats the purpose. I always think people should try to build there own stuff anyway
Great video! You did a great job! Remember, however, that nothing has changed at COBI and there will still be 1:28 scale models of vehicles, because this is the best scale for vehicles that can be played with. But there are many 1:35 scale fans asking for such models and COBI should also release vehicles on this scale. For a COBI fan, there is nothing better than giving him a choice so that the fan can decide which is better for him.
Artur, other then new Panzer III, the feed has been littered with 1:35 releases of late. Even QuanGuan has even been forced to design their own models such is the lull. (All due respect to them, their new sets are rather good). Long story short, were not seeing actions, and your long term fans are getting frustrated or considering alternatives.
Looking back at this comment, what a disappointment, I just hope to see way more than only 5 1:28 sets next year, and I hope it’s more than just remakes of old vehicles, may the 1:28 negligence end after the new year.
Excellent video! I really hope that you will upload more frequently, as I see a lot of potential in this channel.
Agree!
Every minute of the video took about 4-5 hours to produce. I'm hoping once I make it through the MOC Tour Video I can switch to 8-10 minute videos so I can release more regularly. Sadly, long videos just take a long time to make.
@@RazReviews Perhaps in the future, you could release it in smaller parts.
You’ll see the most egregious brickmania scale offenses in a lot of Dan’s old kits vs their newer kits made by different designers. Look at their old Tiger II with ambush camo vs their newer one. The turret is a whole brick shorter. They insist on 1:35, yet it’s almost always between 1:32 and 1:30, sometimes they hit 1:35, but then it looks off compared to the rest of their kits
This was a fantastic video, definitely worth the wait. I hope Cobi makes the best decision on this matter
27 minutes of Raz? Count me in!
Welcome back! Can't wait to watch the entire vid!
Bro in official cobi fans group Artur Machlowski shared and praised your video congrats :)
I think COBI’s 1:48 scale tanks look pretty spot on in terms of scale next to minifigs.
I must say you are right that actually not tanks but minifigs are the problem. But after investing so much into cobi models and hoarding so much minifigs I'd be mad when they introduce bigger ones - because that that all my collection would become useless and worthless.
tbh cobi figs are decent because since its taller, its actually fit 1/35 scale well
TYSM. I don't build mocs because if your pay class is middle class just buying parts adds up to a lot. I am 15 almost 16, 30 to 100 USD is my price range. I buy 1:28 scale because of the detail and play ability. Also if you just let a moc just sit there, you forget to clean it. Thank you so much people always are against 1:28 when it is great if you want detail, the point of most mocs.
I see more 1:35 cobi sets for next year than 1:28.
1:48 scale gang!
As someone who was afraid to sink the money into real model making, (I also don’t trust myself not to screw it up. It’s all very intimidating). I found Cobi to be an awesome substitute.
I’m simply head over heels obsessed with tanks, but knew nothing about the model community or Lego/cobi/brickmania communities. But after talking with friends, attending a Lego expo in search for tank builds, and even meeting the CEO of brickmania himself, I came to the same conclusions.
I felt like a noobie who was out of his place. Who just doesn’t understand that Brickmania is Brickmania! And you just can’t trash their sets. Even though I would repeatedly remark that Cobi sets looked way better and Brickmania was insanely expensive for no reason other than, “They use real Lego pieces!”
I thought maybe it was some veteran opinion that I just couldn’t wrap around my head at the time and I’d come around to it eventually. But once I watched my friend spend $400 on a Brickmania Stuart while I bought a MK V for $50, I couldn’t help but think my fresh eyes saw something they didn’t.
I personally don’t care about the figures at all, I just want more detailed tanks. I have a pak gun and some crates with guns hanging around but not a single soldier, because I personally just want to see the tanks. So the idea that people would specifically request lower detailed, smaller, and more fragile tanks for the sole purpose that they look better with figurines is genuinely baffling to me.
You just got a new subscriber. I liked your meme edits, and that T-34 video was top notch.
