![]() If I was willing to work with substandard pieces, I could get the set all at once, for literal pennies on the dollar, and have a new stunning centerpiece to my collection. The penny dropped: This was a seller who had taken the parts list from Nicola Stocchi’s design, populated it with knock-off LEGO pieces ( which are entirely legal, if nowhere near as good as the real thing), and created an ad-hoc LEGO set of one of the most drool-worthy designs I’d ever seen. Once I paid for the set, I noticed that the listing very carefully omitted the word “LEGO,” and that it was shipping from China. What was even more amazing was that it was selling for $152 with free shipping-less than many real LEGO sets, and an absolute steal considering that its nearly 5,000 pieces worked out to only about two cents a piece! While searching for some Horizon: Zero Dawn memorabilia on an auction site, I spotted the Thunderjaw design I’d been drooling over for more than a year… sold not as a set of instructions, but as a full building set with pieces, delivered to my door like a conventional LEGO set. LEGO can get expensive, but even the most ardent collector might balk at those prices. Suddenly that massive, beautiful robot costs more than 30 cents a piece! Using its multi-buy tool to get every single piece from dozens of independent shops, the cost comes out to a soul-crushing $1,123, plus a whopping $440 for shipping. According to Rebrickable, getting about 90% of those common parts from one shop would cost somewhere around $600-700. But buying a massive custom project, piece by piece, can really rack up that price.
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