2020 is indeed the year of pirated LEGO MOC. To avoid legal problem with Danish brick, the China clone brick makers turned their attention to MOCers and “stole” their designs for production. If you have any MOC design that you like, most likely it would be produced by one of the China clone makers one day. Today we are taking a look at Qizhile 90007 The Empire Over Jedha City which is based on a MOC by onecase. We appeal to you to buy the instruction from onecase as compensation for his design. The MOC itself is based on a scene from the movie Rouge One: A Star Wars story, where a Star Destroyer hovers over the Jedha City. The photos of this reviews is courtesy of CK.

Open Box of Qizhile 90007

Qizhile changed their logo if you happened to had bought their products before. The box itself showcasing the end product with brick count of 5473 pieces, recommended age of 6 (are you kidding me?) and display dimension of 52cm x 32cm x 34cm.

Qizhile or QZL 启智乐 logo on two black inner boxes.

Instruction manual with two correction pages. We didn’t compare QZL’s manual with onecase instruction and unable to confirm what has been changed or altered.

Bags 1 are common parts and we recommend you to sort those parts before building. Bags 2 and 3 corresponding to the actual building steps.

The serial numbers on the bag matched the steps on the manual.

Building Process

Piles of bricks from bags one. The bricks are clean and colors are consistent. The parts have moderate level of clutching. However the technic parts are tight.

The base are stacked using various pieces of plates of different sizes and consume lots of time to get them together. Our fingers ache after long hours of assembling them.

Supporting structure at the bottom of the base.

Lots of plates on top of each others. Use a rubber mallet to whack them in place.

Finally the base or the mountain is done.

Part quality is good so there isn’t uneven surface.

On top of the base, we raise the Jedha City.

The nightmare came when building the Jedha City. Because of the smaller bricks, we can’t use mallet and the fingers are the only way to press them together. It’s like building jigsaw puzzle and you have to refer to manual and get the right pieces in place.

The city is done and the next would be the Star Destroyer.

The structure is weak in certain part and do secure them with extra parts of your own.

This is separate section of the Star Destroyer and build using technic parts.

Assembling the separate sections together to form the final piece of the Star Destroyer.

Brick build Star Destroyer hovers over Jedha City completed.

Detail Look at the Empire Over Jedha City

The cut scene from the movie.

Comparing against the scene from Rouge One movie.

The detailing of the rock formation took many hours.

Personally we preferred a deeper tone of yellow compared to the light one.

Jedha City in miniature scale.

For Star Destroyer, the structure needs a bit of securing.

Abundant use of smooth tiles for the deck.

The bridge is connected to the main body with two studs only.

Liberal use of greebling on the back of the Star Destroyer.

The minifigures aren’t included but we get the main characters to post for with the end model.

The Verdict

We can’t help to awe by the finished brick built Star Destroyer over Jedha City. The credit goes to onecase for designing such a wonderful LEGO MOC, though we built using non-LEGO bricks. There are lots of stacking of bricks especially the plates so be patience. It took us 15 hours to assemble the model. The parts had moderate level of clutches and acceptable quality in color tones and hand feel. Only the technic parts are tight in clutches. You may order Qizhile 90007 from the Aliexpress.

In fact this is the second time The Empire Over Jedha City being commercialize. Last year a private seller on Taobao and Aliexpress sourced the parts himself and had a limited release of this model. Beside Qizhile, the Mould King would release its iteration of the onecase model sometime later and you could order Mould King 21007 on Aliexpress as well. The difference would be Mould King sourced the bricks from Gobricks and may introduce changes to the instruction as per their usual practice.