Sticker SHOCK!

[Mickeyflower]

DBF & I are Big Bang Theory fans! So on Thursday's episode, Sheldon was building a Lego Death Star and DBF says "THAT is SOOO COOOOL I want one!" Right away I'm thinking I GOT HIS XMAS GIFT! He's a challenge to buy for! Tonight, I google it and They range in price from $400-$900!!!!!!!!!!
HOLY COW!!!! FOR LEGOS???? Maybe I'll get his the $30 3D 60 piece puzzle instead LOL

 

[SandrA9810]

They do look AWESOME in the store display (they have one at the Lego store at Disney). I'd love to build one myself, but I could never image how they can justify the cost of that thing. There's no way that amount of pieces can cost $500, even if they're specially made for the set.

 

[wtrmlnlabs]

I know! DS wants this thing terribly but that's way too much! He really only wants the guys, which I think it half that extravagant cost... those little lego guys are so darn expensive!

 

[Aliceacc]

You can find some decent K'nex in the $40-$100 range.

http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=11896469&searchURL=false

http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=4058338&searchURL=false

http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=10943181&searchURL=false

or, for more:
http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3739515&searchURL=false

Still not what Sheldon was building, but pretty cool!

 

[gracie1]

Wow!!! I am with you though, LOVE the Big Bang Theory!!!

 

[pigletto]

I Know!!! For LEGO!!! Remember the days where we got a bucket of legos for 20 dollars and built things from our imagination?! Even after the upfront cost I'd be running around trying to protect it and building it a glass case or something
Some of the bigger pieces of other sets are 100 dollars or more. My son would have to be seriously in to lego to get me to even pay that! I mean, they are fun and all.. but they are little blocks of PLASTIC. It astounds me.

 

[Cheshire Figment]

When I went to Legoland Florida last month I asked, in The Big Store (which has all Lego sets and loose Legos), what was their most expensive item. It is the Death Star, which has over 32,000 pieces and the retail price is $399. And with my "Plus Annual Pass" I could have gotten one for only $320 with my discount.

So anyone charging over $400 is a rip-off.

 

[Andrea from PA]

LOVE Big Bang!

And cost of Legos in no news to me.

 

[dawnball]

When I went to Legoland Florida last month I asked, in The Big Store (which has all Lego sets and loose Legos), what was their most expensive item. It is the Death Star, which has over 32,000 pieces and the retail price is $399. And with my "Plus Annual Pass" I could have gotten one for only $320 with my discount.

So anyone charging over $400 is a rip-off.

That's about 80 bricks/$1, which is actually a pretty good price. And they're likely to be 10% off at the Lego online store on Black Friday. Then again, I've mostly been price-stalking Lego train sets, and the per-piece cost on those is extraordinary.

 

[deva]

When I went to Legoland Florida last month I asked, in The Big Store (which has all Lego sets and loose Legos), what was their most expensive item. It is the Death Star, which has over 32,000 pieces and the retail price is $399.

According to the description on Amazon, it has 3,803 pieces in the pack.

 

[fakereadhed]

The real shock is that it's $399...and then you have to build it!!!

I loved to put together creations when I was a kid, but now they are all carefully built, complicated objects that will be dropped multiple times...and half the time I have to take most of it apart to figure out where to start with the instruction book. They aren't really for kids anymore.

Luckily, DS is obsessed mostly with minifigs.