To me cobi should just make the figures bigger so we sill get good detail in the sets. Also original I was going to get brickmania's mark v but then I saw it was 335$ and said hell no.
The latest cobi figures have increased in size, with new legs and separate feet parts. It is slight but it goes a long way
Airfix and other moulded soldiers were usually 1:32. Tamiya and others were 1:35. I've some Cobi stuff but they're fiddly and forget about the tracks...One thing I don't understand about Cobi is why they insist on folding the instructions when they fit in the boxes without folding. The video there shows them folding one, lolz.
I've been collecting COBI for a long time, so I'm really disappointed with the way they are changing scales. I had no idea that they even posted a poll about scales and changing it just off that one poll, on a site that is more popular with older people would really skew the results on what people want. On Instagram and on their TH-cam live-streams, it's people asking for 1:28 scale, not 1:35.
Didn't know about Brickmania.... I just know that 1:28 is just way better... :D
Love the video, I’m personally getting so tired of LEGO snobbery. Looking forward to the next one my man. 👍🏻 measuring in feet is a fetish 🤣😂
I wish we'd switch to metric. It's so much easier to use.
@@RazReviews why not use both, like us…not at all confusing. 😂
P.s. I laugh everytime at the screaming dude
A 1:35 fan here. I want this scale because it's Cobi trains compatible
Man you absolutely demolished the 1:35 scale arguments! I personally think that the larger 1:28, even ones that are a bit off scale, are perfect compared to figures. It has better playability and looks
Never bought brickmania because im not stupid with money. I agree on all points. Although i like 1:32 on the 1 Person planes like the BF 109
Excellent, underrated work. Congrats!
Brickmania is the GameStop/Dkoldies of military themed bricks
Nice video! I agree most of things you said in this video!
But Brickmania also have their merit, due to their pioneerism .... isnt it?
Also they are the few ones who adventure in the bigger devices, like B17 and C130 with full interior or Huey and Blackhawk ( those Cobi is launching their own with the usual excellence)
In my humble opinion, those guys from Brickmania are like Wright brothers in military Lego hehehe ... they have started a trend and dont know well how to evolve the business like Cobi do and open their mind for a better scale 😁
I WAS WAITING SO MUCH FOR THIS NO WAY...
Damn, this was really well done, good job
I want 1:35 only because 1:28 is too expensive for me
And i don't have enough space
When i do though i would also like 1:28 for more choices
Also im not a moc builder
I support Cobi because I'm Romanian, us and the Poles we have been through some hard times,
i love cobi the most cuz im polish, also it made my younger memories better since even when i played with them and certain pieces broke. My WOT t34 just look like a knocked out tank
I agree. Especially with your point about the fact that if anything the figures should change
As someone who films stop motions, it would solve so many problems if they switched to 1:28th scale or 1:35th scale soldiers, the mega construx figs are so well detailed but if they were just a little bigger they would fit perfectly with the tanks
Although planes and helicopters would be a challenging since they are built at different scales
The older Cobi air cavelry Huey set is 1:35 scale and the gunner can't even fit in the helicopter without ripping off the roof
Someone has finally shot down brickmanias overpriced stuff but I like 1/35 because I use mega construc figures with cobi
I prefer 1:35 scale because I allready started a collection of 1:35 models (all cobi). Changing to 1:28 annoys me because the models will look like from another world together. Funny video never the less.
Thank you for this video! I really don‘t like the way Cobi handles the two scales. And ur totally right: The problem is not the scale, it‘s the minifigure. I love my 1:28 tanks and I would‘ve bought so much more cobi this year, but seeing the company of heroes 3 Panzer IV next to my Flakpanzer IV Wirbelwind was such a shock, that I swore I would never buy a 1:35 tank again. Well I still hope they‘re going to make more tanks in 1:28 and less in 1:35.
