[FirmwareBurner]

>There is a reason they show it with an adult in the picture and not with a child. Adults spend crazy amounts of money on Lego.

Here here. Lego prices today on some sets are just out of whack compared to how they were in my childhood. It feels like Lego's biggest market is now grown men with disposable income who buy overpriced sets for themselves because nostalgia. A guy form a former workplace has a room just for his Lego (no kids).

I think they could go even higher than $200 and it would still sell the same.

[zirgs]

Lego was expensive during my childhood as well. There's a reason why there were lots of Lego knock-off brick sets that weren't fully compatible (similar size, but wrong tolerances - so they didn't stick together very well) with actual Lego bricks. But adults who bought those sets for their kids didn't know better.

[ant6n]

Nowadays, the cheap knock offs are so good that you’re basically only getting the Lego for the name. I was impressed when my wife got one for the kid, but also I somehow don’t want them to mix with the „real“ ones, it’ll be hard to separate them later.

[zirgs]

But are they compatible with "real" bricks?

[ant6n]

Yes. Hard to distinguish except for the trademark on the nobs.

[clintonb]

LEGO sets are generally priced around $0.10 per piece. I've anecdotally noticed this for the past 10 years.

Data shows prices have probably decreased since you were born (assuming you're over 25 years old): https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/15flwte/is....

[FirmwareBurner]

>Data shows prices have probably decreased since you were born

Then I was mistaken. Apologies.