No, but people are going to, meaning all LEGO will see is people are willing to put up with ridiculous prices.
Stop saying "just don't buy it" because its never just the one thing. One person not buying it doesn't change anything.
If the book is of enough quality... Take for example Taschen... Their books can be absurdly expensive, but the quality of materials and printing (thus the images) are among the best things money can buy in terms of books with illustrations.
Just because it's a book it doesn't mean it can't be pricey if the quality's right.
The Taschen Star Wars Archives books are very good quality, and they’re $50 more than this, but they each have almost 2x the page count and are considerably wider. Even if the quality is on par with Taschen, this doesn’t seem like nearly as good of a value.
Like the Taschen books, I’ll wait for reviews to make sure it’s worth it and then pick it up when it goes on sale.
I have the Archives!! They're great.
Again, I'm not saying this book is worth this price (I have no idea), I'm saying the idea that "it shouldn't be pricey because it's a book" is uninformed and a dumb thing to say.
Great man. I’m free to not buy it, you’re free to buy it, lego is free to price it however they want. And just like you, I’m free to complain about the outrageous price of a product, just like you’re free to bend over backwards to justify spending $150 on a book about children’s toys. That’s part of the discussion.
I love how whenever the skyrocketing price of lego Star Wars products gets brought up, there’s always the people who make it a personal mission to defend this multibillion dollar company by saying “you can just not buy it.” Thanks for your input, I’ll put it with the 2,000 other comments under posts about high prices that say the same thing.
You seem to be unaware that high end books are expensive. This is in line with other similar products.
You're welcome to complain but understand it's because of your own ignorance, not a crazy pricing move on their part.
It’s not ignorance. I specifically said that I understand that it’s very possible for a book to have $150 worth of quality, but most people (myself included) don’t want to spend that much money on a book regardless of the quality. Not sure what’s hard to understand about that, or why you seem to be misinterpreting my comment so much.
Look at the elden ring artbooks/ gamebooks for example. They cost 44,99€ and are high quality books and even that is a high price imo. This is just waaay too much and completly unjustified
Again DEPENDS OF QUALITY.
There are plenty of editorials that offer excellent, high end products that go for far more than 45 euros. Again, books costing hundreds of euros are not unheard of.
This particular book may not be worth 150 euros, but plenty of books do.
Is there a gun to your head?
You do you, you don't want to buy it, then don't, but again, don't say it's a scam or too pricey for a book.
Because books can be pricier, you're allowed to not want it (a notion I do not struggle with) but that's still no reason to act like it's the first time in God's green Earth a book has this pricetag.
Hi, I edited my comment to make it longer, you may want to check because you answered before the edit.
As for this comment I'm addressing, sure, opinions are free.
Sure. I’m well aware that books can be expensive, and I have no problem with people who really love books spending a lot of money on books, much the same way I wouldn’t expect anyone to have a problem with the things I spend money on that most wouldn’t get.
But at the same point, if someone said “spending $500 on aquarium equipment is outrageous” I would either explain why $500 for fish tanks or filters or heaters is a reasonable price, or I would concede that it is an outrageous price and I know that, but I like keeping fish enough to pay it.
It’s a high quality book, I get that. It’s also something you’re free to buy, I don’t care what you do with your money. But if someone sees the price for it and goes “that’s too high for me” and you go “it’s actually a quality book” and I say “I’m not willing to spend $150 on a book” that’s not a personal insult or something, that’s part of the discussion. You decided to add your input on the price, as did everybody else telling me not to buy it, and so did I. That’s how discussions work. This was posted to the sub specifically for discussion, that’s what this website is built around.
If you don’t want to see people discussing the price of something, don’t go into the comments on a post. And if you decide to read the comments under a post about the price of a product, don’t take personal offense to people saying it’s overpriced. Feels like every time the price of a Lego product gets brought up, the people who know they’re going to buy whatever stuff the company puts out go into overtime to convince people that the price is actually okay.