I do really like the new torso mold and the new legs/shoes molds that lengthens the height of the figures and I love how they look now. and I love 1:28 scale for tanks. but I think for AT guns artillery pieces buildings and some cars 1:35 looks good. But overall 1:28 is king.
Great video! Really informative and good arguments to make a decision between 1:35 and 1:28.
Now that I've seen the fragility, lack of details and functionality I was able to make up my mind.
I believe a lot can be solved by making bigger figurines, instead of making vehicles smaller.
Despite all the problems about scale and other things, the biggest problem of brickmania is that their product's design quality doesn't correspond the price of their product.
I don't agree with you. Their recent Sherman M4 looks very good, as does the Panzer 4
So it the solution to buy appropriate scale figures to fit into tanks? I personally mixed cobi tank with quanguan soldier, which does not look bad
Na, I think the real solution is for everyone to stop pretending these are scale models.
After watching this a few times, I agree. I think cobi is moving towards taller figures unfortunately- so they scale better with the 1:35. Personally I think they should stick with 1:48 (for rough minifigure scale) and 1:27/1:28 (for greater detail and interiors) but they've already set the groundwork for more 1:35.
Cobi are licensed sets, even partner with museums. So bruh whats brickmania, keep lego in fun and peaceful environment while cobi for history
cobi is good becuse they are playable and good to smash gently when playing with it
Hi great vid. Have you seen brick tanks they are basically cheap brickmania but more detailed and cooler.
I buy Mega Bloks WW2 figures, because Lego figures look like baby toys. 1/28 works better for my figures. Lego army builders will always prefer 1/35, because they only want a display piece for their figures. I am sure the Market is bigger for 1/35 because more people collect Lego figures. However Mega slowly growing and some minority of Lego collectors like the 1/28 scale. So i hope the cobi will keep selling both scales. If they have to stop making a scale, i hope is the micro 1/48 tanks.
Excellent Video this is exactly my opinion . Hopefully cobi does Not listen to this guyes
Yep would agree
Only cobi set I would avoid at 1/28 is jagd panzer E100 as it a pain to build and move. Due to being a old cobi set.
For one brick mania tiger you could have a division of cobi tigers
Brinckmania should just stick to minifigures
the only problem i have is the figures not looking good next to some tanks i think they could fix this by make larger figures, maybe that will work idk
meanwhile cobi making 1:12 scale for tanks with 8k bricks and costs 2.600 zlotys (600 euros)
5:00 I feel like I’ve seen her before… I can’t remember where tho…
just a question really.
but how do u get pieces to build with?
Usually amazon is the cheapest. I look for sets that have the pieces I need for a certain MOC. A lot of tanks are built using the same chassis, so you can use that as a shortcut and buy the official Cobi model, and then build the variant from there. For original MOCs which don't have a counterpart it's all about buying sets that have the pieces you think the MOC will need. There's really not a strategy to it. Some times I'll be mid-build and have to order a set to finish the MOC because I need a certain piece. Sometimes Cobi's official web store will have it and that will be cheaper. It varies from MOC to MOC.
@RazReviews its a shame bricklink is now owned by lego as I would quite like something like that for cobi
Why I didn't know this channel earlier? Sub!
I have a 1:35 churchill, and it looks ridiculous besides a 1:28 sherman.
Hey hey people, Raz here
So I am a bit late to the party but I will throw in my two cents anyway.
I am a wargamer by heart (I do mostly warhammer but I enjoy many others) and I also consider myself a history buff. So it is only natural that I want to do historical wargaming. The problem is where to get the models. Obvious solution would be scale models but my 40k mountain of plastic crack is so high that I would never realistically get to actually build and paint them. So Lego style models (I don't want to get into discussion is they are more toys or models but I will call them models here) were reasonable option.
