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Omg a hit skeet

Dang, it doesn't even look that good. Might as well use the money to buy a 3d printer and make it yourself. Better.

Agreed! So many cool sets but definitely not priced to be accessible for most people. If they lowered them they could sell so many more sets! I’d probably spend way more on Lego overall if the individual sets cost less. But with how they are now, I’ll buy one every few years

$700.00 usd for a box of plastic is insane.

Tried to buy something at Christmas and was appalled at the prices. Didn't buy thing, will never buy anything from Lego. Just another Corporation robbing you blind for plastic

The ABS can NOT be this expensive

my head canon says danes are just good at selling shit to americans

It means, if you're a car fan in general, you can also get about that much in cars from Lego. The set scale is stupid excessively huge on the pika and starters, p much.

What happened to Lego blocks man. Building castles, police cars , spaceships and castle ships, and police castles and flowers on space horses Wasn’t the point of Lego the infinite imagination possible, these things are one shot and done .

that pikachu looks awful lol

This is why I stopped getting sets last year. The Batmobile was the last one I bought. Because this is insane. All that’s happening. Is people are buying these off and then jacking the prices up upon the resale market. You can find all of these sets for fractions of the price on eBay.

Oh you mean the prices? Yes, that’s nuts.

They don't even look like Lego ffs

yeah. dont buy lego at this scale anymore. there smaller sets are still fine but anything over a 100 dollars is a waste of money. theyre bad by any metric you pick for how to value lego.

Pricing is insane. I really can’t at that price.

I remember when most LEGO sets were an affordable pastime for all ages 🫩

I have a rule that i just dont buy lego above 75 dollars, or really any collectibles/“nerd stuff” Its cool and i love it but its never worth more lets be real

We lost a good thing with mega

I want the Gym badge case for $30 but it looks like they only sell it when. You buy the most expensive set.

(And if you buy these and don't open them, you're likely going to be able to sell them at a significant premium in 12-18 months.)

It piqued my curiosity because of my grandson...only 2 so he would have to be older.

pov me looking at those prices:

I fucking agree! This is just mean and greedy

Mega Blocks do sets which come together better and cost a fraction of the price

But why are they all shitting? Am i the only one that sees that?

Never underestimate the acquisitive dopamine drip in the brains of 46-year-old Pokemon Adults.

Gotta be gamefreak/TPC jacking the prices because eevee being $60 makes no sense. Minecraft and sonic amaze me at their affordability

The most expensive one was $900 here in Canada before taxes. Who the hell has $1K to spend on fucking Legos?

When the kid didn't grow up but their income did

Bro I'm not about to put a Lego set on layaway. Is that full size? Made of all smart bricks? That price is wild.

Charizard alone on the set has probably skyrocketted the re-sale price of that set from scalpers Better like all starters if you're buying it, I wish I could just have the Blastoise 🥲

You could build cheeper in minecraft

Adult collectors and investors. Don't underestimate the effect of people who buy to hold (and later re-sell) on this market.

Ah yes, the franchise for kids so they made sets explicitly not for children

It is honestly terrible how much they are charging for this stuff now. I remember when Lego was extremely reasonably priced back when it was a Kids toy. Since adults have taken an interest for collection reasons the prices have just ballooned.

Quite comical with Hot wheels cars. I saw this Cone car in one of the facebook group sold for 5-10x of MSRP. The fucker probably bought up the whole inventory but at least the shop i visit still has this one in the price reduced hot wheels bin.

Only adults appreciate the electric yellow mouse who says his own name adorably.

Bless.

If only there well building brick Pokemon sets that were priced better

Perhaps. I dont follow exactly what is available in detail. However, when I scan the shelves in my local stores for anything I'd consider a bargain, there are *loads* of affordable (arbitrary definition <AU$100) sets suitable for kids in the Technic, City, Friends, Ninjago etc. ranges.

Nah, at this point Lego is for religious fanatics. The alternatives aren't just cheaper, but better more often than not.

pokemon lego series being insanely expensive and exclusively featuring gen 1 stuff is so quintessentially pokemon it's hilarious

Gods above, that's absurd! I can go with an offbrand and pay like not even 1/3rd that for similar stuff, AND IT HAS ARTICULATION. (Limited, but.) and it's probably 10x easier to build. Less Detailed, yea, but easier on the wallet and hands.

Are they running out of Chinese plastic? or is it corpo greed fever?

It hardly looks like Lego anymore. It's no longer building with the parts we have, but every new product has it;s own unique pieces. Totally streamlined. I loved the old way of lego much more.

That Pikachu is cursed

we used to PLAY with lego with CREATIVITY

Like they could’ve made all three of the starters separate sets, cuz I’m sure there’s someone who’s gonna skip out on Charizard, but still want Blastoise. I also feel like they should’ve made SOME playscale models because Pokemon is really popular with kids

My husband plays Kings of War. He has a not to expensive 4-d printer and makes and paints all his pieces. Found people to play with on Facebook.

idk if you like lego so much but can't afford the crazy shit there are some slightly less expensive models I think that and ofc Lego Star Wars The Complete Saga is peak

It’s more affordable when you buy used stuff. Get someone‘s army project on eBay and continue from there. $649 will buy you at least two legit armies, if not three.

