This is reviews of Mould King 13088 Avtoros Shaman 8×8. This would be the second time Avtoros Shaman MOC by Madoca1977 being stolen and released commercially by China clone brick maker with LEPIN being the first. Mould King was second that “borrowed” the design without any compensation. Speaking of Mould King, it was rival to LEPIN’s parent company Meizi Model in the toy RC car market and temporary absence of LEPIN created an opportunity to fill the gap. This reviews was possible thanks to contribution of CK, A4 and Laoliang. Most of the parts were supplied by Gobricks while Mould King was designing and packaging the set for sale.



We will break the reviews into four sections. There are lots of photos and writing so bare with us.

1. Open Box and Build

2. Showcasing the completed built.

3. Comparison between LEPIN and Mould King.

4. Changes that Mould King made to the design.

Casting aside IP issue, did Mould King did justice to brilliant design of Madoca1977? Let’s found out in this reviews. Note that we didn’t try out the Bluetooth control mode via mobile app.

Section 1: Open Box and Build

Very nice and shiny box with cool box art.

Open the box and two inner boxes with joining picture of the Avtoros Shaman.

Manual and two sticker sheets.

Contents of Box A.

Box B and its contents.

Labeling the power functions by stickers which aid the building later.

Remote controller, two battery boxes with Bluetooth receivers built in. They will pair with the controller once powered on.

Mould King controller on the left, LEPIN controller on the left. Mould King used two batteries versus three batteries of LEPIN.

All the power functions.

Charging the controller will take 150-180 mins, but we are confused about the requirement of input voltage not exceed 5V and current not exceeding 1A. How are we supposed to find charger that fit the requirement?

Instruction on how to steer the model and linkage of the power functions to the battery boxes.

Building from Bags label 1.

Last three axle were carbon fibre, they were very tough and impossible to bend.

The sticker labeling on power functions were of great help during the building process.

Inserting the gear into one of the carbon fiber axle. It was quite hard to insert into technic gears.

We made a mistake here, it’s one stud higher, the axle wasn’t supposed to expose here.

Building continues for bags numbered 2.

Bags numbered 3.

Unlike LEGO, you have to build these parts manually. A nightmare for your fingers.

The third carbon fiber axle was used for winch.

Numbering bags 4.

M Motor for switching steering mode (AWS and crab). However thing was not what it meant to be and we would explain at section 4.

Bags 5 to build. Most of the steps involving connecting power functions to battery boxes.

Driver seat but not in minifigure scale.

Building bags numbered 6. Connecting the winch and the M motor.

Whoops, something wrong here! Error in instruction manual. We will come back to that later.

Bags 7

When in crab steering mode, M motor activated and two grey axles would rise up. But, there was a bug here, the steering rack didn’t pivot as per design. We would explain in section 4.

Bags 8 and we reach the end of the built. Mainly decoration and touch up of the outer appearance.

Interesting finding here, the tire had matching LEGO serial number 18450 ( Tire 81.6 x 44 R) on it. M094 was part number of Gobricks. One feature of Gobricks parts were the dual serial numbering which printed both LEGO and own serial numbers. Would this create legal issue with LEGO? If LEGO lawyer is reading this, do take note.

Section 2: Showcasing the completed built.

This is Mould King Avtoros Shaman 8×8, yes we knew that thanks to that sticker. The absorber spring on the left was installed upside down which we didn’t notice during photo taking.

Anyone knows what “2734 To 69” means here? Didn’t see that in Madoca1977’s original design.

The right door had an error here. The protruding part supposed to face inward. We mentioned about it during building bags 6.

Simple open and close mechanism for door.

Section 3: Comparison between LEPIN and Mould King.

LEPIN on the left, Mould King on the right. LEPIN 23011 version was full replication of Madoca1977’s design, while Mould King made some changes. From the top, the roof of Mould King set was built parts instead of single piece.

The window design had changed, could you notice the difference?

Mould King came with 2 battery boxes, 2 servo motor, two L motors and 2 M motors. No lighting kit. Mould King had Bluetooth mode that could be control via mobile phone app.

Lepin 23011 version got more power functions and extra battery boxes. However, LEPIN 23011 was no longer available.

Section 4: Changes that Mould King made to the design.

For fans of Madoca1977, did Mould King follow the original design and produce the set that did justice to Madoca1977? Unfortunately Mould King did made modification to the design.

Step 330 on Mould King’s manual. Compared with original manual step 319, one black pin was missing. Though it still work, but that section appear to be a bit loose. The manual designer could accidentally left the step out when copying from the original instruction.

Step 319 in Madoca1977’s manual which showed a black pin was inserted to secure the section.

The right door with protruding part. Just switch the left and right from 517 steps. If you still don’t get it, go and read Madoca1977’s manual.

This is how the right door supposed to look after correcting the steps.

Mould King swapped the shock absorber to LEGO part 76537 equivalent (Techic, Shock Absorber 6.5L – Hard Spring). The original design was LEGO part 76138 soft spring.

Here comes the section that literally castrate Madoca1977’s design for crab steering. Earlier we mentioned the M motor wasn’t working as per design for crab steering. Mould King left out the switch that pivot the rack into same angle.

In Modoca1977’s design, the gear moves one stud forward and fix front rack. The steering angle of 1st axle is the same as 2nd axle.

For Mould King, the pivot didn’t result the same angle for steering rack. The wheels are turned into same direction but the angle is not fixed. The so called crab steering would not perform at 45 degree because the tires aren’t turned into the same angle. You could opt to switch to the original design by referring to the original design manual.

Is it worth getting the Mould King 13088 given there were changes to the design? The build took us over 20 hours, and not recommend for the first time Technic builder. However, many would still want to try out legendary Madoca1977 MOC via more affordable mean.

First, most of the parts were supplied by Gobricks with top notch quality, unlike Kevin crappy parts. Second, the crab steering mechanism had been modified but it’s something you could revert back to original design. Third, you could control the car via mobile phone app, which is absent in original design. Could you build using original manual? Yes and No. You need to be a proficient builder of Technic MOC and had parts that could replicate the design 100%. Also the remote control is different and require switch of modules. You could order Mould King 13088 from Aliexpress.