>>11569546I'm not poor. Not by a long shot. By all accounts, I am LEGO's prime demographic right now. 35, male, 6-figure income at a nice white collar job, no other real hobbies to speak of. But these prices are still fucking insane to me.
>>11569603You see anon, your pic related is a fucking cool set. That set is worth the price, because it is a PLAYSET first and not a DISPLAY piece.
Compare this set to The Office set. Completely reasonable price for the thought, care, and design that went into it. So many cool details for fans of the show, designed as an actual playset first, so the custom figs are completely justified.
I want minifigs because my kids and I actually PLAY LEGOs together. We build my old sets I kept from the 80s and 90s. We build new things. These $500 black box sets that are meant to collect dust on a shelf are an affront to everything LEGO was founded on as a company and stands for.
It's not that I can't afford it. It's that I refuse to pay hundreds of fucking dollars for sets I don't even want just because they have a few pieces I do in them that I can't get anywhere else. And I'm continually amazed at people who do.
> LEGO can do whatever they want they don't owe you anything. And I can continue not buying them. They own Brinklink now so they've basically cornered the entire market and have a complete monopoly over their domain, so there's nothing else to do at this point than simply boycott.
I was at Target with my kids just yesterday and they wanted to look at the LEGOs, and who else do I see in the LEGO aisle with us? That's right, a 30-something dweep with his tranny "girlfriend". So yeah, this is the future you all chose.
