Sorry I missed this post. That is really cool and one of the only things I miss about living in a major country. We don't really have stuff like that over here although Japan has a Disney and Singapore has a Universal Studios. Just like you would expect and I am sure it is the same in Cali, these places are wildly expensive .
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Easy to miss. Haha, I haven't been very active on here the last few months. Busy with 'dad life'.
We have annual passes to so many of these things now. Coincidentally, just today we went to "Legoland" which my son absolutely loves. This summer has been killer though and I am NOT doing well with the heat. I can't even imagine how it's been on your side of the world.
And yes - you are right. The cost is so bad. I literally get angry at how they exploit people. You really want to take your kids and give them a good time, but come on man. Do they really have to charge so much? And of course the insult to injury, absurd parking fees on top of the insane ticket fee.
Even though I am in my 40's I still really love Lego. Even though I don't collect "stuff" and I think Lego is overpriced as hell, on the escalator up to bowling I eye up the Lego Star Wars section every single week. An X-wing is like $70 though and that is just outrageous in my mind. Were they that expensive when we were kinds? If so I can't really imagine my rather stingy parents guying it.
How much was the parking. It's Cali, so I am gonna guess more than $40
I think it actually cost exactly $40. I might be thinking of Knott's Berry Farm though, another park we go to. YES! Lego are insanely overpriced and they are super stingy with the amount of pieces they give you. I actually was about to 3d print a giant bucket of legos for my kid. He is getting tired of running out constantly when trying to build anything.
I really don't think so. And if they were, they sure gave a lot more pieces. I remember having a huge box of them and never seemed to run out. I also bought my son a rather large metal pail of Lincoln Logs which I was really dissapointed to see when I opened it that the pail was mostly empty. How much can it possibly cost to fill a can with cheap wood?
I don't recall if they were expensive or not but I'm gonna guess that they probably weren't because my family was not wealthy but yet we had a lot of them. here in Vietnam they are prohibitively expensive. That small x-wing? I went back to double-check and yes, it was $60.
No chance my family would have paid anything near that much. I think Lego maybe re-branded themselves and realized that the demand was large enough that they could charge more at the expense of selling fewer units yet still make more money in the process. It's not like they have any competition.
Wow! $60 is bad enough here, but I don't even know who their target audience is in Vietnam at that price. I know Asian people are a lot more frugal.
I actually recently 3d printed a few lego clone bricks for my kid, and they work fine when connected to real ones. I think I might print a big bucket of them. Will cost very little to print in resin, and a little bit of time to clean them but not bad. On the last batch I used some resin that was a little brittle, but now I have this really hard plastic stuff that can bend a lot without breaking.
that would be wild if that worked. that must be a game-changer for the people that do custom builds. decades ago an engineer friend of mine had to scour the internet looking for various pieces in order to build a custom Star Wars Star Destroyer. It was about 5 feet long and took him over a year to find all the pieces. I didn't ask how much it cost but I am sure it was a lot.