Thread 11523333

The first mass produced $1000(ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS) Lego set. Will this set the stage to become the new normal? Is this the future of toys?
What's the most money you ever paid(or would be willing to pay) for a toy?

>>11523333 (OP)
>are increasing prices the future of toys?
Where have you been anon of course toys are going to keep getting more and more expensive. I don't really understand the sudden outrage over this desu I mean they've been doing sets from $700-900 which was already unreasonable. For those willing to pay those prices, what’s a couple hundred more?

>>11523338
>toys are going to keep getting more and more expensive
only for the branded license shit for drooling retarded onions boys

>>11523338
>Where have you been anon of course toys are going to keep getting more and more expensive
The average person can't keep up. Toys are becoming luxury items for rich folk

>>11523344
Soon being homeless and living in a cardboard box will also become a luxury

Humanity is doomed

its a really big toy, what did you expect?

>>11523423
It should have never existed in the first place

>>11523333 (OP)
>What's the most money you ever paid(or would be willing to pay) for a toy?
Ironically, $400 for the old Lego Death Star.

>>11523460
>$400
I thought it was $500?

>>11523333 (OP)
Lego is one step above Funko Pops, and those fags will pay any price.

>>11523447
>I can't afford it so you shouldn't be allowed to have it
it's crazy just how pervasive and influential this mindset is these days. We used to call it envy, and it wasn't a good thing

>>11523643
>I can throw away money, this means that it's ok for me to do it thereby making things more expensive for the average consumer

You're the reason why rent is higher than ever. It's a fucking toy, if I wanted to pay 1k for something I'd buy a luxury watch. If dumbasses like you justify paying whatever companies want to charge for shitty products, they'll keep raising the prices until no one buys them and then the company implodes on itself. kys

>>11523468
The 2016 re-release version was $500.

The original 2008 set was $400

>>11523671
>strawman
notice how you compare it to rent, a necessity. you expose your consumerist brainrot, you treat it as an inevitability that you WILL buy it sooner or later, which is why the price burns you up so much. You KNOW you'll buy it, no matter the price, so you get angry over how much money you're going to lose. Zero impulse control, like a trained seal.
Meanwhile, I'm not gonna buy it. so it can cost a thousand dollars or a hundred-thousand and it makes no difference, because precisely zero of it will be coming out of my wallet regardless.

Since it's half a sphere, is it safe to assume that retards will spend $2K to buy this set twice and combine them?

>>11523682
Never mind, it's an apartment complex

At what point do they just fuck off the ""cheaper"" sets and just commit to having Star Wars be another podcast background decoration theme and stop pretending it's a kids toy?

>>11523333 (OP)
Where is the value?

>>11523333 (OP)
>9000 pieces
I bet 3000 of them are fucking small ass tiles.

>>11523711
The brand™

>>11523333 (OP)
C'mon bro! Look! They're even throwing in Grand Supreme advisor Fartdik Slapnutz! Remember him? He's an EXTREMELY important character who some of you REAL fans might remember made a very small, one panel appearance in the original Marvel comics run. He was responsible for picking out the color of Emperor Palpatine's chair! Can you even imagine watching episode VI with seeing emperor Palpatine's iconic chair!? No but in all seriousness this guy is probably gonna go for like $200 on bricklink....

>>11524030
It's hilarious how badly they're cheaping out on the figs in a 1000 dollar set. I'm not even the kind of person who spazzes out about dumb shit like waistskirts and dual-molded legs (personally I think those legs usually look stupid) but I'm completely unimpressed by the quantity and selection of figs. The set has what, 38 figures? Really not a lot when you consider the overall price. Considering how all-out this set should be, a couple extra pieces of plastic shouldn't be much to ask for. There should've been enough troopers and officers to fill out the landing pad. And there should've been several of those glub shitto imperial advisors rather than just one. This thing really should be packed to the gills with content.

>What's the most money you ever paid(or would be willing to pay) for a toy?

Believe it or not this

The last MP prime is about the same asking price as this, but I said no way in hell for that (who cares about the trailer) and ended up with a KO

But this guy I say it it Worth it for getting 7 figure.

I can only pray they won't fuck up the QC

>>11524053
Isnt this that scam haslab shit?
If released at retail would be no more than $150 but hasbro being lying greedy jews say that stores wouldn't stock it, that you need to pay a kickstarter for it then pay over $500-800 for a product which probably only cost them $20 to make

Hasbro charge over 130 for ss86 prime.
A ko company releases the same item for 25 and it comes with improvements

It's just fucking greed

you can get a pretty good 3D printer and materials for 1000 bux

>>11523333 (OP)
literally this scene from Squid Game

>>11524030
what;s your point? did they miss any important characters? why not throw in the glup shittos?

