Lego Technic piece count, ownership and rating stats from Brickset

[johnnytifosi]

Brickset is a very good source of info on Lego sets. One can also download easily data in the form of csv files, easily processable in a spreadsheet. I downloaded data for all Technic sets released ever here: https://brickset.com/sets/theme-Technic/ and then made graphs for sets released, piece count, user rating and ownership. I removed all sets that are not regular releases (GWPs, promotional sets, combo packs etc.). The sample is the biggest one we can freely get, but of course it is not perfect:     

• the user sample (335000 members) consists mainly of AFOLs, who tilt a lot towards larger expensive sets (it can be easily seen from the fact that the most owned set overall is the 400 euro Bugatti Chiron!)     
• in my opinion here is some recency bias in ownership stats due to the older sets being lost / thrown away etc     
• the ownership stats of new sets are not complete, that's why there is a big drop off in ownership of 2023 or 2024 sets     
• Lots of sets with low ownership do not get a user rating. 

It still produces some interesting plots nevertheless.

 

Edited October 9, 2024 by johnnytifosi

[tseary]

Thanks for sharing this. It's interesting to see how things change.

I can see the lull in ownership in 2000. Are Bionicle sets included in this? I'm guessing so based on the high number of sets released that year.

[johnnytifosi]

No Bionicles in this. Brickset includes Competition, Slizers and Robo Riders as "Technic" in 1999/2000 in its list.