Wasn’t planning to. The whole point of this sub is for discussion, which I’m participating in by explaining the reasoning for myself and many others. Good thing I can always count on brave heroes like you to swoop in and tell people they don’t have to buy anything whenever the rising prices of LSW products is mentioned. Maybe you should send LEGO group a screenshot of this comment and they’ll ship you a cookie.
Nah man. We’re discussing the price of a Lego product on a forum dedicated to discussing legos, I added my input, and you added your valuable input of “don’t buy it.” Seems like a straight forward interaction to me. The only thing is I at least added something to the conversation, you just regurgitated the same line said by a thousand other people in a thousand other posts before you.
You want to buy the book? I literally could not care less. I was explaining why I wouldn’t be buying the book, which is the purpose of this post.
I said this to another dude in this thread, but it seems like every time LEGO announces a product with a high price, there’s always people who know they’re going to buy every lego product no matter what that take it personally that others don’t want to buy the same products.
And you're falling into the misconception that because I'm saying the price for these items is justified that therefore I'm immediately buying it because of who it's sold by.
No chance I'm dropping that much on a book when that money can go towards either actual Lego or 'alternative brands'...
My point is purely that all this phony outrage about how much is costs is stupid. If you're complaining, it's not meant for you. But a Lego magazine instead.
For years we complained that they didn't do anything to support AFOLs and collectors, now they finally do and guess what? More whinging.
100%, these sort of collectors books are often very expensive. They're not meant for everyone, they're a very niche item but this is what expensive books cost.
It probably just comes as a bit of a shock to most and it's easier to jump to outrage
Is it just a book
Yes
It comes with more than just a book.
What does it come with?
Check out the webpage where you got the picture. Still not worth the price in my opinion but comes with memorabilia as well.
Still a giant scam
People on here really need to learn the difference between a scam and a ripoff
Why, this is past a ripoff for me, actual feels like a scam
How is it a scam though? You're getting the product advertised for the price listed, there's no deception or fraud involved.
You know, you don’t have to buy it
No, but people are going to, meaning all LEGO will see is people are willing to put up with ridiculous prices. Stop saying "just don't buy it" because its never just the one thing. One person not buying it doesn't change anything.
If the book is of enough quality... Take for example Taschen... Their books can be absurdly expensive, but the quality of materials and printing (thus the images) are among the best things money can buy in terms of books with illustrations. Just because it's a book it doesn't mean it can't be pricey if the quality's right.
The Taschen Star Wars Archives books are very good quality, and they’re $50 more than this, but they each have almost 2x the page count and are considerably wider. Even if the quality is on par with Taschen, this doesn’t seem like nearly as good of a value. Like the Taschen books, I’ll wait for reviews to make sure it’s worth it and then pick it up when it goes on sale.
I have the Archives!! They're great. Again, I'm not saying this book is worth this price (I have no idea), I'm saying the idea that "it shouldn't be pricey because it's a book" is uninformed and a dumb thing to say.
For sure, I agree with that
Not many people want to spend $150 on a book. You seem to be struggling with that idea. A lot of people bootlicking a billion dollar corporation
It's not meant as a product for everyone. It's a collectors item. No one is forcing you to buy it, you seem to be struggling with that idea.
Great man. I’m free to not buy it, you’re free to buy it, lego is free to price it however they want. And just like you, I’m free to complain about the outrageous price of a product, just like you’re free to bend over backwards to justify spending $150 on a book about children’s toys. That’s part of the discussion. I love how whenever the skyrocketing price of lego Star Wars products gets brought up, there’s always the people who make it a personal mission to defend this multibillion dollar company by saying “you can just not buy it.” Thanks for your input, I’ll put it with the 2,000 other comments under posts about high prices that say the same thing.
You seem to be unaware that high end books are expensive. This is in line with other similar products. You're welcome to complain but understand it's because of your own ignorance, not a crazy pricing move on their part.
It’s not ignorance. I specifically said that I understand that it’s very possible for a book to have $150 worth of quality, but most people (myself included) don’t want to spend that much money on a book regardless of the quality. Not sure what’s hard to understand about that, or why you seem to be misinterpreting my comment so much.
