Like a few other reviewers I thought the lights were slightly over-priced, but putting that aside... I appreciate it's very difficult to show online a realistic picture of how the lights look in a naturally subdued light environment but this didn't bother me too much when I compared the two. The size took me slightly by surprise, but again, no matter. I think the main criticism would be that one colour ball (there were I think three of these), mid-blue?, was much thinner than any of the others and therefore collapsed immediately in trying to push through the cable & bulb making it annoyingly difficult to push them back into shape.