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Iron Giant - BuildBetterBricks (buildbetterbricks.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/lego

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Seems to be ~50% more expensive than official Lego sets (cost per Lego piece), it's not terribly too much considering it's kind of 3rd party custom stuff

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

You are also paying for the seller to buy the LEGO bricks and resell them, there has to be a mark up of some kind.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Seems to be ~50% more expensive than official Lego sets (cost per Lego piece),

I think you missed the 3 on 350%, to make a 45c/pc cost or 4.5x . We could argue inflation takes the base to 20c/pc but then that's still a 2.25x markup.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

$250/818pc= $0.31/pc but yeah looks like 50% markup is a bit off. Comparing to this xwing set at similar set price $240/1953pc= $0.12/pc

That's 250% more than official sets which doesn't seem too ridiculous