I immediately looked into what Cobi has to offer. So lets talk about it:
There are 3 main scales that Cobi uses. 1:48, 1:35 and 1:28. (for the following keep in mind that I physically have the models so I am not making an argument based on a few pictures on the internet)
1:48 is good for wargaming and as you said it's the closest to the "scale" of figures. But limitations caused by the nature of bricks really shows through here. The proportions are often very... approximated to say the least and even so the scale can sometimes be a bit of. And the selection of vehicles is also quite small. Which is understandable considering the before mentioned brick limitations.
So it is between 1:28 and 1:35.
The figures look better with the 1:35. There is no question about that. (although I see a bit too many people claim that the 1:28 is closer to the figure scale which boggles me)
Here I really don't like the argument stating that the figures don't look appropriate with 1:35 vehicles either. While it is true that they are in fact not 1:35 (well they are not scale figures to begin with) they are closer to 1:35 and the accuracy is visually tolerable. Which cannot be said for 1:28 scale vehicles.
Now with figures out of the way let's talk details, proportions, play features and stability.
Your big argument against 1:35 Cobi sets was concerning features and stability.
Well the best counter argument actually comes from Cobi itself. (now it comes in handy that I am writing this comment over a year after the video was released) When looking at the stuff they released in 1:35 one can see that the guns have all the usual range of motion. The tracks also roll just as usual (for the most part). And the sets are all very stable and well build. The proportion are also on par with what I can expect and tolerate from a brick build model. And the detail. They really didn't sacrifice any significant amount.
You also made an argument that 1:35 is very limiting when it comes to smaller stuff. While I agree that in general the smaller scale you choose the less options you have. Thus many vehicles just cannot be realistically build in your scale of choice. But just look at the COBI 3048 Stuart! It is wonderfully detailed, small tank in 1:35.
One thing I agree on completely with you is the pricing. Even though 1:35 are noticeably smaller than their 1:28 counterparts the price difference is very small. So the volume of stuff per (insert a currency of your choice) ration gets worse for the 1:35.
To summarize:
For my wargaming needs 1:35 is the best scale of the three.
There is a great range of possible vehicles and other models to choose from and the figures are visualy acceptable when standing close to 1:35 models. The only place where 1:35 cannot provide is with AT guns.
Other major factor is the fact that 1:28 models are just way too big to be used in wargaming. (well maybe I should have started my comment with that - it would have been way shorter. :DDD)
At the time of writing this I am very tired so maybe I will add to this comment at a later time if I think of anything else to say regarding this topic.
For my feel is the brickmania karl-gerat to small
Dilan at brickmania is a fucking joke. It’s also super sad to see them start selling Cobi especially due to their super anti-anything not Lego/brickmania
Lego is gonna make a messerschmit bf109 for the indiana jones sets for 35 dollars
the manufacture of special parts for airplanes and tanks from cobi suggests that they simply lack professionalism. They just make special parts, rather than looking for ways to do everything with ordinary parts. 10:52
I'd argue the special parts are better because they open the door to better builds. As a MOC builder it's hard because they constantly release new parts that I want so I can update my builds to make them look better. Overall I like the specialized parts better than the generic Lego parts.
The idea of lego has always been that these are not ordinary plastic toys, but constructors. That is why brickmania specifically leaves the details uncovered. And also, brickmania can't use parts from other brands, so they have to get out somehow.Kobi kits don't look like a construction kit, they look like plastic toys
Special parts are great
Lego star wars fans beg for lego to make unique pieces for the minifigures. So I'm glad cobi creates new molds for sets
I have build over 2 hundred cobi sets since 2016, and today i just find out that cobi has almost no plan for another new 1:28 tank sets for 2023, which is good-----save me lots of money, especially in the background of big inflations :=}
Honnestly i only buy from brickmania rarely and usaly only for mini figures
I LOVE ONLY 1:28 😍
Their best plane models are in 1:32 scale. Just saying.
As an outsider: Why would anyone buy Brickmania sets? They look like shit when compared to Cobi, and are expensive as tripple-fuck!
100% official Lego parts can go a long way for some people, especially if they are making a diorama with purely Lego bricks.
