warrenzevon12

So this MOC is for a star wars ship that has no official model from lego..... I was just looking for a model for my bookshelf, and I didn't bother looking at using existing kits cause those are all really expensive. Maybe I should look at that in stead. https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-132456/2bricksofficial/fondor-haulcraft-play-set-scale/?sort_parts_by=4&sort_parts_dir=D#buy_parts

Simple question: how do I buy Legos without paying an immense amount of money? I understand official sets costing a lot because of licensing and such (though even then the prices can skyrocket it seems). But even trying to buy parts is stupid expensive! I found a build for an unofficial model and it has 1.6k parts (I understand that’s a lot of parts), I go to look to see how much the parts cost and it’s around $1k, for parts! For example: The Onyx Cinder is about 300 parts less and cost less than $200. The big space wale Venator (which is over twice as many parts at 5.3k) is just under $700, how are parts so expensive?