Though Christmas is around the corner but China clone brick maker had started preparing for Chinese New Year set. This review is about ZhuMo 12032 Chinese New year Lion Dance set. The set shall go well with any Chinese New Year related theme sets including those released by Danish brand LEGO. The photos were courtesy of CK.

The box printed with traditional Chinese characters indicating “China Style” and what’s the set was about (Lion Dance).

On the back of the box was teaser of upcoming sets including temple fair and dragon dance. Though the design kind of resembling LEGO 80104 Lion Dance, Zhumo actually released the set before LEGO announced its own.

The maker is Forange Block, if you don’t know who they were, “Big Elephant” shall ring a bell. We weren’t sure whether ZhuMo was using Big Elephant as OEM maker or was sub-brand if it.

Oversize box which is a typical practice of China clone bricks maker.

Instruction manual.

No numbering bags which wasn’t an issue as the set only had 494 parts.

As per the normal practice, let’s take a look at the minifigures. There were two minifigures in yellow and red lion dance costume and mascot head. If you just want the lion dance mascot minifigures, you could order them separately as J1001-J1002 on Aliexpress.

The back of the lion dance mascots with matching cape.

Front, side and back printing for the legs. Unfortunately the yellow minifigure had misaligned prints on the side leg.

Very nicely done coloring on lion heads. The flow of the fur on the back of the head was well represented.

Holding a staff to tease the lion later. Note the staff was only included in this set.

The red and yellow lion built entirely in bricks. The built were the same, just different in colors.

The designer was clever in using different parts to build a lion head.

The lion was restricted to up and down movement only.

The lion was connected by single joint at different parts.

Two very playful lions in different poses.

The lions and the mascots in matching colors. You may order Zhumo 12032 Lion Dance set from Aliexpress. Else you could just order the minifigures J1001-J1002 here.

On separate note, some pointed out the minifigures were copying the design of a third party maker “天方夜谈”. Below was the alleged original design and we leave you to judge for yourself.

You could check out our reviews on related Chinese New Year sets.

Sembo SY1260 Bootleg of Chinese New Year’s Eve Dinner LEGO 80101

Sembo SY1261 Dragon Dance Bootleg of LEGO 80102