Some Custom Minifig collectors will buy a kit just for an exclusive minifig. Which I'll admit Brickmania minifigs and accessories are where the company actually shines.
Another case can be the rarity and FOMO since Brickmania kits are produced in miniscule amounts compared to Cobi. The aftermarket prices on somewhere like Ebay can reflect that.
Are these dumb reasons? Yeah. But Lego purists love shooting themselves in the foot, It's the purist mentality at its worse.
Doesn't help that Brickmania actively shoots down non-Lego brands like said in the video.
Poor Brickmania.....Cobi makes greatly superior models.
I think this a very interesting topic to discuss, but I don't know man...
I really agree with a lot of things you say like:
-Building Blocks are a toy, not meant for scale models (primarily) and resulting in not 100% true scale measurements
-Sets can only get so small before functions and features need to be cut
-Brickmania's kits are too expensive for what they offer (LOL)
But I feel like this video is more you bashing it out on Brickmania and their "Fanboys", blaming them for creating the "1:35th stigma" and being the reason COBI does 1:35 and so on.
Half of the stuff and your arguments I remember from the video without rewatching is more about how Brickmania sucks rather than the actual scale discussion...
What I mean is things like, was it really necessary to put the prices next to Brickmania's kits in the scale accuracy comparisons?
I wish this video would be a little bit shorter and more streamlined on the actual scaling issues rather then constantly bringing up how Brickmania is bad and other things like that, not helping the discussion of scale.
Okay feedback over, now I wanna add some of my own opinion:
I have to clearify, that I have no COBI moccing experience, however I do have almost a decade in moccing with LEGO. That includes a variety of things like 1/6th posable figures, 1/35th military vehicles and 1/48th Trains. Take note though, even as I say "1/48th", that doesn't mean a true scale in all dimensions. As you said, it's LEGO after all, you have to make some small deviations.
Same goes for any further mentioning of scales. I just don't want to write "1/30-1/38th scale" all the time or something.
I don't personally see the 1/35th scale-ish territory as a bad fit for LEGO or COBI military sets. You can fit a lot of features, while keeping it relatively small. Which is good, as COBI is primarily a toy for children and not a modelers kit or display piece. And I think kids don't really care about the scale of their figures that much, as long as they can play and interact with vehicle and figure.
In my opinion COBI should continue the 1/35th scale, but don't cheap out on details (I love how each new set nowadays adds more detail, they rock!).That way kids are happy and can play, while people like me, who just like this kind of size of model to display (yes I own a few COBI sets because they just look awesome) and want to admire all the details that were still being able to be put in, have a cheap way of getting military building block models.
Yet I also think bigger scales like 1:28th scale SHOULD be made by COBI for people like you, who truely wish for a consistent-in-itself scale model with even more details. Maybe a 1:28th scale could even get it's own minifigure, thus solving that problem as well.
(EDIT: I SHOULD ALSO CLEARIFY THAT I WOULDN'T CONSIDER MYSELF A BRICKMANIA FANBOY. AS A LEGO MOCCER, I RESPECT WHAT THEY ARE ABLE TO DELIVER IN TERMS OF INGENIOUITY, BUT DON'T CONDONE THER PRICES [THEIR RECENT START TO PROVIDE INSTRUCTIONS IS VERY GOOD AND AFFORDABLE THOUGH] NOR DO I EVER PLAN TO BUY AN ACTUAL KIT FROM THEM. MY LIMITED LIKING OF BRICKMANIA IS MORE DESIGN-BASED ON A TECHNICAL LEVEL AND NOT THE REASON OF ME WRTITING THE FOLLOWING THINGS. I AM PURELY POINTING OUT SOME THINGS I THOUGHT WERE UNFAIR TO JUST THROW OUT THERE AND ALSO DOESN'T HELP THE ACTUAL SCALE DISCUSSION. I WOULD DO SO FOR ANY OTHER BRAND. OKAY HOPEFULLY NO ONE THOUGHT THAT WAY ANYWAY, BUT I WANNA MAKE SURE.)
