Re:Lego price per part over the years – Brick Insights
by seanvelasco on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @01:46AM
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What happened with Legos? They used to be simple. Harry Potter Legos, Star Wars Legos, complicated kits, tiny little blocks. I’m not saying it's bad. I just wanna know what happened.
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Re:Lego price per part over the years – Brick Insights
by crooked-v on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @01:55AM
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Extremely profitable licensing happened. They're much better these days at making everything reusable than they used to be, though, and it's rare for anything beyond prints/stickers to be set-specific. Even prop pieces like Harry Potter wands or Star Wars blasters regularly get reused in unrelated sets as part of the bric-a-brac.
Re:Lego price per part over the years – Brick Insights
by micheljansen on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @04:40AM
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Their patents have expired, so now anyone can make the simple kits and compete with LEGO. LEGO avoided this by building lots of exclusive IP partnerships: https://iposinternational.com/resources/articles/the-buildin...