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[–] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 39 points 10 months ago (10 children)

Even when I have extra income, I just cannot bring myself to spend several hundred dollars on Lego. They had this Batman shadowbox set that was fucking DOPE and yeah, I could have saved up to buy it, but if I did I know it wouldn't make me happy knowing how much I'd spent on it, I'd just always think omg, I dropped hundreds of dollars on this, am I an idiot?

[–] Benjaben@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

Something that I came up with during the pandemic was to buy, build, and then resell full kits in basically new condition on a site called Bricklink. It's like eBay for LEGO only, with an insane number of filtering options and seller base (FFS I found kits for sale I played with as a kid lol).

Doesn't quite work out to "free" and it's a bit of a hassle, but it solves that problem for me of wanting to enjoy a big involved build, but being a (boringly) sane adult who can't justify spending hundreds of dollars on tiny plastic (magnificently designed, engineered, and mfg'ed) bricks.

Edit: Check it out lol

[–] wizzim 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

When you resell, do you generally do a profit on it ?

[–] Benjaben@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well, no, there's a ton of sellers. If you want it to actually sell, you take a bit of a loss. Think of it like an annoyingly involved rental program.

I think some kits can get more expensive than retail due to rarity or something, but I wasn't looking at any of that, just wanted an affordable way to build some cool kits.

[–] wizzim 2 points 10 months ago

Understood. But it's a cool idea, I've always preferred building the model than play with it 🙂

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