Lastly I wanna talk a bit about Brickmania (and maybe even fall back into the feedback part - oops). YES, their models are not museum pieces, YES they are very expensive and YES they might think of them a bit too highly. HOWEVER, as someone who builds 1/35th military LEGO MOCs, I can say ordering the pieces for them (even used, which is cheaper than new pieces) after shipping and all, I get close to their prices for a MOC. And thats excluding minifgures and other custom and printed pieces, an instruction booklet and everything else Brickmania would provide. So theoretically their prices are horandous, but considering all their parts are new, and their designs are restricted to using pieces you can get your hands on in "new" quality in bulk, they are realistic.
GENERAL TIPP FOR EVERYONE BTW: If it's too expensive, just don't buy it. There are hundreds of people providing like 10USD instructions for military MOCs on sites like Rebrickable. So if you want a LEGO military model, but don't wanna pay Brickmania prices, try other sites of fan-designs!
Also while some of the things they said about COBI in the bit you showed sound very mean and "looking-down-on-COBI-like", if you think about it, they are kinda true and not mean at all: If you owned a 1700 USD B-17 (or however much it costs), you wouldn't wanna let your little cousin play with it. A better option (and cheaper) for him would be a COBI one. So a lot of what they said feels kinda ripped out of context and instrumentalised for your own "I hate Brickmania"-Argument you push in this video. While in reality I see it as hidden Pro-COBI arguments and them just stating the obvious: COBI is more affordable, a better fit for children than Brickmania (more features, more stable) and a great entry into the brick-built military model hobby (doesn't mean it's only an entry and that Brickmania should be the destination).
Also after this whole "Brickmania sucks"-Propaganda - for lack of a better term - saying things like "Their sets are objectively bad" or worse or whatever feels more like a very subjective thing to say. I do agree COBI's sets display much better features and often better stability, but there are instances of where one might say COBI is objectively (or subjectively really, coz it all depends on what you want in a model!) worse: Yes the COBI F-14 is smooth and studless, but it can't fit a "real" minifig in it and uses a dummy, the wings need to be angled by hand, while Brickmania's F-14 has a gear function, the Brickmania one can subtract it's landing gear INSIDE the model and cover it with flaps - COBI's can't and so on and so on... (And yes, I know those two F-14s are in different scales, but RAZ himself compares them so I just went with this example)
So I think it is unfair (and shouldn't even be the point of this video) to say one brand is OBEJCTIVELY better than the other, based on criteria, only YOU have set up. Doesn't that make it subjective?
Call me a "Brickmania-Fanboy" now if you want, but rest assured I'll call you a "COBI-Fanboy" in return ;P
TL/DR:
-Whole "Brickmania sucks" argument feels out of place in this video and very subjective in generell
-Yes, building bricks aren't perfect for building models, so my idea is:
a) have COBI continue the 1/35th models for low price and children to play with as well as people who just want detailed 1/35th models
b) still add a 1:28th "Collectors Line" with maybe even custom figs for people who want that scale and the increased detail it comes with
NO HATE TOWARDS ANYONE AGREEING WITH THIS VIDEO, NOT LIKING MY IDEAS OR FEELING ATTACKED BY THIS COMMENT. IT'S ONLY MY VERY SPONTANIOUS THOUGHTS AFTER WATCHING THIS VIDEO AND I AM VERY OPEN TO FURTHER DISCUSSION! HAVE A NICE DAY AND STAY SAFE AND HEALTHY!
Very well thought out comment. I appreciate you taking the time to write it. That’s what this video was for; to start a discussion.
So to the Brickmania points:
1 - You literally cannot talk about 1/35 scale without bringing up Brickmania. They are the gold standard for 1/35 scale sets, and were building at that scale before everyone else.
