There were the themed sets: race, fire patrol, police and some other mundane sets and it was enough. It was really enough and really fun as it was because the basic premise was to get the person started on discovering how to build anything with those basic plastic pieces.

Then, at some point, you start to get the movie themed sets and the prices skyrocket.

Any set related to Starwars, which implies Disney, is stupid expensive. The Harry Potter and Minecraft as well. Ninjago. And by extension, any LEGO set today is stupid expensive. The Technix line was always expensive but on that front I could understand.

As we speak, in my country, there are retaillers importing from China construction brick sets that are as good as LEGO at a fraction of the price.

I have two sets laying around, one of which is 600+ pieces that cost less than €15. The same money would get a very small LEGO set.

As someone who grew playing and loving LEGO: fuck you, you sellouts.