KGET Bakersfield: 3 people under arrest after allegedly stealing $1M worth of Lego

https://www.kget.com/news/crime-watch/3-arrested-after-allegedly-stealing-1m-worth-of-legos-bakersfield/

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"...After conducting traffic stops on both vehicles, deputies searched the trucks and found approximately $1 million worth of Lego products stolen from two freight trailers. ..."

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@ai6yr so that’s like, five sets these days, right?
@falxcerebri @ai6yr Exactly! My grandkids drop 100s of dollars at a time for those things!

@EllenInEdmonton @falxcerebri @ai6yr I seriously can't understand it. They make these kits that are $100+ each (I guess getting up to 200 these days?) and they only make one single thing.

I hate to drop the "when I was young" line, but seriously, when I was a kid the expensive set was a big bucket full of standard Lego bricks and you made whatever the heck you wanted to. And it didn't cost anywhere near to that much. (I have no idea what it cost, but I do know my parents wouldn't even have thought about $100+)

I mean, a frigging bucket. How is anyone ok with getting a small box with quite a lot of them consisting of pieces you can't really do much else with?

I feel like somewhere along the way people forgot what was even the point of Legos. I don't even get the point of a kit

@nazokiyoubinbou Gen X here: I don’t think I would have even played with Lego back then if it only came in the kit-form we see nowadays.

@CAWguy Good point. I think I wouldn't have either. You put it together and you're done. What's the point anymore?

But I guess people do enjoy making actual models from kits. Then again, those are much nicer looking and develop skills more.