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Inflation doesn't match the price increase though. $399 in 2008 dollars is now $446

Yeah it certainly is very hard to determine the true value to a set. The one thing I wanted to explore is whether or not TLG has changed the parts count and price over the past few years, and it looks like they haven't, usually giving us the same amount of pieces and minfigs for a similar price. It also happens to be cheaper than City sets, although City tends to come with larger parts, power functions, huge boat molds, etc. which can inflate the parts/dollar. It would be interesting to see how they compare on weight, though, which I feel is a better metric of the amount of Lego you get in a set

Slave I Sandcrawler - a lot of people don't like the brown bucket but I really enjoyed the build and the final model R2-D2 I haven't got a whole lot of older stuff so this would be the top 3 for me

Larger blobs are sets with more minfigs

Here's the Star Wars v City comparison that someone wanted Not as good price/parts value at the high end, but that's usually due to large molds (eg. boats, spaceships, planes, train tracks) or power functions

With that said, the prices for Lego Star Wars per piece over the past years have stayed pretty similar, in the 11-13 c/piece range. There hasn't really been a trend towards worse price/parts in recent years.

Here's updated charts with 2016-2011 UCS sets included above Close up of the non-UCS sets

Here's a quick price per part comparison for this year's 2016 middle wave. Blue Squares are the upcoming wave Yellow Triangles are last year's middle wave Black line is the 10c/pc marker. Anything above the line has been considered "good value" Notable standouts are this year's $100-150 sets, which are poor price/part value, as well as the previous two UCS sets, also not great value Basically every Force Awakens set, with the exclusion of the Snowspeeder, haven't been great price/part value Here's the same chart, adjusted to only show the years Here's another chart with larger bubbles showing more minfigs in the set

More photos: http://www.hothbricks.com/2016/02/new-york-toy-fair-2016-cest-parti/ http://www.brickshow.tv/news/2016-lego-star-wars-nytf-images http://toynewsi.com/news.php?itemid=25949

Updated with set prices. Jakku for $60 is a lot better than the rumored $80

I'd say so:

And here are some more from Twitter https://twitter.com/justinlasalata/ Basic set info: Captain Rex's AT-TE - $119.99 - 972 pcs - Stormtrooper, Imperial Inquisitor Fifth Brother, Commander Gregor, Captain Rex, Commander Wolfe Clone Turbo Tank - $109.99 - 903 pcs - Luminara Unduli, Quinlan Vos, Clone Commander Gree, Elite Corps Clone Trooper, 2x Battle Droid Vader's Tie Advanced vs A-Wing Starfighter - $89.99 - 702 pcs - Darth Vader, Grand Moff Tarkin, Sabine Wren, A-Wing Pilot Resistance X-Wing Fighter - $79.99 - 740 pcs - Poe Dameron, BB-8, Lor San Tekka, First Order Flametrooper Encounter on Jakku - $59.99 - 530 pcs - Unkar Plutt, Teedo, Rey, BB-8 Eclipse Fighter - $29.99 - 363 pcs - Dengar, Naare StarScavenger - $49.99 - 558 pcs - Rowan, Zander, Kordi, RD-GR (Rodger) Advent Calendar - 282 pcs

Encounter on Jakku https://twitter.com/...7807744/photo/1 StarScavenger