DPsx7 said:
Slownenberg said:
I am very surprised by these responses. I can't imagine anyone wanting to pay the cost of a video game system for a lego model of a video game system. Thats insane. Like literally you build it, set it on your shelf, and you're done with it. It's not even a toy you can play with, it's just a model that sits on your shelf and costs as much as a video game system. I would figure it would sell a few thousand copies to really hardcore gaming memorabilia collectors and that's it.
Now if it had a chipset you laid within the lego build and it actually played Nintendo games that'd be one thing, still way overpriced even with that but it'd be cool to have a working lego NES. But as a lego model that does nothing I can't fathom why this would cost more than a NES mini and why anyone would pay for it.
Fanboys like to joke about competitor systems sitting on a shelf collecting dust, but that is literally what this is, and costs the same as an actual video game system. |
Lego has always been expensive. Look around at some of the other 'adult' sets. Starwars, Technic, Simpsons, these sets have thousands of pieces and cost a few hundred. I guess you can say you're paying for the experience of building it.
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But the difference is that those things you can actually play with. There's ships and environments and figures and stuff. This is just a fake NES and fake TV. There's nothing to "do" with it. You unload $250 from your bank account, you build it, maybe you turn the crank for 5 minutes and say "oh cool", then it sits on your shelf gathering dust until you find some sucker to sell it to. It's a model, not a toy, that costs as much as a video game system.
Anyone who thinks there is something to play with here is gonna be very upset at having wasted $250 on a model.
