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I'm sure that would sell. There is a reason they show it with an adult in the picture and not with a child. Adults spend crazy amounts of money on Lego.

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>There is a reason they show it with an adult in the picture and not with a child. Adults spend crazy amounts of money on Lego.

Here here. Lego prices today on some sets are just out of whack compared to how they were in my childhood. It feels like Lego's biggest market is now grown men with disposable income who buy overpriced sets for themselves because nostalgia. A guy form a former workplace has a room just for his Lego (no kids).

I think they could go even higher than $200 and it would still sell the same.

Lego was expensive during my childhood as well. There's a reason why there were lots of Lego knock-off brick sets that weren't fully compatible (similar size, but wrong tolerances - so they didn't stick together very well) with actual Lego bricks. But adults who bought those sets for their kids didn't know better.

Nowadays, the cheap knock offs are so good that you’re basically only getting the Lego for the name. I was impressed when my wife got one for the kid, but also I somehow don’t want them to mix with the „real“ ones, it’ll be hard to separate them later.

But are they compatible with "real" bricks?

Yes. Hard to distinguish except for the trademark on the nobs.

LEGO sets are generally priced around $0.10 per piece. I've anecdotally noticed this for the past 10 years.

Data shows prices have probably decreased since you were born (assuming you're over 25 years old): https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/15flwte/is....

>Data shows prices have probably decreased since you were born

Then I was mistaken. Apologies.

As an adult that loves LEGO sets with plenty of disposable income, I would not want a seven foot Lego model. The large sets look nice but a set that large would just be a hassle. Would you really want to waste the space of an entire table? The sweet spot seems to be Voltron size. Large enough that it takes time and looks imposing on a shelf. But it will not take up a full shelf and you can even display multiple models.

Sometimes I imagine setting up a LEGO storage wall plus desks, but that would be for building and not display.

Absolutely I have tons of Lego UCS, Modular City, and other model sets but 7ft scale is absolutely incompatible with my house. I have the UCS Falcon and Star Destroyer and those are just barely allowed to stay out of storage because the Falcon is on an angled 3rd-party display stand and the Star Destroyer found an unused corner to sit in.

I wouldn't have much of an issue with a 7ft long lego model, though the 3 foot wide delta wings would make it really, really hard to find a place to put it.

I think particularly the adult oriented sets really don't care about the scale. I guess most adult enthusiasts care more about the building process and display value than playing with mini figures.

Bingo. The competition are the model planes and cars my dad and uncle used to build with the kits from Michael's/MJ Designs. No need to worry about glue and using tweezers to attach tiny pieces.

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