They do list an age range of 4 to 99 so he’s well within normal limits.
The product is known as LEGO. The plural is not LEGOs.
The boxes contained multiple pieces of LEGO.
A shipment of glass does not contain glasses. It contains multiple pieces or sheets of glass.
I’m going to assume that you used the grammatical nightmare “I’m going to call it LEGOs…” just to annoy me.
I want you to know that you doing that has made me incredibly aroused.
Language evolves. Incorrect pronunciation, punctuation, and pluralization can become “correct” through popular usage.
Lego is a registered trademark. Legos isn’t.
Thats the real reason for the language push.
What do you think would happen if you tried to sell “Legos”?
Do you think Lego would agree with you then?
time for them to register Legos then, instead of trying to fight global linguistic trends
Exactly! Just like we eat a bowl of popcorns or a plate of rices or pastas with beefs or porks, maybe with a nice glass of wines, teas or milks. After that we can go to the beach to play in the sands or if it’s winter we stay in and watch the snows.
over 2,800 boxes of LEGO sets, each ranging in price from $20 to $1,000.
Not to be reductive and at the risk of pissing off Lego fans, how much could those $1000 sets cost Lego to make? We’re talking about plastic bricks that must cost a fraction of a cent per brick.
Legos are very cool but they seem ridiculously overpriced to me. Especially now that they’re getting fans to design things, so they can’t even claim any sort of R&D going into it.
I’m not going to disagree they’re overpriced, especially the bigger collector sets, but they are built to insanely perfect tolerances and that’s never cheap. Use any generic blocks and it’s easy to see Lego manufacturing is on another level. In addition I’ve built countless sets and despite thousands of tiny pieces I’ve only had one piece missing, once. And customer support sent out that piece immediately, no questions asked.
I believe much of the cost comes from the standards they hold themselves to.
Bootleg Lego are the saddest thing. They have cool designs but the pieces not being built with the same precision makes them a shore to build. Assembled pieces just don’t hold together and it becomes an unfun disaster.
Some things just need that level of insane precision and consistency to work well and comes at a cost.
I tried to give other brands a chance, primarily because Lego doesn’t dabble in war builds, but yeah I built a kit, picked it up to move it and half fell out because the bricks were not able to tightly clasp. I suppose it’s less of a problem if you glue, but notably different experiences indeed.
That’s starting to not be true. Several of the brands out of China have better manufacturing quality than LEGO these days.
In addition to this - brand value and licensing costs or however they structure their deals with other companies.
Yeah I jumped on the $500 Rivendell set and was more than happy to pay that. Before that one came out my brother and I always talked about how sad we were that we didn’t get the older LoTR sets
But don’t they hold themselves to the same standards for smaller sets and use the same machines to make them?
Yeah of course, but I think a lot more design goes into something like Millennium Falcon 75192 ($850) than Millennium Falcon 75375 ($85), it’s 6600 more bricks to build. The collectors builds also tend to have more specialized one off parts.
Estimates vary but seem to be between 5 and 10 cents per brick.
Lego definitely makes a profit, but they also haven’t done the usual thing for a business to do, make the product cheaper to squeeze more out of it. In fact, one of the reasons to choose lego over another is the tight tolerances they have for their Legos, they fit better and hold better than a knockoff.
So like, yeah, business, they’re trying to make money, but its not the clear-cut fake inflation thing going on, or even necessarily price gouging, as far as I could determine. Its more, this is what a quality product costs, they haven’t cheaped out, but it just feels so prohibitively expensive because people aren’t paid enough in general.
That’s not exactly true, the manufacturing quality of LEGO has gone down in recent years after moving much of the manufacturing to China. For example, you’ll find more parts with ejection marks in them today than you used to.
Ironically there are a few good Chinese knockoff brands with superior quality now.
LEGOs
No such thing.
That is so much LEGO. Wow.
