One guy I use to work with would purchase 2 sets. One for his kid and the other for storage for when the kit is no longer sold and that happens.

Lego should use a Kickstarter-like model for out of print sets. Give people a chance to pre-order, and when they hit enough orders to make it with it, manufacturer and send out the sets.

edit: looks like I forgot how to language—leaving it how it is—y’all get the point

"Free local pickup"

Like ... Opposed to paid local pickup?

This is actually very the reason this is expensive though. All those children grew up and wanted the things from their childhood that are no longer made, so demand is high, price increase.

Heh I recently looked up Robotech figures thinking like Gundam gunpla type models, ended up seeing the old toys, damn I wish I could have bought more back then. Course not nearly the mark up for Lego.

I try not to look up all the random figures I used to own, Optimus Prime, Starfire transformers, so many gi joe ugh the amount that probably went to the landfill. Heck I used to have fun with this cobra plane (like an A10 I think), has one wing broken but I played with that thing so much.

I kept trying to fix the grammar but Lemmy connect keeps trying to highlight from the end of the text whenever I click somewhere...till now it seems but here now.

I though most all the set manuals are available online. Just scrape together the spare pieces or get them individually. Bet you it’ll be a lot cheaper than that.

I had that one. It was amazing.

Wow, I owned that exact set as a kid.

Stings a bit knowing I could have sold it for a down payment on a house 30 years later.

BrickLink 'new' average sold for the last 6 months is 340~ retail was 200. its a retired set of a beloved 80's set updated, so deff not going to find a new set for less than that. i have one in my collection, yeah i'd prob let go for 340+you cover shipping, but I'd definitely cover shipping for 19k! lol

and yes you to can list anything on ebay for whatever absurd price you want. but even ebay has a sold filter/tracker you should be checking..

EDIT: it early ok. i need my coffee. meme is talking about the OG set not the recent 2020 remake (they used the same box art/style), new yeah 1400ish still not 19k. and yeah 1400 for a 800+ NEW set from stone-age seems right, and the argument is still perfectly cromulent

The trauma of having grown up getting pirates, castles, and OG space sets for Christmas and birthdays, then finding out your mom gave them to the bratty neighbor kids while you were in college is real. I’ve reacquired some as an adult, which cost me about the same as my college tuition.

I got myself a mega blocks pirate ship, about 20 years ago, give or take. I still have it. All my kids and nices and nephews and now grandson has played with it (and trashed the shit out of it, but meh) I still rig it up as a nightlight on top of my wardrobe. It still makes explosion noises with flashing lights, and launchable cannon balls. (I should probably check those batteries...) Doesn't look like mega blocks, looks like a ghost / ghoul type pirate ship model. Came with treasure, a heap of peg leg pirates, and a giant killer octopus. I still have the octopus. One of my top favourite possessions.

ruining various subcultures of hobby collecting has really become a hobby for the unhealthy-wealthy

I saw it in a local store for about $200. You could take it apart and rebuild it. There are also a lot of companies making really cool plastic brick stuff.

I wish I had the space and money to buy some of the bionicle sets I never got to have, like the bohrok, and the piraka

Unfortunately bionicle sets are ungodly expensive and I do not have space to hold them all lol

Since they lost the patent there are a lot of more afordable lego options. If you want this set specific there are apps that tell you all the bricks you need and you can order bulk from china or something.

Of couse original Lego is awesome but some out of line sets are impossible for the regular person. Even some that are still sold by lego can be impossible. So don't go into debt to by a lego set.

I had one big spaceship, a big blue one from the old school space series. I looked it up and it's like $2,000 something dollars now. I don't remember if I had the pirate ship in the OP. I had a bunch of them though.

i still have all my old lego. not the instructions tho. or the ones my dog chewed up. damn dog.

bought that bundle of roses set, made it with the wife for valentimes. that was a great date.

This is why I love videogames instead.

Wait, those few plastic bricks cost a whopping 110$?

No amount of money will buy new Micronauts to match the beloved ones from my childhood my Mom threw out when I went to College (WHAT WERE YOU THINKING MA?!)

The originals are now faded and cracked and even those are expensive