April 26th 2019 was a sad day for fans of LEPIN. The most hated bootleg LEGO brand was destroyed. This forced all other bootleg brands like Sembo, BELA, Lele to lay low. Aliexpress and Taobao exercised keyword control on search terms such as LEPIN. At the same time, prices shoot up for remaining stocks of LEPIN on second hand resellers site.

Though the alleged boss of LEPIN was jailed, the shareholders of LEPIN aren’t standing still. A factory was soon built and LEPIN was reborn as the “KING”. At this point of writing, several sets had already being released discreetly.

Following are photos supplied to us by our sources. To avoid trouble, most of the packaging are in plain black and white sketch and outline. Still, the product numbers followed LEPIN’s product code.

The latest Simpson sets adopted the full color boxes, unlike previous black and white boxes. Didn’t King learnt the lesson?

Currently, the way to look for LEPIN/KING set is by searching the product code on Aliexpress. As long as making bootleg LEGO is lucrative, there would always be another LEPIN. As for the fate of the LEPIN boss, rumor is that the person in charged was merely a front man for the operation. He was ex-chauffeur for Meizhi’s boss and was asked to be manager for LEPIN factory. The truth isn’t important here as LEPIN is back as the “KING” and lawyers of LEGO would be busy again.