Today we are reviewing “No Brand” 25010 The Upside Down set which is counterfeit of LEGO 75810. Many China clone brick makers are playing cat and mouse game with LEGO and one of the strategy is going brand less. Still, this particular “brand” is literally brain less by including the factory name and address on the box. The photos in this review are courtesy of A4. Do buy the original if possible! There are lots of photos in this review, detailing the building of this set. You might lost interests in getting this set after reading our review!

The box views, with Stranger Things changed to Stranger Story. The piece counts are higher than LEGO.

Our heart sank when we saw the maker is Xinglong, who is behind the Qizhile (启智乐）brand. That’s mean the parts quality would be sub standard! LEGO legal can locate them easily through the address.

Three inner boxes with three numbering bags. There are smaller bags with numbering as well.

Very thick instruction.

Correction to step 205. Please follow the insert.

Sticker sheet.

The numbering system that Qizhile used to assist in building.

In the manual, match “1.5” to bag 25010.1.5.

Bag 1 and all the smaller bags within it.

Hopefully this is isolated case, the handle bar is aligned to wrong direction. And no rubber tires given.

Most of the parts looked alright. Still, there are parts from different makers, which you could see from the yellow parts below. The injection holes are located in different places.

If you compared against LEGO’s manual, there are changed of parts, like two pieces of 1×3 swapped into single 1×6.

Single 1×4 swapped into 2 pieces of 1 x 2.

Display plate and minifigure stand done, sticker would be added later. The bike is an eye sore to look at.

Building the Hopper’s Chevy Blazer. This is from original manual.

And thanks to corner cutting, the original Base 4 x 12 x 3/4 with 4 x 2 Recessed Center was replaced and multiple parts were used to recreate it. This led to weaken structure for the truck. The pumpkin was swapped into an orange semi spherical part, which looks like a big carrot.

If following the instruction, this would be hard to insert.

The truck is fallen apart thanks to swapped parts and modified instruction.

Different wheel holders here.

We managed to build the truck, but the wheels are stuck and couldn’t turned.

Another instances of part swapped and changes.

Rare part 35459 swapped to normal 1×3. What do you expect out of clone brick maker?

Here comes the most horrible change in parts. The long 1 x 10 part with holes changed to combination of 1×4 plus 1 x2 plus 1×4. In original, there is no way you could swivel like this because it was fixed in place using single technic axle. The changes complicated the building process afterwards.

Fixing the two tress together.

If you refer to the original manual below, the connecting 1 x 14 brick with holes are swapped into multiple parts. Right now we are very worried about the stability of the tree structure.

The tree canopy had part swapped too, and the sausage parts which are used to connect the plant leaves are not given.

Till this stage, we aren’t surprise any more with the part changes. Single long piece swapped into two shorter pieces.

Take a look at the original manual and the No Brand version, how many parts that had been changed?

Let’s make it easy for you, here are the parts that had been changed, though there are more. And the red circle indicated the changes.

Bag 2, at this moment we almost wanted to give up. There is so many changes in parts and steps in Bag 1. Even LEPIN didn’t do so many changes in the past.

Wrap parts, not an issue after you build on top of it.

Original radio is single piece while No Brand is made of multiple pieces.

1 x 4 holes part changed to 2 pieces of 1 x 2 holes part.

The 1 x 2 hole vertical part is changed too.

Phone handle has been changed.

Below are original and the red rectangle highlighted the change of parts.

This is the original design for the poles inside the house. Again No Brand changed it and it affected the stability.

The string 63141 changed into a string without stud. The light bulbs are clipped into the string.

This is how the original looks like.

The vertical bar of the swing changed into two pieces.

The roof design follows the original.

Thanks to design change and differences in part tolerance, there were gaps underneath the roof.

The light brick is easy to switch on but hard to turn off.

The holes are punched into 149 instead of the starry sticker.

No starry effect, and the CCTV had been swapped.

You need two smooth tiles to cover the 2 x 6 below.

This is unacceptable! This reminded us of the experience in LEPIN Ninjago City back then.

Flip over the house and so far no parts fallen, phew!

This is the last bag, though at this stage we kind of immune to the part changes and lost our hope that this set can be any better.

Similar part swapped, changes in building steps for the Upside Down House.

Make sure you follow the corrected instruction.

We kind of like the blue roof tiles.

Well, another change in part, this time the black whip was changed into another part and it’s impossible to wrap it around the pole.

The Upside Down house completed.

Time to join two houses together. It would be safer if you lay the house down before forcing the ball joints together.

Two world joined together.

The central of gravity tilted toward the back.

If you want to flip the house, make sure you hold the plate instead of the tree trunk. The tree is easily broken apart if you try to turn around by holding to them.

With Upside Down on top.

This review wouldn’t be complete without the minifigures. Sadly all of them had parts changes. Will, Dustin, Joyce and Eleven. The hair pieces and hat are different to the original. Eleven is without her pink skirt.

Accessories for the minifigures.

Lucas, Hopper, Mike and Demogorgon.

Complete No Brand Upside Down set with Hopper’s Chevy Blazer on top. The truck will likely to drop if you turn the house upside down.

In summary, we don’t recommend you get this set. There are so many part changes and bad building experience. Either you get the original or wait for other makers to release it. You could still order No Brand 25010 The Upside Down from Aliexpress if you insisted.