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Is it really true that Lego has been able to keep a consistent price-per-part ratio throughout the years, and that you're therefore getting as good of a value on Lego nowadays as you have been in the last one or two decades? Because I've been looking through some older Creator sets on BrickSet and it's kind of baffling how almost every single one of them has a PPP well below the 0.10$ we've come to assume as the golden ratio in the past years.
Take the Big Rig (4953) for instance: it is an absolute monstrosity of a truck made with 550 pieces, probably having enough cab size to look on scale with the Technic Mack Anthem, and yet, it only costed 30 dollars? Or consider Underwater Exploration (4888), an excellent 623-piece package filled with multiple deep sea vehicles including a very generously sized and detailed submarine, which it costed 40 dollars? Or perhaps most outrageously, take the Transport Ferry (4997) in pic related, a massive set with 1279 pieces that easily stands to toes with some Star Wars UCS stuff in terms of sheer size, and yet, it only costed 70 dollars back in 2008?
What's going on here, /lg/? How can it be we are no longer seeing this value nowadays?
