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I don’t understand the interest in lego sets. They were great to me as a kid because they were cheap and you could build whatever. But now as an adult they do have these expensive ass sets that always look fugly as hell and you really can only build what the box shows as the pieces are custom to the set

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Completely agree. I loved Legos as a kid but now they suck. Why would I want to buy a set that can realistically only be used with that set. It’s way too complicated. I want to dump them all in a bin then build whatever I want and not have to sort through all these useless niche fucking pieces.

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24 points

While you may not like the new sets, I don’t think Lego has ever been cheap (source on price over time.

I think as kids, we just never realize how much things actually cost.

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4 points

I only remember getting lego buckets and occasionally a lego design book. This is in the early 80’s

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@Tronn4 @jacksilver

That’s what I had. Just buckets and buckets of second hand legos. Some probably from the 1950s.

Some were probably so dirty that they were permanently dirty. And I build a dino-cow. What’s a dino-cow? It’s a half T-rex, half cow. Because I can!!!

Now kids are like “Here, build THIS”. My niece doesn’t know what to do with random assorted legos with no build.

I told her to quote Carl, “I don’t NEED no INSTRUCTIONS to know how to ROCK!!!”

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7 points

Both exist though and it’s surprising the number of pieces they reuse and adapt just by changing their color

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3 points

Looks nice. Me wants!

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Man, I hope they’ll make some smaller sets too. These are really cool display pieces, but I don’t have the room or willingness to spend that kind of money.

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16 points

Personally this set is a little unimpressive/boring. It’ll be interesting to see where they go from here cause the initial Mario sets were also lackluster.

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@jacksilver @misk

IT’S $300???

I’m out.

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That’s on par for a set with that many pieces.

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2 points

I’m not sure if it’s valid anymore (I am far from a brick aficionado but I have friends that are very into it), but the old rule of thumb says $0.10 per piece, which would put this at $250. $50 Nintendo tax doesn’t seem out of the question, either.

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1 point

But it looks like most of them are the leaves.

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1 point

Yeah, I don’t disagree. Certainly not worth it at that price point for me.

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13 points

It looks cool, but I’ll never get over Lego sticker shock. I guess I’ve been out of the game too long.

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I know right. For 300 notes, I want a lot more Lego than that.

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