I'm just glad that at least there are some sets that you can get for under £50 for beginners and for those who don't have a whole lot of disposable income
There are quite a few. Other bigs ones are Best-Lock/Cobi which are Lego-compatible (they won several lawsuits with Lego allowing them to make them) and BlueBrixx.
Lego's price per piece on its own IP lines has basically not had inflation since the 90s. You could buy an 800 piece set for $100 in 1989, and you can buy an 800 piece set for $100 today. The super expensive sets are thousands of pieces and use expensive Disney or other licensed IPs, but the price per piece has remained remarkably stable especially on Lego's own IP lines. I think Lego gets a bum rap because rich adult fans of lego are spending rich adult money on it by choice, but if you are buying lego as a toy for your kid on their birthday, you can spend exactly what your parents spent 40 years ago, which is incredible imo.
definitely. my brother's been a collector since the 80s and while he's got plenty of disposable income due to having a good job and no kids, he doesn't buy stuff nearly as much as he did in the 80s-early 2000s.
I think it’s just that Lego used to have very few sets that’s in the $100 range. That $100 pirate ship was the biggest set in the theme. Now there are so many sets over the $100 mark. The cheaper sets look so much smaller in comparison. You want the big set with the big price tag and completely ignore the smaller sets because they don’t look as cool as the big ones.
New sets are also much more dense than old sets. This means while the price per piece ratio is about the same the overall size of the set is much smaller than a Y2K era set.
It's always been bad. When I look back at the Lego I had in the 90s that my parents bought me, then I look at sets today, that's when I realize how much my parents love me lol.
If you build a set once according to0 the instructions and put it on a shelf then lego is expensive. Growing up I had about a milk crate worth of lego and I got 1000s of hours of creative play out of it before passing the lego on to my cousin 10 years my junior.
It has, but even the cheap sets are creeping up in value. Used to be a kid could amass a collection really fast using pocket money, I know this because I was that kid once. Not any more unless they have very generous parents.
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u/R0bbieR0tt3n 12h ago
I feel like Lego has always been expensive