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It's curious how in the last decade the upper price of a lego set has grown so much. Lego finally realized that there's an untapped adult market for lego sets. It's been fun to see that transition (despite the effect it's had on my wallet.)
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"it is believed he didn't react quickly enough) and helped make it shocking that it happened at all." Smith was born in 1850. Back then 52,000 tonne displacement ships were pretty rare (rocking horse shit rare). I contend that the likes of Titanic were too complicated and too big and unsafe by design. Nowadays we have far bigger ships. I've sailed on a monster cruise ship into NOLA from the Gulf of Mexico - we overto…
One study suggested the metal was unusually brittle and that is likely a significant factor in the disaster. Another found that the Captain's decision to leave the doors closed -- which has been questioned by some people -- was the right call and slowed the sinking. All other scenarios sank dramatically faster and had other issues, though I don't recall the details. I can imagine that some sort of mistake in judgemen…
He was in command of her sistership Olympic when she collided with HMS Hawke in 1911.
It's curious how in the last decade the upper price of a lego set has grown so much. Lego finally realized that there's an untapped adult market for lego sets. It's been fun to see that transition (despite the effect it's had on my wallet.)
LEGO's always been expensive, in the late 80's early 90's as well, go ask my parents :D
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LEGO's always been expensive, in the late 80's early 90's as well, go ask my parents :D
Lego's never had $500+ sets until fairly recently.
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Lego's never had $500+ sets until fairly recently.
There was one in 2007: https://brickset.com/sets/10179-1/Ultimate-Collector-s-Mille...
Whereas now there are multiple $500+ sets on sale concurrently, multiple sets that have multi-thousand-piece part counts. It's undeniable that in the last 10 years LEGO has significantly leaned into serving the adult market.