Yes This is way too expensive. But it’s Pokémon…but I’m still not buying.

The massive expensive collector sets are something that has skyrocketed in the past few years and was very much not always the case

Anyone buying consumerist items like this are just feeding the late stage capitalism. I dont believe that actual human beings will buy that. Im tired

Those Lego prices get expensive real quick

exactly all toys are for adults kids don't have the attention span for toys anymore

{after taxes} 800 dollar hunks of colored plastic sure is a way to spend your money i guess

Yeah fuck nintendo

200 dollars for a Pikachu?!

There should be a range. Lavish kits like these for grownups with the disposable income, but then smaller simpler kits for kids too

Crazy thing is that the price per piece isnt even bad for these sets

Seriously. The Star Trek TNG set is less than that starters set! I love Lego, but these are a definite pass. We’ll stick with the Animal Crossing sets. It would have been really cool if they did small sets featuring gym leaders with their Pokémon. A Cerulean City Gym set would be really cool.

I'd be tempted by the gym badges, but given the rest of these prices, I could probably buy authentic-looking metal replicas at a local con for like 1/4 of the price.

SupPly aNd DeManD

That's, uh, that's not a very cute Pikachu.

Tariffs and war with Denmark will fix this.

Dude I got the Mega Construx charizard for $10 at Walgreens

these prices are just stupid. I remember Lego sets costing 20$ for a decent sized one! No reason other than greed for all of this!!

respectfully, what

At this point, it would be cheaper to just assemble with all the bricks you already have, or buy them piece by piece.

They don’t look like any Legos I remember.

They have, check out Bluebricks too, they too sell merchandise items like the car from Back to rhe Future but are way more affordable. Also great own build made by them. No pokemon tho.

How about them Microplastics

In general people buy it at the price so they will keep increasing the price till people stop buying

I collect lego, as an adult, but I do not understand the desire to have a blocky, oddly shapped statue of cool looking things. I'd much rather have a set that is like a cool building, or an actually good Star Wars set that is not the millennium falcon.

That is insane

And that's why I was hoping for smaller sets instead of just this.

Bandai makes some great looking pokemon kits and they're cheap as hell. Unless it's vitally important that they be lego there's not much reason to drop the cash.

Buy off brand!

It's been like this for ages though, the eye of sauron, HP kits, anything licensed gets hit harder than a normal kit, same thing happens in the plamo community

😭

Not, jesus, Pokemon. ;)

GREED

that is nightmare fuel

Dollar Store has leftover Lego kits. Enjoy…

Yeah, I have the money but I just outright refuse. Insane. But fun fact, you can get many Nintendo-based "lego" sets on Ali Express and Temu. The most expensive is like $50 but they average in the 20-30 range. No, they're not LEGO, but they get the scratch itched.

You may get a reasonable return on the investment... depending on how many sets are sold and how many others have exactly the same plan.

Agree

idk why so many people still give their money to a company, which rise their prices while reducing bricks at the same time to satisfy their shareholders every year... Usually you get better and cheaper sets from BlueBrixx, COBI, CADA, Mega (e.g. Pokemon) and Mould King!

The ratio really isn't fine. There will always be expensive collector pieces but LEGO are just plastic bricks. I get licensing fees but there are tiny Spider-Man sets that are three minifigs and a small police car for $50. They have to be losing sales over pricing by now.

What a joke

I still have a couple of boxes with Lego. (around 60 years old) Must be worth at least 25K

I went to a Toy Fair at my local recreation centre, just popped in when my daughter was having her swim class. I expected stalls of toys new and vintage - yep! What I didn’t expect was the amount of middle aged men, inspecting action men and Barbies, Tin Can Alley, subbuteo & many more.Very serious!

those are to expensive for my liking, the eevee one is a good price though but that is about it

Plastic is expensive. And yes, Lego knows psychologically what they are doing...wahahahaha! 💰 🤑 And the consumers 💸.

It’s the one factor that destroyed 00’s-10’s pop culture— Fan Gentrification: Horror Comic books Video games TV Cartoons Star Wars Harry Potter Anything else that attracts aging gatekeeper “connoisseur” fans who want to refine their childhood fandoms by refusing to appeal to new mainstream fans.

that's a lot to pay for kanto slop, call me when they have a delphox

Adults have become mug punters.

And that's only mid-priced.

Did anyone want these over like, Lego sets of iconic locations from the pokemon games instead...

Good thing Mega Construx already has a very affordable line of Pokemon brick sets. And honestly most of them look better imo.

if its not cubic like minecraft, it isnt real lego

???????????????????

i get that lego has absurdly high standards when it comes to quality control but holy shit bro

At these plastic prices I buy eppendorf lo-bind.

Yet another childhood icon turning it's back on children

My first reaction was "this is a sesame street character on crack"

The Nintendo effect

My family loves Lego. I got the Lego game boy ($60) for Christmas and my kids got a cute Bluey set ($30). I think for the high quality those are fair prices. We also found a solution to the $100+ super big/expensive sets. We just don’t buy them and then it doesn’t really hurt us if others do. 🤷‍♂️

Have heard a lot of good about BrickIt (build with what you have) and Lego Builder (get manuals) apps and ordering any missing pieces individually