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LEGO sets are not cheap toys. They are made to the highest standards and have the price to go along with it. However, in the past couple decades it seems that the price of LEGO sets has become outrageous. New sets can sell for up to $500 retail and old sets can sell for twice that in a secondary market. This is a children’s toy, right? There is no way LEGO sets have always been this expensive; it is just molded plastic. Let’s take a look at the history of LEGO pricing and try to figure out what is going on. LEGO is not a cheap toy and has never been.
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Luckily, I get to play with LEGOs for three hours a week without buying them..and they call it a "lab" (for my Intro to Robotics class...I almost said I get to play with them for free but then I remembered tuition...)
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The Lego Robotics curriculum resources are fantastic. We've been working on it with my daughter and it's fun. They do a great job introducing both mechanical and programming elements. Well worth the investment.
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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I LOVE Legos! I have approx. 30 lbs of them in a large bin, and about another 20 lbs in other storage containers. Yes, I have around 50 lbs of Legos.
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Quote: Many who received their first LEGO set in the early 1990’s are now adults looking forward to buying a LEGO set for their first child or for themselves. When we are younger, we do not fully understand how money works. We do not realize that a large LEGO set can require hours of work to earn. We only know what we want. I would wager that it isn’t until our first jobs that we can fully appreciate the value of money. We all wanted the large sets as kids and we didn’t realize how hard our parents had to work for them.
Most of the big lego sets I got between ~8 and 12 years old I paid for myself from a 'job' that paid maybe 50c/hour on a good day (for the few years after that I spent most of my pocket money on shareware cds and used pc games). At the time my dad was an auto mechanic and hauled all the worn/broken parts for scrap. Most of it was just iron and went strait from the garage to the recycling center; but anything with copper/aluminum was set aside because the pure metals sold for ~10x the price for mixed. Anything I was able to tear apart was mine to sell at the higher rate.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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