• Aggravationstation@feddit.uk
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    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.

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    23 days ago

    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.

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      23 days ago

      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.

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        23 days ago

        In addition to this - brand value and licensing costs or however they structure their deals with other companies.

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        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.