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There’s a little inflation, but most of the cost increase is increased piece count and wider variety of parts and colors. The modern models are more detailed and better looking. But the sets come in a variety of scales/sizes, so it’s not always apples to apples.

Accounting for inflation, I think prices have actually come down. I remember around 30 years ago sets went for around ten cents per piece, so a 500 piece set would be $50, and that was $50 in 1990 money which is around $100 in 2021. 345 pieces for $30 is right in line with that pricing.

The lockdown and pandemic made Lego sales skyrocket. On their own website, numerous larger sets are sold out and on backorder. Lego has profited immensely off this, but even when I was a kid, that shit was really spendy.

High-quality plastic is expensive.

They have quite a bit, but they are also really well designed these days. I got back into LEGO during the pandemic and really many of the big sets have always been expensive. My ex-wife had all the big star wars sets (x-wing, bust of darth maul) in college and she paid 300-400 a set at the time. The small sets have…

I bought that set for my son and I to put together and it was great. I also bought a discontinued bird set (robin, blue jay, humming) that was very similar and really cool once put together.

They’ve been roughly 10 cents per piece for a while.

I’m sure they are slowly rising because of inflation, but apart from that I’d say the Lego prices have been quite stable for years. Most licensed sets hover around the 10 cents per piece price point, while most of their own IPs are below that. This has been quite consistent for as long as I’ve gotten back into Lego,…

I’ve been buying Lego, either for myself or my son, for the last 7 or 8 years and I can honestly say they have ALWAYS been expensive, at least in modern times. The sets in this article are actually a good value (not great) compared to other sets, especially given the licenses. The main driver of Lego cost are piece…

Lego prices tend to be about $.10/piece, so a 345pc set for $30 is very much in that ballpark, as is 565 pieces for $60. Licensed sets do skew a little higher (there’s a notorious ‘Disney Tax’ for Lego’s Disney and Star Wars sets [though not so much Marvel, that I’ve noticed]), but on the whole, $.10/piece is a…

Seems like it. When I was a kid, the first round of Star Wars lego sets were on the market and I remember something like the Naboo Starfighter costing $15-20 or thereabouts. The smaller Batmobile set looks to be around the same size, but costs $30. Maybe inflation plays a part?

I used to buy Legos for my boys once a month. Over the past 10 years, the prices have gone up so much we are lucky if we get to buy something once a year now. We haven’t bought Legos regularly for the past 5 years.

TDKR is the best comic adaptation ever made, animated or live action.  It is pitch perfect, the thing every other adaptation should strive for.  I re-watch it at least once every few months.  

But the bigger issue for me is that the movie appears to be mostly made up of scenes of Amanda Seyfried

TDKR tried to copy Frank Miller’s art style, so maybe this one will replicate Tim Sale’s.

See the hollywood Reporter article. It's going in a different direction than the comic but looks stunning, so far.

Generally speaking, I don’t have an issue with believers being in office (even though I’m not one), and it seems like most of them - both in terms of religion/denomination and at an individual level - understand and respect the Constitution’s clear anti-theocracy stance.

Not like a gila monster, that bumpy head. Gila monsters (and what kind of a pejorative name is that? really) have osteoderms - bony-cored scales that seem to become fused to the surface of the skull as the lizard ages. No evidence of this sort of thing in abelisaurs.