Mildly Interesting

This is really cool but all I can think of is how as a kid I was never able to have any of the big, exciting Lego sets. It was always so disappointing to love Lego and see all the things I’d never get to play with.

Samies. Their catalogues were like porn mags for younger me, and I only managed to get one single pricier set of Bionicles after a long time collecting pocket money. It did frustrate me, but at the same time I was conditioned to endlessly reconfigure what I had and sometimes reverse engineer build ideas I saw in these ads, so, probably, I got more quality time for my buck than if I could got every set I wanted. Is that copium? Def smells like it, lol.

Things are getting so out of hand that kids can’t even play with toys anymore.

I understand what you're getting at, but these lines of Lego toys are specifically designed as being "for adults". So the price tag is not for a children's toy. Once Lego found out that they can charge a shitton more money to make sets for adults, they started doing so.

This and items like this are not marketed for kids. This is also not purely marketed for eletist cashgrabs. Ifyou are a real lego enthousiast, a thousand dollars might be achievable. There are also other arrangements, like renting the piece.

These adult Lego sets already have wild prices. But when an IP is involved, they are trying to charge so much for it because some people are absolutely rabid for Star Wars. Some of the die hard fans will unfortunately buy this at ludicrous pricing like that.

Compared to prices and complexities of similar sets, this is on par. This bonsai tree is more expensive per piece, but you could buy a dozen for the price of this new Death Star.

If you don't like little trees though, then you wouldn't buy that. Same for not liking olives, you probably wouldn't want a Greek salad. That doesn't make those things disgusting, nor unfortunate that they are being sold. It's just not for you, and that's okay.

I paid $250 for a motorcycle that still sits in a box on my shelf. Lego is printing money off adults.

Yeah. A lot of licensing I imagine, but at that price I would at least expect a hemisphere. And even then, it's not exactly a typewriter.

In fairness those are 11,000 1x1 plates. I was shocked at the $1k price tag and wouldn't buy this set but it's actually on the cheaper side of $0.10/brick compared to the rest of their Star Wars sets.

You are comparing apples and oranges. The €250 set with 11k pieces consists of 99% 1x1 tiles. Yes, this death star is ridiculous, but your comparison is too.

You’re paying the Disney tax on the Death Star. Also price by weight is a better judge of cost. There is actually an article that covers both.

https://bricknerd.com/home/how-much-extra-do-we-pay-for-licensed-sets-8-24-2023

They're paying for the Star Wars IP.

Yeah i saw half a deathstar and then boom popup. Now I won't see the rest and I'm the target audience I feel

I have the super star destroyer my wife bought me for my 30th birthday and I've wanted a deathstar for a long time.

Can they feel… other things?

That's no moon...