This week on Aliexpress I found these very cool modular buildings. They
are like Lego but made by the Sembo brand. Not bad for these buildings with nearly 1300 pieces. There are
two different buildings for sale, one is the bookshop (Sembo 601144) and the other is the
coffee shop (Sembo 601143).
In case you want to see what this set looks like, I reviewed it on my blog
Its-Not-Lego.blogspot.com. It's the Sembo Coffee Shop set 601143. I really enjoyed the
build and the bricks were just like Lego. As a bonus, these sets come with several minifigures and even light bricks to light up your modular buildings.
This is a new listing and therefore doesn't show up in the Aliexpress search results yet. Once, the listing becomes public, I'm sure the price will go up.
As you can see, the other listings on Aliexpress for this set are nearly
double the price at the time of this posting. There used to be a lot
more Aliexpress stores selling this but now there's only a handful left.
Like most of these alternative Lego sets, they are sometimes only limited runs
and after they're gone, they're gone.