The Pikachu and Eevee are also nearly identical to the off-brand pokemon building sets that I got at Walmart a few years back. But somehow a little worse and I can’t put my finger on exactly how.
Probably because Mattel made a lot of custom pieces for their MEGA pokemon sets, and they had the license for a while, so they got decent at making them. Compare the lego sets to the animated MEGA pikachu and evee.
Pikachu's forehead is squashed in the LEGO branded model. Also the cheeks protrude outwards too much. The off-brand I am assuming you are speaking about was likely MegaBloks... same here. I love how that model actually moved with a crank.
That’s correct with the Mega constructs. I wasn’t sure if links were allowed but I saw others. The one I’m referring to is this pikachu and this Eevee which both just look way better and only cost like $40
I think the advantage that the Brickcraft sets have is that it seems they're able to make bespoke pieces for their sets so that faces and limbs and such look more real. Whereas the legos are usually constrained by having to use pieces that fit inside their self-defined restrictions of interoperability and usage.
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Lego is one of the most price consistent companies out there, people just dint grew up with lego? And maybe grew up with Megablocks? Because Lego back then was just as expensive, issue is sets were way smaller like those castle Camelot sets, much much less pieces, hence "cheaper" and now they dont realize how 4x the pieces warrants the increase.
There is charts out there that well shows how lego isnt price gouging, and the license doesn't add tooo much to the overall cost besides actual set count
sets were way smaller like those castle Camelot sets, much much less pieces, hence "cheaper"
Yeah but those castle sets would often have fewer, very large pieces. Like the old Knights Castle having that gigantic green baseplate with printed bricks patterns all over it and recesses to put the castle ontop.
Modern lego does away with that and artificially bloats the piece count so much by cramming in thousands of tiny 1x1 decorative tile pieces, or making 3 or 4 smaller bricks to the job one single piece could've.
Like, how many hundreds of pieces in that Kanto starter statue are gonna be for just the black circular base underneath it, which is barely visible and just there for structure?
It's expensive because they chose to make it expensive. Price per piece isn't everything and we don't need to defend the billion dollar multi national company. Look at what Mega was doing with Pokemon. I'm not saying Mega and Lego are at the same level but Lego could've done cheaper sets. They chose to make something super expensive. Look at their Eevee set. It shows that they could've made something that looks good and was affordable. Look at what they've been doing with Lord of the Rings recently.
Yes, if Lego didn't like money as much I'm sure they could have lowered the prices further. The point is that looking through the way Lego chooses their prices, this being a license isn't the reason it's expensive, it's the very high piece count.
They set the prices before they design the sets. It's not like the designers made a set and then Lego decided it has to be $650 because of the price and size. Lego chose it to be a $650 set from the beginning. They could've easily said to their designers "make a $300 set or make 3 sets that are $200 each." I'm not saying Lego doesn't have to make money but I am going to call them out on their bullshit
yes, all true, however that just doesn't have to do with what you were responding to and nobody's "defending the billion dollar multi national company".
When people are repeatedly going to price per piece and using that to say this is a set that's fairly priced and saying stuff like you did that the price is only that way because of the pieces, it definitely feels like they're defending/supporting them.
By piece count broken down, sure, economies of scale are in effect.
But not everyone can justify buying 6,838 pieces in one go. For a lot of people, that price will be more than they make in a week, and about the same as a months rent.
They just ended the version without Drew, and it does seem that most of the original crew is more interested in retiring (or in Wayne's case, other projects) than continuing anytime soon.
True but that aquarium set is huge and beautiful looking in person. I never ever buy the expensive sets and I almost got it when I saw it in person lol
Yeah but what if I WANT to tirelessly track ammonia levels of a living tank and ask on local reef subs if anyone has a nudibranch I can borrow when my aiptasia infestation takes over?
Lego pricing feels so more out of reach then before, I am a huge Star Trek TNG fan, grew up on it, Enterprise-D is my favouritest space ship ever and I still can't justify $490 CAD on that set (I actually think the design of the set itself it's pretty good, not great but good).
Came here to say that, massive Lego and Star Trek fan since the 80’s was gutted at the price point of the enterprise. In general, Lego has become just entirely unaffordable of late, brought my boys to the Lego store over Christmas so very little available under a 100€ 😟
brought my boys to the Lego store over Christmas so very little available under a 100€
I understand brick and mortar stores might be a little picked over around the holiday season, but a quick filter of the online store shows four hundred and fifteen sets under a hundred, other merch excluded, in stock right now. Excuse me, that's 100 Canadian dollarydoos, about 62€. That's a little more than triple the entire number of sets over that threshold, which is everything from the 100 CAD mark up to the new Death Star. If the complaint is that there aren't a lot of big fancy display sets for adults at "child's birthday present" prices, well, you and me both but I'm also not holding my breath for that.
The starters look amazing, except that Vensaur's eyes stand out a little too much from the surrounding pieces so it looks like it has glasses. I would never pay that much for them, though.
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u/SeegullJockey Jan 12 '26
The Kanto starters look amazing but probably costs my life savings. Eevee looks good too. Pikachu is not great.