Re:Lego breaks ground on first US manufacturing facility
by stef25 on Monday April 24, 2023 @06:53AM
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FWIW with some of the bigger sets they seemed to make it needlessly complex and tedious. You have to assemble little pointless pieces together that they could have easily delivered as one piece. If they really do charge per piece then it makes sense to me now.
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Re:Lego breaks ground on first US manufacturing facility
by vidarh on Monday April 24, 2023 @08:57AM
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They don't charge per piece. The price per piece is calculated backwards from the sets and number of pieces. Of course it correlates, but the price per piece varies significantly based on the size etc. of the pieces.
But LEGO has always favoured pieces that even when they look very specific usually have a significant level of reusability in other contexts. Hence "pointless" pieces that aren't actually pointless because their appearance is sufficiently generic.