2 - There is a significant crossover between Cobi and BKM's audience. I would say 30-40% of their audience are North American people who grew up with BKM, and that’s why I used them so much in the video. BKM is also featured in Bovington and other major museums just like Cobi. A lot of the MOC builders, and Cobi collectors either own a BKM set or have based one of their MOCs off of a BKM set.
3 - I could have used MOC builders more to demonstrate the scale issue, and I did in the original draft of the script, but I didn’t want to come off as rude. The Cobi MOC building community is very small, and they’re all really good guys. Also, they all mostly speak Polish so a lot would be lost in translation. I didn’t want to hurt any feelings, so I thought it would be easier to use BKM as a stand-in for the issues with 1/35 scale, because they're a big company and probably don't care what I think. Where as Cobi / Lego MOC builders are individuals who would feel attacked if I tore into their MOCs. Also, the BKM fan-base is extremely toxic to any non-BKM builds and they constantly sh*t all over Cobi. They started this beef years ago, not me. Read the comments of the BKM video I used if you don't believe me. I put the link the in the description and told people in the video to watch the whole BKM video. I think that's pretty unbiased and telling people to have their own opinion.
4 - The video is mainly about 1/35 scale and the issues it has and a defense for 1/28 scale. The main reason BKM gets brought up so much is because they have so many examples of 1/35 scale, and when you’re trying to fill a 27 min video of you talking it’s easier to show examples of the scale itself. I think my only real beef with BKM is their prices. Every other issue I mentioned in the video is inherent to the scale they build at, and the bricks they use so they don't really have much control over that because it's what their fans expect.
5 - I’m a grown ass man who builds Legos for fun, every opinion I have is invalid.
Well, in one thing I must disagree. I am huge fan of 1:35 scale, but I know almost shit and care even less about brickmania. So this whole argument doesn't work for me ;)
Such a shame Mega Constux doesn't do WW2 sets anymore. 1.35 is so bad.....MC figures with cobi 1.28 tanks is or should i now say was....fantastic.
Is it illegal to make lego battlefields and use cobi vehicles for a battle moc?
great editing
Well, you kinda are wrong with minifgs. They have new legs, bigger torsos, which like 2,3 years ago they didnt have. So 1:35 is almost perfect
my only problem with 1:28 is that it means the set will be more expensive....
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I have thought about COBI. Everyone has their own choice. But i like brickmania. I dont buy alot. But BRKM kits do look great. Brickmania is really for people who are bit older and can afford. Now here's the thing. My parents bought me a kit or two years ago so i wasnt as old. One comparison is the tiger 2 COBI is like 38cm long? And the BRKM is like 24? Im not exactly sure. But brickmania size is better. Price. Some are nuts yes. I saw a boat that was more than a tiger 1 i believe. Mini figs are costly too some more than others.
Nah 1:45 scale is the way to go it fits minifigures best. 1:28 is way too big lol.
I don't know why I'm here,I prefer brickmania,belive its the supiror product,but most importantly I can afford it. I don't get why people try to make cobi into brickmania,I want brickmania you want cobi,let's not try and make a gross hiprid
I honestly think BKM may not exist in 3 years. Cobi is just cheaper and can print custom pieces better than BKM. I don't see a future for BKM. This is nothing against their work, I respect the heck out of BKM and what they've done for MOC builders, but they're just too expensive to exist with Cobi as their competition.
@@RazReviews agreed,but the sets are still selling but there not trying to compete with cobr,rather fill a smaller niche I'm the lego military scene if the ever stop making kits however i could see them exclusively making Figures and printed tiles for there digital instructions
@@wyattchristenson5698 That new Panzer 4 they just released looks pretty sick.
@@RazReviews exactly,while it's expensive it's worth it to me because cobi can never make something like that,and they don't try to because they don't need to
This video is a systemic skill issue XD
1:35 is the best scale for tanks in a moc, who wants a tiny ass tank thats as big as a normal lego car, tanks are obv bigger than cars, i dont want my tanks to be smaller than my minifigures, but 1:28 scaled tanks or vehicles are for playing with, not mocs