I actually had a knock-off brick stud gate station (though I like to call”third-party bricks’) a few years back not knowing that lego might be releasing the very same set some years later. It also has gotten quite some bits that I need to change,like the roof ,as it keeps bending whenever I want to open it to play,or the train cart’s wheels does not even work on lego tracks!
I always think that Lego’s got a bad problem of set ideas leaking to other companies,like the tallneck set ,or them Harry Potter train set etc,etc,etc,etc,etc.