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To say that LEGO is expensive is like saying that playing piano is expensive, arguing the new prices of a good study piano – when you can buy a nice-sounding and mechanically flawless 100-year-old study piano for 10% of that price.

It’s expensive if new, expensive if used and kept in collector’s condition rather than. as you normally see with toys. And I speak from experience.

A few years ago I already got my LEGO, and that was 3 crates full, including a complete and still functional gray-black train with extra rails, a pneumatic excavator, a large and small pirate ship, container transfer port, and various (complete with packaging and manual coming, and still assembled) Bionicles, and various kits from Model Team, sold for less than 300 euros. The collection has been on Marktplaats for weeks even though I paid for higher visibility, so I wouldn’t have asked a dump price for it either. You’re talking about a fraction of the replacement cost (comparable, but not identical sets that are now common) when it comes to material in pristine condition, because LEGO doesn’t really wear out under normal use.

Specific sets with unique blocks are in demand (for example, with those huge rubber tires you had in Technics sets in the early 80s and used by high-level LEGO model truck builders).

Stuff that comes complete with packaging and manual (all in good condition), and is sorted, saves money. Especially if, for example, there are also sticker sheets with decals included.

Parents (or adult children) who sell the contents of the toy barrel, even if it is complete and working e.g. the transformer and the rails, get a penny for it and this does not make LEGO an expensive toy, just like playing the piano expensive if you buy an old instrument.

[Reactie gewijzigd door Pianist1985 op 28 december 2021 19:54]

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