Yeah I'm really not sold on it. My boy seems to like it and it's his bday in September so will most likely get a set

YOU CAN BUY SPECIAL PACKS WHERE MARIO GETS AN OUTFIT INCLUDING A SPECIAL HAT.

Just before I get the amiibo gang in here -

Yep, majority were an absolute waste of money. When I culled them however, several of them commanded high prices and whilst not offsetting the original cost, helped.

Also I learned from that and have not bought an amiibo since 2016, so y'know, change.

£9 seems like a lot for what's included given the outfits are large pieces (usually cheaper than several smaller pieces). Maybe they've scaled the sets down since the prices leaked and the final price is cheaper? Or maybe they are just insane?

Maybe.


Nintendo is bad

I always thought of Lego as well worth the price as it offers much more than just the set and a collection can be added to and played with in many different ways. Plus it is timeless and the bricks from my youth will work with anything from today.

That said when it gets to larger and more specific parts like these it can fuck off.

Right I've signed up livdiv

560 banger for the complete set. Almost the same as PS5

The enemies are in blind bags so that's actually a MINIMUM of £560 for the whole set.

What? For real?!

If you look at any Lego range the price is probably for the full set is insane too, surely the whole point of this is Mario thing that it's pic'n'mix rather than go all in on day one?

I guess i'm just looking at it as the kind of thing a kid would get two or three kits of for their Christmas present I guess. I think Lego is generally ridiculous in price anyway.

I know you're joshing but...yeah it sounds like hypocrisy to say that about Lego vs GW. But my personal counter to that stuff is that I rarely pay RRP for anything GW make, it's generally 10%-20% off at third party stores, or mates rates for stuff like box splitting of stuff that GW already sell at a discount, further discounted by the resellers. Then there's all the time building and painting it, then the fact I can play warhammer with it. Knight was something like £67 from a thrid party store and it took me over a week to build and paint it.

Gunpla which i've dabled in feels like a more apt comparison. They're more akin to desk decoration, like Lego stuff, and they're sort of wonkily priced at times. But a £15 IBO Gunpla kit is a lot more fun than a £15 Lego kit, and they're posable too if you're a dork. The Master great stuff is quite big, and the Perfect grade stuff is unreasonably huge, but the Real Grade stuff is amazing - genuine little works of mechanical genius. There's a lot of joy in how Lego goes to gether, but Gunpla is fascinating - how they achieve the colour splitting with limited sprues, the weird little mechanical things that go on under the plates to make the range of motion in the joints possible.

I guess GW stuff and Gunpla tick more aesthetic boxes for me, but occasionally I drift over to the Lego store and the prices feel like gut punches. Find it easier to drop £15-£30 on a gunpla or a GW model/squad than I do for the equivalent lego stuff, which always feels to me as quite stingey.

All that said, I think the Lego Mario price sort of makes sense, given that it's meant to be pieces used in conjunction with some software.None of the play kits seem any more miserly than other equivalently priced Lego kits.

I think on a Lego level it’s probably about equivalent. However the context And use of each kit is very narrow and explicitly so. That see saw with the piranha plants is literally and explicitly good for this tiny activity an activity that is meant to be part of a wider range.

Contrast that with a car or something on which you can choose more easily to apply your own fun to with your imagination and use it more broadly I think.

FranticPea wrote:

I really was joshing, but thats some reply Can you easily dismantle the Knight and turn it into a hovercraft though? NO, I DIDN'T THINK SO

No but I magnetised its arms so I can chop and change between a Rampager and a Desecrator!

Also no one ever built the shitty back of the box alternate things, it's a lie we tell ourselves to feel good about ourselves.