This is really cool but all I can think of is how as a kid I was never able to have any of the big, exciting Lego sets. It was always so disappointing to love Lego and see all the things I’d never get to play with.
Who is this priced for? (I know the answer). Things are getting so out of hand that kids can’t even play with toys anymore. So much has to cater to elitist cash grabs….
Don’t get me wrong, it’s cool that adults can grab a piece of nostalgia. I just feel like “the line” keeps getting pushed out further and further for what capitalism can get away with.
This is really cool but all I can think of is how as a kid I was never able to have any of the big, exciting Lego sets. It was always so disappointing to love Lego and see all the things I’d never get to play with.
Samies. Their catalogues were like porn mags for younger me, and I only managed to get one single pricier set of Bionicles after a long time collecting pocket money. It did frustrate me, but at the same time I was conditioned to endlessly reconfigure what I had and sometimes reverse engineer build ideas I saw in these ads, so, probably, I got more quality time for my buck than if I could got every set I wanted. Is that copium? Def smells like it, lol.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This and items like this are not marketed for kids. This is also not purely marketed for eletist cashgrabs. Ifyou are a real lego enthousiast, a thousand dollars might be achievable. There are also other arrangements, like renting the piece.
Fun fact, it was only going to be 499.99 before the tarrifs
That sounds about right.
It costs 999.99€ in Europe too though.
Source?
It’s not even the complete death star, it’s just a cut away.
still there will be idiots who will pay for this.
There was a set with 11065 pieces in it that was 250 bucks new.
In fairness those are 11,000 1x1 plates. I was shocked at the $1k price tag and wouldn’t buy this set but it’s actually on the cheaper side of $0.10/brick compared to the rest of their Star Wars sets.
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I don’t care about the price per se, but this set is just… not worth it. I mean look at it.
Good that it’s a Star Wars model. Saves me a lot of money, because I won’t buy it.
Lego.com: here is an ad popup! Cookie popup!
Ugh, I’m already out before I got in
$1000 for some plastic shit? It’s obvious they’re just baiting the collectors.
Not playing the devils advocate, only as a fun fact:
The price of lego sets per piece (PPP) is pretty consistent over the years, almost since the 80s. Even the licenced sets are staying relatively close to the average PPP.
The big difference is, that all the Lego enthusiast kids from the 80s and 90s are now adults with disposable income and Lego is riding this wave since the mid 2000s by releasing bigger and bigger sets aiming mainly adults, who can in theory buy them.
Here is an insanely in-depth analysis about the prices if someone is interested:
https://therealityprose.wordpress.com/2013/01/17/what_happened_with_lego/
I would have paid more for a more complete set but I don’t want this one.
They’re buggin but Lego/star wars fans are gonna be the ones to set the new price per piece if they just eat this up
What’s the big deal? It’s just a small moon.
I guess Lego chose not to pay the tariff for the Americans.
Consoom plastic decoration, cattle.