>>11524030
congrats, Lego.
you have successfully discovered how to sell tiny plastic figures for HUNDREDS of dollars each.

Lego owns Bricklink, and the conspiracy theory says they hustle pieces out of the Mexico factor themselves, as invisible random vendors.

you get excited, and thankful even, that you can score the one Gulp Shitto for "only" $75!!! far better than a full $1000!

but you still spent $75 (or more) on a little plastic figure. they also sell those in boxes for $5 each

the only reason this Death Star doesn't have 50 Stormtroopers is to maintain the illusion that the minifigs are worth more than the rest of the plastic.

>>11524053

Same here. Almost caved and spent 500 on Unicron, but talked myself out of it.

>>11524056
>Hasbro charge over 130 for ss86 prime.
He's 90. If you paid more than that its because you bought it from someone who overcharged.

>>11523671
you're an idiot. this is regular lego pricing. nobody is raising the prices here.

>>11523333 (OP)
How big is it when assembled?

>>11524970
Leaks said 70cm width 79cm length 27cm depth

would've been kino if they just kept releasing those small diorama sets of the death star scenes individually, but made them modular so they could be hooked together

>>11523688
the playset is more complete than this for half the price. what the fuck are they thinking?

>>11523678
How did they manage actual sphere shaped Death Stars for half the price?

>>11524980
the entire thing is tiled off with a million 1x1 tile pieces. This increases the part count considerably. That will be 999.99 + tip

>>11523333 (OP)
>adults are gonna buy literal dollhouse just because it’s in a black box and it says 18+ on it

>>11524976
They are doing this for the Potter Hogwarts castle

>>11525356
That's a great example, also of course the lego city modulars are this concept from the very start. Star Wars gets absolutely shafted when it comes to actual buildings or locations

>>11524975
oh baby yes

>What's the most money you ever paid(or would be willing to pay) for a toy?
I paid around $620 for this 1:12 model by Kyosho back in February. But you must consider that I paid for it in our local currency (RUB), if you convert right now it would be ~$760.

And there's that Amalgam 1:8 Countach out there that would cost around $20k. Gotta work hard I guess.

>>11524980
>"It's going to look great on a wall"

>>11527659
What's the appeal. I wouldn't spend $10 on this

>>11527693
Well it is.

>>11524285
I remember when it seemed like the teeth weren't the same color.

a lot of the time prices go up, but would like to know if there is a good reason for it.
Would like to like some transparency on the cost of production.
Oh, so If you stop selling a toy for 20 dollars and now you sell it for 40, is because production cost is that much higher?
or you just want a bigger profit because some people are willing to pay?

>>11523688
HOLY SHIT HAHAHA

>a fuckin slice
>1000(one thousand) dollars for a fucking slice XD

>>11523688
Sphere? What do you need half-sphere for? I'm giving you slice.

>>11524053
This is worth 300 bucks to you? There are core classes that look better than this, and probably pose better too

>>11523333 (OP)
How do they even justify this to customers? There is nothing there that would bump the cost to that ridiculius price.

>>11528535
<-.This was $800 and sold like crazy. The Death Star will cost $1000 because people will buy it

>>11523333 (OP)
Definition of quantity over quality. Its got the imperial board room!...but its the size of a kitchen table. Its got the emperor's throne room! but its a gimped version of the diorama set previously released. It's got the trash compactor! its so narrow your only option is portraying it as the moment they're about to get crushed

>>11523333 (OP)
Why the fuck is Vader's chamber there? That shit wasnt even on the death star

Holy fuck, what are these prices? I'll admit I'm long since removed from the hobby since I haven't bought Lego sets since the 90's and super early 2000s where a given range's largest set was $80-90, but still that's still beyond absurd.

>>11528647
But muh exclusive minis!

>>11528744
Why wouldn't such a high ranking guy have his own room with a relax chamber in the gigantic Death Star? The emperor had a throne room in there too, there's enough space for the head honchos to have their own homes in there.

>>11528647
But... that's a millenium falcon

This shit >>11523333 (OP) ain't no fucking death star.

>>11528897
Both are shit.

>>11523688
LMAO WHAT DE FUCK

>>11528862
Even though Vader didn't care about the Death Star he sure can have a meditation room aboard it. But why not remove non screen accurate stuff to make more space for a better version of something we did see on screen? Make the meeting room bigger, or the comm room. Why is a stupid fucking elevator taking up a huge chunk of the retail space? The set is plagued with bad choices.

