Anything Licensed is more expensive - Marvel Super Heroes, DC, Starwars etc..
e.g. for the price of the Batman Tumbler you can get the largest Technic set - Mercedes-Benz Arocs with moving parts.
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Anything Licensed is more expensive - Marvel Super Heroes, DC, Starwars etc..
e.g. for the price of the Batman Tumbler you can get the largest Technic set - Mercedes-Benz Arocs with moving parts.
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I picked up the Pet Store last week for £100 (120rrp), 2000+ pieces. If you work out number of pieces vs costs, that's a little under 6p a piece, most licenced sets works out around or near 8-10p a piece.
2016-01-11_02-25-13 by *SM*, on FlickrJust received my third architecture set - Farnsworth House. That one is also one of the discontinued one so had to pay £100+ on Ebay from the US (once you factor in postage and customs). Works out at 20p a piece!!! Glad it's the last one I wanted in the series (for now).
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Just received my third architecture set - Farnsworth House. That one is also one of the discontinued one so had to pay £100+ on Ebay from the US (once you factor in postage and customs). Works out at £2 a piece!!! Glad it's the last one I wanted in the series (for now).
£2 per piece? How'd you work that out on £100 for 500+ pieces?
Doh, I meant 20p.
Hehe, got me wondering. I was like £1000+?!?! What?!?? ha
Surely the Mercedes-Benz Arocs would also be licensed?
not tempted to do the remote control conversion for the 24hr car than?I finished all the ones I bought a few weeks back. I can easily see myself getting carried away with technic sets, but I think I will buy 1 more!!
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I haven't built the Falcon yet (saving that for a few weeks time). Still need to attach the tracks to the bulldozer, but after that I might buy the Mercedes Truck.
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tbh, first time I have touched Lego in over 20 years! I think mods and stuff is way beyond how much time/effort I can put in!
At best I was thinking about buying the power pack recommended in this set, but that just powers the door and boot mechanisms and lights. I sense the full conversion to make it an RC would cost a lot and need many more parts.
The Mercedes truck comes with some motors, I wonder if they can add anything to the 24hr Car to save me buying the power kit?
rp2000
I guess the stickers may help, but I am undecided (haven't applied them to the other technics either).
It was a lot of fun to build (I have a hand injury at the moment so only used 1 hand to build it!!!). Took about 6-8 hours over 2 days.
Just ordered the Mercedes truck on Amazon
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You are all doing Lego wrong, you should build the item, then play with it, then progressively lose all the pieces and smash it up until you end up with a giant tub of random Lego.
The big Technic sets a large % of the pieces are the bags and bags of Technic pins. In a large model you can get 6+ bags of them!
Imagine if your SW set came with 6 bags of black 2x1 plates, I am sure you would be annoyed if you were paying 10p per piece!
Bags 4 completed
Out of interest, how many bags are there in the set?
About a dozen, around 3 for each number
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More than that, 14 numbers with at least 3 bags to each number.
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And I thought the Sandcrawler was a lot.