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[–] betterdeadthanreddit 51 points 5 months ago (2 children)

They do list an age range of 4 to 99 so he's well within normal limits.

[–] ours 11 points 5 months ago

And Lego fans/dads know there's a king's ransom worth of Lego in that picture.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Dude, there's no way he will even be able to eat all those 3000 sets before turning 99

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago (4 children)

The product is known as LEGO. The plural is not LEGOs.

The boxes contained multiple pieces of LEGO.

A shipment of glass does not contain glasses. It contains multiple pieces or sheets of glass.

[–] RGB3x3 96 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I'm going to call it LEGOs even harder now.

[–] Hellnikko 19 points 5 months ago

LEGO my LEGOS!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

I'm going to assume that you used the grammatical nightmare "I'm going to call it LEGOs..." just to annoy me.

I want you to know that you doing that has made me incredibly aroused.

[–] owatnext 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Yes, I read it in her voice after writing it

[–] Xanis 8 points 5 months ago

Oho well in that case I hope you step on some LEGOs tonight. ;)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I want you to know that you doing that has made me incredibly aroused.

😳

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[–] Chainweasel 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

Language evolves. Incorrect pronunciation, punctuation, and pluralization can become "correct" through popular usage.

[–] partial_accumen 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Lego is a registered trademark. Legos isn't.

Thats the real reason for the language push.

[–] Pfeffy 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What do you think would happen if you tried to sell "Legos"?

Do you think Lego would agree with you then?

[–] partial_accumen 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You're diving into Intellectual Property law here, and there's lots of nuance beyond just registered trademarks.

You could likely be fine selling a round pastry filled with apples call "LEGOS". If there was a trademark for it at one time, and it has been abandoned, you might even be able to register the trademark yourself for your round pastries.

[–] Cort 1 points 5 months ago

Or try to argue genericide, and get their trademark invalidated.

[–] Num10ck 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

time for them to register Legos then, instead of trying to fight global linguistic trends

[–] partial_accumen 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I seem to remember a legal decision that prevented them from doing so (a horse leaving the barn type situation), so I don't think its possible. Lego is hardcore about the "lego" trademark though:

[–] Theharpyeagle 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What does "a horse leaving the barn" refer to?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I think they’re referencing the idiom “closing the barn door after the horse has bolted”, ie taking a measure after it’s too late to accomplish anything.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Exactly! Just like we eat a bowl of popcorns or a plate of rices or pastas with beefs or porks, maybe with a nice glass of wines, teas or milks. After that we can go to the beach to play in the sands or if it's winter we stay in and watch the snows.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Shrimps is perfectly acceptable and correct, so watchout, any of those examples could happen....

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[–] Cornpop 3 points 5 months ago

I love legoS

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Oh yeah then why do my glasses have two pieces of ~~polycarbonate~~ lenses

[–] FlyingSquid 18 points 5 months ago (4 children)

over 2,800 boxes of LEGO sets, each ranging in price from $20 to $1,000.

Not to be reductive and at the risk of pissing off Lego fans, how much could those $1000 sets cost Lego to make? We're talking about plastic bricks that must cost a fraction of a cent per brick.

Legos are very cool but they seem ridiculously overpriced to me. Especially now that they're getting fans to design things, so they can't even claim any sort of R&D going into it.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 months ago (11 children)

I'm not going to disagree they're overpriced, especially the bigger collector sets, but they are built to insanely perfect tolerances and that's never cheap. Use any generic blocks and it's easy to see Lego manufacturing is on another level. In addition I've built countless sets and despite thousands of tiny pieces I've only had one piece missing, once. And customer support sent out that piece immediately, no questions asked.

I believe much of the cost comes from the standards they hold themselves to.

[–] ours 11 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Bootleg Lego are the saddest thing. They have cool designs but the pieces not being built with the same precision makes them a shore to build. Assembled pieces just don't hold together and it becomes an unfun disaster.

Some things just need that level of insane precision and consistency to work well and comes at a cost.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Aka Bootlegos

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I tried to give other brands a chance, primarily because Lego doesn't dabble in war builds, but yeah I built a kit, picked it up to move it and half fell out because the bricks were not able to tightly clasp. I suppose it's less of a problem if you glue, but notably different experiences indeed.

[–] ours 4 points 5 months ago

My kid one a small set one. It was a cool Japanese anime robot but it was impossible to finish. The look of frustration and my own when I tried myself. I had to tell him to give up.

[–] pennomi 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That’s starting to not be true. Several of the brands out of China have better manufacturing quality than LEGO these days.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

I know we're way off original topic, but do you have personal experience with the chinese brands? Any specifically you'd recommend checking out?

[–] IamAnonymous 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

In addition to this - brand value and licensing costs or however they structure their deals with other companies.

[–] Graphy 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I jumped on the $500 Rivendell set and was more than happy to pay that. Before that one came out my brother and I always talked about how sad we were that we didn’t get the older LoTR sets

[–] Zahille7 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And the new Barad-Dur set looks amazing as well.

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[–] Khanzarate 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Estimates vary but seem to be between 5 and 10 cents per brick.

Lego definitely makes a profit, but they also haven't done the usual thing for a business to do, make the product cheaper to squeeze more out of it. In fact, one of the reasons to choose lego over another is the tight tolerances they have for their Legos, they fit better and hold better than a knockoff.

So like, yeah, business, they're trying to make money, but its not the clear-cut fake inflation thing going on, or even necessarily price gouging, as far as I could determine. Its more, this is what a quality product costs, they haven't cheaped out, but it just feels so prohibitively expensive because people aren't paid enough in general.

[–] pennomi 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That’s not exactly true, the manufacturing quality of LEGO has gone down in recent years after moving much of the manufacturing to China. For example, you’ll find more parts with ejection marks in them today than you used to.

Ironically there are a few good Chinese knockoff brands with superior quality now.

[–] GeneralEmergency 6 points 5 months ago

I remember seeing something that said that while the price of a Lego set has gone up. The actual price per brick hasn't.

There's also licensing that needs to be considered.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You do pay more because of the LEGO brand, and they rely a lot on nostalgia & fandom to charge that much.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

LEGOs

No such thing.

[–] xc2215x 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That is so much LEGO. Wow.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I had no idea Lego made Barad-dur. And for the low price of $460.

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