>>11529033
>Why is a stupid fucking elevator taking up a huge chunk of the retail space?
Because it's a dollhouse, and dollhouses have to have elevators.

>>11523333 (OP)
Grim

>>11527659
Very based and tasteful rusanon

>>11523671
>they'll keep raising the prices until no one buys them and then the company implodes on itself. kys
And this is a problem how? If a business makes shitty decisions it should go under to make space for others.

inflation, get used to it

>>11527659
Oh shit. I had that exact RC Countach. I never put the stickers on it though.
It was really fucking fast (for the time) and there weren't many places in my neighborhood I could drive it. I often had to take it to an indoor basketball court in order to enjoy it.

>>11528862
From the way the officers reacting to Vader's present-

An unwanted guest from the emperor that is not on official emperor business on the death star

It's very unlikely that DS1 would have a chamber especially for Vader
DS1 is takrin' operation

Personally speaking I really think they should skip all the non DS1 stuff so they can build the set into a proper half sphere and have the diorama being bigger

There is no reason to have the emperor's room when that size of space should be the brief room and the hanger not come with a simple falcon

>>11528535
apparently it has a minifig that's exclusive ONLY to this set. it's basically a 1000 dollar minifigure with the Death Star as a freebie.

Lego is gonna go through some pretty rough times next year.
The toxic popularity of pokemon is going to consume a large portion of legos production and distribution time.
All other sets will suffers.
Everything will only be available on the secondary market for 2x msrp after a while.
The money bros will set their sights on lego with Pokemon but will soon migrate to all lego.
Its about to get really really bad, buy your sets now, they will be forever out of your price range in a few short months.
Screen capture this.

>>11523688
Mousecucks don't deserve better. They crave the cuckening. If you gave them a quality product they'd be disappointed at the lack of sexual frisson from humiliating themselves.

>>11528647
Oh, please. Don't call them people.

>>11537968
>Mousecucks don't deserve better. They crave the cuckening. If you gave them a quality product they'd be disappointed at the lack of sexual frisson from humiliating themselves.
What the fuck are you talking about it’s just another overpriced shitty Lego set

is this thread just full of tourists and dumbasses?? it's a 9000+ piece set. lego is usually around ten cents a brick. this isn't absurd at all. you could buy one hundred $10 sets and end up with the same amount of pieces. i swear everyone on this board is a fucking moron with no toys who just likes to complain.

>>11538092
>you could buy one hundred $10 sets and end up with the same amount of pieces
along with 100-200 figures instead of 38

>>11538092
>it's a 9000+ piece set.
yeah most of it grey squares

>>11538092
>it's a 9000+ piece set.
That also looks like shit
But hey, at least the 40-something soi wars fanboys who still cling onto that dying franchise will get another gray dust collector to put onto their shelves in their epic reddit bacon mancaves

Burger is better

>>11538384
>epic reddit bacon mancaves
Because buying original licenses at the age of 40 is totally not manchild-coded. Lego should have never catered to adults.

>>11523333 (OP)
yfw I purchase 10 and make an complete death star

>>11538467
Are u elon munks?

>>11538118
> cares about the figures more than the bricks
tourist and fake lego fan

>>11523333 (OP)
Don't forget if you don't buy it day one waiting for a discount you will permanently miss out on this epic limited stock offer

I feel like this set was always going to be ass. All lego death stars look like fucking shit. The only good soẏ wars set for me this year was the slave 1. And they couldn't even call it that because nuDisney. Is there anyone making a name placard with the correct name?

Wait it's not just flat right? tell me it's at least got the round exterior on the other side

>>11538549
I'm a little chunky if that's what your asking

>>11538712
why would it? The only side that'll be facing you is the diorama

>>11538712
Refer to >>11523688

It's a disc

>>11538712
its a death slab. Lego designers think of the shelf destination of the big not play sets. it needs to be able to sit flat against a wall on a shelf until the end of days in a soẏ cave.

>death star slice
holy fuck for that price it should be half-a-death star and then they can double dip selling the other half

>>11538418
>Because buying original licenses at the age of 40 is totally not manchild-coded.
Correct, it takes a real man to pick a ninjago or monkie kid playset over a soi wars shelf queen like an insecure teenager coping over still liking lego at the of 15.

>>11538092
True, they should also make a 1,000,000 piece set for $100,000. It's 10c per piece so there's nothing wrong with it at all.

>>11538686
i hate these games, i have not purchased stuff from lego because of this, i wrote them to complain but nobody seemed to care