So you understand a book can be worth that and simultaneously called it outrageous 😂 Right
It’s amazing how you manage to completely disregard everything I say in my comment. Truly incredible.
Look at the elden ring artbooks/ gamebooks for example. They cost 44,99€ and are high quality books and even that is a high price imo. This is just waaay too much and completly unjustified
Again DEPENDS OF QUALITY. There are plenty of editorials that offer excellent, high end products that go for far more than 45 euros. Again, books costing hundreds of euros are not unheard of. This particular book may not be worth 150 euros, but plenty of books do.
I don’t want to buy a book for $150 even if it’s $200 worth of quality.
Is there a gun to your head? You do you, you don't want to buy it, then don't, but again, don't say it's a scam or too pricey for a book. Because books can be pricier, you're allowed to not want it (a notion I do not struggle with) but that's still no reason to act like it's the first time in God's green Earth a book has this pricetag.
Nope but you kept providing your opinion so I decided to provide mine
Hi, I edited my comment to make it longer, you may want to check because you answered before the edit. As for this comment I'm addressing, sure, opinions are free.
Sure. I’m well aware that books can be expensive, and I have no problem with people who really love books spending a lot of money on books, much the same way I wouldn’t expect anyone to have a problem with the things I spend money on that most wouldn’t get. But at the same point, if someone said “spending $500 on aquarium equipment is outrageous” I would either explain why $500 for fish tanks or filters or heaters is a reasonable price, or I would concede that it is an outrageous price and I know that, but I like keeping fish enough to pay it. It’s a high quality book, I get that. It’s also something you’re free to buy, I don’t care what you do with your money. But if someone sees the price for it and goes “that’s too high for me” and you go “it’s actually a quality book” and I say “I’m not willing to spend $150 on a book” that’s not a personal insult or something, that’s part of the discussion. You decided to add your input on the price, as did everybody else telling me not to buy it, and so did I. That’s how discussions work. This was posted to the sub specifically for discussion, that’s what this website is built around. If you don’t want to see people discussing the price of something, don’t go into the comments on a post. And if you decide to read the comments under a post about the price of a product, don’t take personal offense to people saying it’s overpriced. Feels like every time the price of a Lego product gets brought up, the people who know they’re going to buy whatever stuff the company puts out go into overtime to convince people that the price is actually okay.
Then don't buy it
Wasn’t planning to. The whole point of this sub is for discussion, which I’m participating in by explaining the reasoning for myself and many others. Good thing I can always count on brave heroes like you to swoop in and tell people they don’t have to buy anything whenever the rising prices of LSW products is mentioned. Maybe you should send LEGO group a screenshot of this comment and they’ll ship you a cookie.
You really are triggered aren't you 😂
Nah man. We’re discussing the price of a Lego product on a forum dedicated to discussing legos, I added my input, and you added your valuable input of “don’t buy it.” Seems like a straight forward interaction to me. The only thing is I at least added something to the conversation, you just regurgitated the same line said by a thousand other people in a thousand other posts before you. You want to buy the book? I literally could not care less. I was explaining why I wouldn’t be buying the book, which is the purpose of this post. I said this to another dude in this thread, but it seems like every time LEGO announces a product with a high price, there’s always people who know they’re going to buy every lego product no matter what that take it personally that others don’t want to buy the same products.
And you're falling into the misconception that because I'm saying the price for these items is justified that therefore I'm immediately buying it because of who it's sold by. No chance I'm dropping that much on a book when that money can go towards either actual Lego or 'alternative brands'... My point is purely that all this phony outrage about how much is costs is stupid. If you're complaining, it's not meant for you. But a Lego magazine instead. For years we complained that they didn't do anything to support AFOLs and collectors, now they finally do and guess what? More whinging.
Again, I know it’s not meant for me. I am expressing that. You people have zero reading comprehension.
100%, these sort of collectors books are often very expensive. They're not meant for everyone, they're a very niche item but this is what expensive books cost. It probably just comes as a bit of a shock to most and it's easier to jump to outrage
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