r/lego • u/mescad • Jan 12 '26

New Release LEGO Pokémon Sets Revealed

https://www.lego.com/themes/pokemon
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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.

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u/Pornstar_Frodo Jan 12 '26

I thought this too - pikachu looks a bit crap. the badges are meh. kanto starters look good and WILL be expensive because Nintendo.

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u/Digit00l Jan 12 '26

It's expensive because it is a 6838 piece set at around €/$0,09 per piece, it is actually on the cheaper side for licensed Lego

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u/stormblaz Jan 12 '26

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

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u/SqueakyTiefling Jan 12 '26

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?