Yuxin Mirror Blocks review and comparison

First I want to thank LightTake for sending me this.  Now, I was interested in this because for the past year most thing Yuxin comes out with just seem to be a cheaper but improved version of other cubes on the market, especially for their 5x5.  When I took this out I was first surprised that there was no stickers, not even on the side to install.  Now this is the blue version and it looks like there are stickers on the white and black version.


So out of the box this was horrible.  It was slow and extremely tight.  Later that day I popped some of the caps off to loosen it.  Many of the screws were stripped and one of them was so bad I still haven’t been able to loosed it at all.


After a bit of loosening the cube was a bit better, corner cutting well but nothing in reverse.  I took a couple pieces out and noticed something odd.  This looked very similar to my old Shengshou Mirror cube.  I took that out and not only is it similar, it looks like the exact same cube.  Now many cubes are similar and there are a lot of companies that mimic a design but this is a straight up copy.  Even the center caps are the same, including the odd center cap on the smallest side.  


This cube does not feel much different from the Shengshou at all and although comes in blue or pink is not any sort of improvement.  Now I did my review of the Fangcun Ghost cube and gave it a bit of a pass because the Mefferts one is hard to come by and much much more expensive.  The Yuxin mirror cube on light take’s site is about double what the Shengshou one is.  
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So, this is one of the first time I am beyond disappointed in a review.  If I had just tried this in the first place and never had a Shengshou I might not feel this way, but after this terrific year from Yuxin I would expect more.  I will put a link to the Yuxin, but above that I will put the link to the Shengshou cube which is in my eyes a much better purchase.