Lego has changed since we were kids (2014)

Re:Lego has changed since we were kids (2014) by ysamjo on Monday February 07, 2022 @11:34AM (#30247134)

Lego really dialed the monopoly rent to 11. I wonder what the material cost for a 2,000 pieces set really is? After all it's a bunch of formed plastic pellets. My journey and a product idea: https://medium.com/hyperlinked/whats-missing-creator-platfor...

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Re:Lego has changed since we were kids (2014) by tills13 on Monday February 07, 2022 @11:56AM (#30247508)

Seems like you're missing the part where they have to pay someone (or more accurately, entire teams of people) a lot of money to actually come up with the set idea and instructions.

Boiling LEGO down to just "a bunch of formed plastic" is criminal.

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Re:Lego has changed since we were kids (2014) by ysamjo on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @07:02AM (#30271680)

Please read the article before you write a comment.

I explicitly said in it that LEGO is successful because of the combination of instructions and plastic.

I further argue that you could unlock value by unbundle the two. If you have salary data on LEGO designers please share. In the meantime I assume a good model designer would make more in the described platform model. (Comparable to a newspaper journalist going solo with Substack.)

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