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Lego really dialed the monopoly rent to 11. I wonder what the material cost for a 2,000 pieces set really is? After all it's a bunch of formed plastic pellets.
by ysamjo 5y ago
Lego really dialed the monopoly rent to 11. I wonder what the material cost for a 2,000 pieces set really is? After all it's a bunch of formed plastic pellets.
My journey and a product idea: https://medium.com/hyperlinked/whats-missing-creator-platform-for-lego-bricks-94e6dfc5afcf https://medium.com/hyperlinked/whats-missing-creator-platfor...
- tills13 5y agoSeems like you're missing the part where they have to pay someone (or more accurately, entire teams of people) a lot of money to actually come up with the set idea and instructions. Boiling LEGO down to just "a bunch of formed plastic" is criminal.
- ysamjo 5y agoPlease read the article before you write a comment. I explicitly said in it that LEGO is successful because of the combination of instructions and plastic. I further argue that you could unlock value by unbundle the two. If you have salary data on LEGO designers please share. In the meantime I assume a good model designer would make more in the described platform model. (Comparable to a newspaper journalist going solo with Substack.)