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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).

Yes. It's a luxury. Lego can charge whatever they think people will pay for it. When it arrives at stores, THEN we'll find out if it's overpriced or not by how quickly it sells out.