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Lego’s first Legend of Zelda set is a 2,500-piece Great Deku Tree (www.theverge.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Link for those who want to see the official listing.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wow, $300

If you dig through the pictures there's a decent bit more to it than just the initial diorama, but still.

Hope the bootleggers do a good job copying it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wait. There's bootleg Lego?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Lego is so old that the patent on lego expired like a decade ago. Now you have alternatives like https://mouldkingcorp.com/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Damn they have some nice looking "space wars" sets

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wonder how pissed my nephew would be if I started getting him these...

[–] pythonoob 9 points 5 months ago

The quality of some of these are way better than mega blocks but still not up to the par of Lego in most cases. In my experience knockoff mini figs are better made than loose bricks.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Could you also share a Zelda?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Fine, but only the one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@SpaceNoodle @Nadaph

Share a zelda? You mean like how Bowser and Mario share Peach?

I mean I guess.......Zelda gets kidnapped just as often as Peach, and yet nobody ever says Ganon and Zelda are willing lovers, but EVERYBODY says it about Peach and Bowser.

Kinda weird, right? IF someone EVER gets kidnapped, its once in a lifetime thing. If they survive, they don't get kidnapped AGAIN.

Certainly not 13 or 16 more times.....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Zelda usually doesn't get kidnapped, though. She gets stuck in a refrigerator somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Personally this set is a little unimpressive/boring. It'll be interesting to see where they go from here cause the initial Mario sets were also lackluster.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

@jacksilver @misk

IT'S $300????

I'm out.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

That's on par for a set with that many pieces.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I'm not sure if it's valid anymore (I am far from a brick aficionado but I have friends that are very into it), but the old rule of thumb says $0.10 per piece, which would put this at $250. $50 Nintendo tax doesn't seem out of the question, either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

But it looks like most of them are the leaves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I don't disagree. Certainly not worth it at that price point for me.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It looks cool, but I'll never get over Lego sticker shock. I guess I've been out of the game too long.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I know right. For 300 notes, I want a lot more Lego than that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Man, I hope they'll make some smaller sets too. These are really cool display pieces, but I don't have the room or willingness to spend that kind of money.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Looks nice. Me wants!

[+] [email protected] -7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I don't understand the interest in lego sets. They were great to me as a kid because they were cheap and you could build whatever. But now as an adult they do have these expensive ass sets that always look fugly as hell and you really can only build what the box shows as the pieces are custom to the set

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

While you may not like the new sets, I don't think Lego has ever been cheap (source on price over time.

I think as kids, we just never realize how much things actually cost.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I only remember getting lego buckets and occasionally a lego design book. This is in the early 80's

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@Tronn4 @jacksilver

That's what I had. Just buckets and buckets of second hand legos. Some probably from the 1950s.

Some were probably so dirty that they were permanently dirty. And I build a dino-cow. What's a dino-cow? It's a half T-rex, half cow. Because I can!!!

Now kids are like "Here, build THIS". My niece doesn't know what to do with random assorted legos with no build.

I told her to quote Carl, "I don't NEED no INSTRUCTIONS to know how to ROCK!!!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Pretty much the same background. Lucky if I could get a new bucket of Legos from the store but it was usually a dollar or two bag of random pieces from the goodwill. But it felt better to me to be able to slap a few bricks together and call it a car or a chicken. I think of building or playing with Legos is to have an imagination to play with as well.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Both exist though and it's surprising the number of pieces they reuse and adapt just by changing their color

[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Completely agree. I loved Legos as a kid but now they suck. Why would I want to buy a set that can realistically only be used with that set. It's way too complicated. I want to dump them all in a bin then build whatever I want and not have to sort through all these useless niche fucking pieces.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

https://www.lego.com/en-us/themes/classic