Re:How Lego builds a new Lego set
by Markoff on Sunday March 15, 2026 @01:56AM
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Lego reminds me of Wikipedia, they lost the focus on their main goal
Wikimedia will claim they need more money to finance Wikipedia, but the reality is they use only minority of their income to actually run same manage the website everyone is interested unlike their other expenses
Lego is similar, they get into so many areas besides building blocks for kids to support their creativity and increase prices so much under pretense reasons, while you can buy same/better compatible bricks in China for 1/10th of the price, so it's clearly only the marketing, heck they don't need even to develop anything, people with alternate builds do it for them
Wikimedia will claim they need more money to finance Wikipedia, but the reality is they use only minority of their income to actually run same manage the website everyone is interested unlike their other expenses
Lego is similar, they get into so many areas besides building blocks for kids to support their creativity and increase prices so much under pretense reasons, while you can buy same/better compatible bricks in China for 1/10th of the price, so it's clearly only the marketing, heck they don't need even to develop anything, people with alternate builds do it for them
related video from Fern - Why everyone hates Lego now https://youtube.com/watch?v=dSgwNvydXhI