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Sagrada Família Lego set
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Re: Sagrada Família Lego set
#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have they completed the real thing ? I thought it was still being built…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/20/barcelona-sagr...
So no, they haven't completed it. They have completed some major construction milestones.
https://sagradafamilia.org/en/-/una-creu-que-arriba-al-cel-d...
Re: Sagrada Família Lego set
#153Once built, what does one do with this? Generally, these are fragile in the sense that moving them can cause parts of it to become disconnected or fall apart so you don't want to be moving it around to much. It's going to take up a whole lot of space. Your kids can't actually play with it. And if you intend to show it off, you aren't really showing any real skills except for the ability to follow pages and pages of i…
Sometimes the build is the fun part. Haven't you ever put together a puzzle?
Of course. I do jigsaw puzzles all the time but they aren't meant to be permanent nor is it difficult to take them apart and redo them. I even did the Saturn 5 Lego kit 8 or so years ago. It's why I asked the question. While the rocket was much smaller in scope (and price), it took maybe 5 evenings to complete. It was, and continues to be, very fragile. I have it sitting on a table on its stand but I honestly get no real pleasure nor satisfaction in seeing it. It, and the table, require occasional dusting so moving it is a challenge to not cause pieces to fall off or to replace such pieces that do fall off back where they belong without causing further damage. If something happens that does cause major damage, it's pretty much toast as trying to recreate the initial assembly is nearly impossible. I was just asking to see what others do with such things. To me, they're like visiting a museum that has a very steep entrance fee that hasn't changed an exhibits since it opened. Why go back?
Re: Sagrada Família Lego set
#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
In Germany there is a Lego subscription service. Put sets on a wishlist, they send you one of them. You build it, unbuild it and send it back. One set a month.
that sounds awesome. sad that something like that probably would not work well in USA. don't have the culture for it. too many pieces would get lost.
This can only work in Japan and Germany, I imagine. Maybe in Korea/China/Singapore with severe financial penalties and deposits.
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#155What they really should have done is sell the kit in 7 stages, each for $99 each, such that you can slowly build it as you can budget money for the construction. :) (This is how the Sagrada Família was built in case folks don't know its history)
That would actually be really cool if each stage of the build reflected the actual construction history
It's actually supposed to do exactly that! The set is supposedly designed to be built in the same order as the real life basilica was and is being built.
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#156With those prices LEGO is leaving a massive opening for their Chinese competitors.
Question is, are Lego fans going to buy a similar-quality chinese product or do they only buy Lego?
As a long-long-time Lego fan, yeah, some of us will buy the 'knockoffs' if they provide something different that Lego itself wont.
I myself have tried many of the non-Lego lego sets over the years. One that has been holding my attention recently has been Lumibricks, which integrates lights into the sets, and is also cheaper than official Lego sets for similar part counts. One of the big things I've found is that where Lego wins a lot of points is on their instructions and build steps. Many other companies either make their instructions hard to read or parse, or don't do a good job with progressively building up subassemblies so they don't collapse in your hands. But there are some Chinese companies that are now making the entire experience a similar quality level as Lego does. A lot of the 'knockoffs' also focus more on the visual of the model rather than the play. Lego itself is often willing to sacrifice some realism to make sets be more playable, much to the chagrin of some fans.
Lego used to have a huge moat in manufacturing. They made good molds, they perfected the processes for making pieces (barring a few problematic colours....cough brown and dark red) and they invested heavily into clear design targeted towards accomplishing a certain level of play and excitement from those buying and building the Lego sets. Now though, those things are not a moat, they're just basic table stakes, and there are a lot of other new players entering the market who are doing just as good. I've seen multiple stages of Lego's evolution over my life, and I think they're going to need to come up with something new that's not just a silly expensive noise/light brick to continue to command the price premium that they do. Sure, their IP deals will probably float them for a while, but without bringing something new to the recipe, they might slowly start to go the way of jello deserts.
Re: Sagrada Família Lego set
#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
Adjusted for inflation, lego set prices have been consistent over the years: > https://bricknerd.com/home/greed-or-inflation-an-economic-an... Inflation-adjusted price per piece has actually been declining over the years, dropping from ~$0.25 to a current $0.10 on average. This set is $0.06 per piece, so even less expensive than a median set by that metric.
but the people buying has not had their purchasing power keep up, demographic have shifted entirely over the years
Someone should invent a metric for when prices inflate across the board, making the purchasing power of a currency unit go down. Then people could control for prices over time.
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#159For that price I'd fly to go see it in person and spend the change on building the Kaaba.
Re: Sagrada Família Lego set
#160I have the 2017 edition of the Lego Millenium Falcon and ~7500 pieces took about 30 hours without being super organized or focused. At that rate, this is almost 50 hours of assembly but I'd wager there's a ton of duplication in this one, likely speeding things up. And yes, for these sorts of sets, you put them on display. I added LEDs to mine: https://x.com/CaseySoftware/status/1766667069003645362
I'd love to see the back of that if you actually integrated the LEDs into the main engine (and I apologize if you did post other photos, I have X mostly blocked so I can only see the directly linked post.) I've been hacking at adding some lights to a few sets that I thought would look great with actual lighting on them, and my biggest challenge has been the routing of all the wires in a way where the lights actually…
>I have X mostly blocked so I can only see the directly linked post
Just add the word cancel:
https://xcancel.com/CaseySoftware/status/1766667069003645362