>>8793095>why cheap and simple sets stuck around.Going further back, compare to this vehicle set, which was about half the pieces and half the price of the '97 bank set. So for twice cost of pic related, you could get a (bigger) vehicle, two minifigs, AND a whole bank? The simple sets from the late '90s only look bad because we've come to expect more from Lego nowadays, but in 1997, this wasn't about laziness; it was about showing parents they could still get a lot of LEGO for their buck while cost and complexity increased elsewhere.
