• dingus@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    Things are getting so out of hand that kids can’t even play with toys anymore.

    I understand what you’re getting at, but these lines of Lego toys are specifically designed as being “for adults”. So the price tag is not for a children’s toy. Once Lego found out that they can charge a shitton more money to make sets for adults, they started doing so.

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      19 hours ago

      Dude enough. $1000 for plastic bricks is fucking batshit. Idgaf who the target audience is, there’s no justifying a price like that for a toy.

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        18 hours ago

        It’s also 9000 pieces.

        Don’t get me wrong, I think Lego sets are typically way more expensive than they should be, but this doesn’t seem outrageous to me given the scale of the set.

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          15 hours ago

          Average price per piece for Lego is $0.10-$0.15. This one is coming in at about $0.11 which is on the cheaper side. You’re right that the sheer size and complexity is what makes it $1,000.

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            Yeah, now think of how many 1x1 pieces there are in here that adds to piece count. As I’ve built a few more sets recently, the amount of 1x1 is rediculous given they could use 2x1 or 3x1 in many situations I’ve seen their usage in. And it’s in almost every single set.

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        19 hours ago

        Did I say the price was reasonable lmao??? No. I just said it is marketed to adults, so it isn’t kids being “priced out” of a toy like the above user stated.

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          19 hours ago

          Did I say you said the price was reasonable lmao??? No. I just said that price is batshit insane regardless of the target audience. Thanks for playing.

          • dingus@lemmy.world
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            19 hours ago

            Well you’re the one out here downvoting me when we are both on the same page so I don’t understand what your problem is.