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Surely the price of Lego will plummet if 3D printing ever lives up to its promise.
by sbmassey 14y ago
Surely the price of Lego will plummet if 3D printing ever lives up to its promise.
- DigitalJack 14y agoHow so? I can't imagine printing your own bricks will ever be cheaper that mass production.
- mikek 14y agoThere is a significant markup though. Cutting out the middleman could make it cheaper.
- dsr_ 14y agoHowever, the market for rare pieces will first see counterfeits, and when the counterfeits get good enough, collapse back to the marginal cost of ABS + production.
- wtracy 14y agoIt would collapse back to the cost of 3D printing the parts, which is still significantly more than the cost of molding ABS.
- zem 14y agoi really doubt 3d printers will make pieces of the quality of lego pieces any time soon. (i'd be very happy to be proven wrong, of course!)