Two arrested, including 71-year-old man, for allegedly stealing almost 3,000 boxes of LEGOs
Two arrested, including 71-year-old man, for allegedly stealing almost 3,000 boxes of LEGOs
They do list an age range of 4 to 99 so he's well within normal limits.
And Lego fans/dads know there's a king's ransom worth of Lego in that picture.
Dude, there's no way he will even be able to eat all those 3000 sets before turning 99
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.
In addition to this - brand value and licensing costs or however they structure their deals with other companies.
But don't they hold themselves to the same standards for smaller sets and use the same machines to make them?
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.
I remember seeing something that said that while the price of a Lego set has gone up. The actual price per brick hasn't.
There's also licensing that needs to be considered.
You do pay more because of the LEGO brand, and they rely a lot on nostalgia & fandom to charge that much.
I had no idea Lego made Barad-dur. And for the low price of $460.
What's that like $100 worth of plastic? How is this news?
Each box is easily worth 1-2 hundred. On the low side. They’re legos. and some of those sets are the limited-time only sets
The falcon sets are all 500+, if I’m reading the thumbnail right (paywall, erg.)
If we assume 100 per, that’s still 300k in value. “It’s just plastic”… might be a legitimate reason to not buy the sets, but c’mon. You wouldn’t knock collecting art (“it’s just canvas and paint.”)
Are you comparing mass-produced plastic machine made pieces to art? I will absolutely agree that you can make art with them, but at the end of the day we're talking about plastic trash injected into a mold. If you want to get me to somehow defend a company that sell s plastic waste for a massive premium, it just isn't going to happen.
Same like a 3k LV bag is 150 bucks of leather. Or a 100 dollar bill is a few cents of paper.
Agree on the bag. Disagree on the currency. If Legos were used as currency then it would be totally logical if still completely stupid. Even then, there's human labor involved in making a quality bag, but every Lego brick is exactly the same and made by a machine out of a penny's worth of plastic.
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 call it LEGOs even harder now.
LEGO my LEGOS!
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.
I am going to date LEGOs.
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.
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.
Says every American who has to have it [simplified]
Lol
I love legoS
Oh yeah then why do my glasses have two pieces of
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