Capitalism realized a while ago that a huge swath of young millennials and elder Gen Z are just broke enough to not comfortably start a family or buy a house but just flush with enough cash to fill the emotional holes left by shitty boomer parents with overpriced children’s toys.
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I mean it's 9000 pieces, that's about in line with Lego prices for a while now
It's a lot of pieces sure, but I was imagining a big nice looking model of the Death Star at that price, not a playset where they've crammed a representation of every single room from the movie into a little dollhouse.
I was gonna say kids love dollhouses but it's a $1000 set lol. It's a shame that Lego barely makes the cheap sets anymore, most of the sets I got as a kid were like $10-20 but now most of the new sets are like $100+