Yeah, I didn't mean that the company Lefun / CB / Z is explicitly connected to LanLan (actually "Z" is the brand of Champion's Cube Store... which is the same as "HelloCube"... so confusing!), but I have the LanLan one on my hands, and the look of the pieces in the photos, as well as the listed weight and size of the puzzle, matches LanLan very well. It wouldn't be the first time, by far, that Z released a "repackaged" version of someone else's puzzle with new stickers.
I just wish somebody would do an even better one than the Qiyi - maybe a magnetic or ball bearing one.
Actually, I meant to make a detailed, in-depth video on the master pyraminxes before this 4th one appeared (which is why I have all of them in the first place), and I believe Shengshou is superior. The clicky notches on the Qiyi one are
way too strong for their own good, compared to the tension of the puzzle itself. No matter what tensions you set, the puzzle essentially just "snaps" between states, so to say, because it takes more effort to disengage the clicky notches than it takes to actually rotate the layers (which are lightweight). Shengshou is slower but much more controllable.
Also, the notches are just small plastic bumps that have a very small area of effect, compared to ball bearings - but then again, you probably can't have ball bearings
that deep inside the puzzle, there's just no space. Magnets would solve the problem, because with them, you don't have to worry that their position comes "outside" the puzzle in the middle of a turn (with ball bearings and notches, that would be a problem).
Shengshou doesn't have any alignment mech of any sort, but it's very smooth, quite forgiving with corner cutting (more than Qiyi actually), and just "feels right", if it makes sense - it flexes just enough for it to be helpful rather than annoying. If anyone is on the fence about which Master Pyraminx to get, I strongly recommend Shengshou, and in white plastic if you don't mind it (feels slightly smoother).
