[dukefett]

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Originally Posted by protostar8

Lego products are neat, but the company has really lost touch on the pricing. With 3D printers being a thing now, you could probably print this entire kit yourself for $10 worth of filament, maybe $20. So I know their production costs would probably be <$5 given economies of scale. So they are saying that customers should pay $195 for licensing, packing, and distribution plus a little for engineering (which honestly they probably didn't have to put in too much effort on this, maybe a day's wages for a designer).

Given a blank slate, there's no way a designer is going to create this in ONE DAY. I mean are you serious? Have you ever sat down and designed anything, let alone something you have to build? You couldn't create the instructions in a one 8 hour day.