5 replies to this topic

[David85]

I was over at Lugnet and people still complain about the color change, "Let's complain right to the CEO!!!", dumbasses, it's over move on.

Anyways, someone posted pictures from a Sears Catalog from the 1960s and they had some really high prices.

http://news.lugnet.c...eneral/?n=49585.

Back in 1962 165 pieces of Lego cost $3.77, and a 324 piece set cost $9.77.

That is a ton of money!  A movie cost 25 cents back then and you got a candy bar with that, and sometimes another movie.  Now a movie and a candy bar cost well over $10.

That is a crazy ammount to pay considering today you can get a set of 100 pieces for $3.50....
http://shop.lego.com...&cn=44&d=11&t=5

You Europeans have it bad, but image it back then, it would take months to get one small Lego set.


*Can someone change the title word "were" to "are".  Thank you  :)

Edit by ApophisV: Sure... ;)

[Vader]

That was a time before shaping plastics was easy, glad their noy quite as steep today ;) .

[jonfett]

Not sure if I would want to be a child in the 60's. The last few years it took me a while to save up for one big lego set I wanted. As David said, it would have taken a very long time then, seeing as $3.77 is probably worth over $10-15 now.

But I cannot understand.. are lego prices getting more expensive now? or are they getting cheaper. It is hard to tell :/

Jon.

[David85]

I think they are cheaper.

The fire station this year is only $30, it only has 260 pieces but thats more than the last one.

[mahjqa]

I recall digging in my older LEGO catalogues, and being astonished at the prices. The old amounts were in a now obsolete currency (with Europe getting the Euro and all) but the prices were pretty steep, even in the 1980s.

[Orlego]

Lego were always expensive when I was a kid. My mother loved Lego and liked to buy them for us, however, she always bitched about the price.


Did you see this...

"This is the Lego System by Samsonite"

Did Samsonite own Lego at one point?

http://www.brickshel...mas_catalog.jpg