So um timeline of events for why the video took a while to release - Script written, thrown out and re written like twice - Final Segment alone was re written like 6 times - video was originally just 10 min until I couldn’t stop talking - literally lost the first edit of the video - silent hill 2 releasing
Something else I appreciate about jangbricks is that he doesn’t play into FOMO. He doesn’t try to be first to review. Regardless of if he is im still watching his review before I buy a set.
He still buys a ton of sets that dont really mean much to him at the end of the day, contributing to overconsumption culture, and his review style is the most basic clinically boring you will see on the platform. The review site with white void background levels of boring. In fact, he is among the veteran Lego review channels, so he definitely inspired other "here is the product" review channels as a result.
@@Bionickpunk is basic really a bad thing though? I mean I see what you mean but he's thorough and at the end of the day I think that's what the most important part of a review is
The recent bricklink designer programme, I think is the most egregious use of FOMO used by Lego. Hearing that a set was sold out forever in just 3 hours is nuts. I do wonder how many people, after buying the set. Truly regret their purchase?
So many people already missed out. I spent my college loan money on Lego in 1986. Best choice I made then. I grew up in an era where if you missed it - it was virtually impossible to find it again (no internet). And yet there was never the fomo that people have today. I get tickled seeing people talk about this or rare sets as I remember most of them sitting in clearance shelves - like the original castle theme - which I found sets from 1984 still on clearance into the 90s. Most people missed those days. Good times. I rarely paid full price for a Lego set until I started TH-cam. You are not wrong about your observations
Woah crazy to see you here, collecting Lego has definitely become more of a new problem now a days compared to the time period you grew up in. The mere thought of a set sitting in clearance for a decade in todays world is a fever dream at best
The finality of LEGO sets retiring before the internet age makes me think of the drowning rat experiment. The internet gives people just enough hope that they’ll obtain a LEGO set they’ve always wanted that they will never stop looking for it. If there was never that sort of hope, people would just move on with their lives, not tortured by what could be.
I cannot express the amount of disdain and disgust I have towards anyone whose TH-cam career has just been “buying $5k of Lego on launch day”. All it does is promote overconsumption and fomo for kids
Most Lego TH-cam review channels are like that, its honestly sad. You have the occasional Slugger and Cheese Studios that have genuine passion for the building toy, but the rest are just "here is the product, let me tell you about product, get excited (or not) for next product".
Sometimes I decide to wait for an item, then I forget about it; and BAM by the time I remember about it the item is retire, out of stock and the scalpers are waiting for me.
I live in a major city in the USA and yet somehow the distribution is so bad near me that sets don't show up in stores until weeks or even months after the official release date. This is especially bad for cmfs that only have a release of a couple months instead of years. The D&D cmf that came out on September 1 wasn't on Target shelves until literally *today* (Oct 15). Obviously I can't buy them online since there's a major risk of duplicates without the option of scanning, but I was seriously considering just buying the complete set from Bricklink at a markup since it was starting to feel like they'd never actually show up.
I turned 29 this year. I've been collecting LEGO and action figures for 10 years now, ever since I got a job and could afford them for myself outside of gifts from family and friends. I've spent thousands of dollars building my collection and have now come to the realization that I'm done. While pricing and space are issues, I've kind of just come to terms that I get the set/figure and either keep in in the box until I have the time or space to open it which can take months to years. If that's what I'm doing with my collection, do I even care anymore? What's the difference if I have a set collecting dust in my closet versus just never getting it to begin with? The difference being that I can use that unspent money on venturing out for new experiences. I've had my fun with collecting but now I'm done and want to spend that money on new experiences. FOMO isn't hitting me anymore because I just stopped caring. If I really want something, I know I'll be able to get it in the future, even if it's at an inflated price. But also, I can be content with never owning it. I definitely think shopping addictions aren't really taken seriously when they should be. Spending money for the sake of spending money is not a healthy mindset to have. It's something that I'm working on and so I hope if anyone else out there may be feeling the same, you can overcome it as well.
For me FOMO is something that hits but more just encourages me to find the best deal on online shopping (like with finding a model kit I’ve been hunting for a while and only to see it for 30 bucks after 2 years it came out)
I am an experienced collector of a LOT and very different things like: taxidermy, insects, scientific books, Hot Toys and Sideshow 1/6 Star Wars, Minecraft figures, Dinosaur figures, animal figures of specific brands, trains, stones, lots of fossils, clothes, figures from movies and series, plane models, ship models, submarine models, airship models, VHS, DVDs, Games, board games, toys, etc. etc. I am experienced with the prices. I sold and bought. I hunt some of the stuff by my own, like the fossils. As a kid in the 2000s and early 2010s I also collected Lego and Lego SW. I collect for joy(!), I collect because of passion. Pure passion. I am genuinely interested in certain subjects that the stuff I collect fits into. It started with the interest in the subject! Not with the objects. And not with the prices. I don‘t see „Lego collecters“ as real collecters. It’s because they forgot the charm of Lego and what it should mean. If you are obsessed with detailed printings, why not getting Hot Toys instead of Lego. If it‘s that detailed, it‘s Lego no more. Some buy only for investment (it‘s actually a bad investment). They do not value the Lego and what it represents, they only value the price tags of the figures! They contribute to the problem that Lego should be for kids and that companies‘s products are still bought although having unjustifiable price tags from the beginning on. It‘s like collecting Nike shoes that are way overpriced and overshadowed by every proper leather well welted men‘s dress shoe. Or being obsessed with designer fragrances. Or just consuming without thinking and without passion for the subject itself. It‘s only about the objects and especially price tags! Collecting should not be something purely materialistic. Every real collector knows that.
I am only talking about a certain type of collector of Lego btw. These types exist almost everywhere else too. For example in the collecting of coins, of autographs, etc.
Thank you for saying this - it annoys me that people like MandR complain about the clone accuracy when they are Lego, they are not meant for accuracy just look at their proportions, buy black series or something if you like accuracy so much.
This comment is incredible! It gave me some insight into collecting I never considered before. The part about it not being solely about material is fascinating.
This doesn't stop FOMO... If any1 wants to have the joy of creating a MOCs with parts in a set, they still want that set. The joy of having ALL the SpaceMans is definately an issue. It falls InTo both an ownership issue, and less so a utility thing for people wanting to design MOCs with certain colors.
LEGO knows how to take advantage of FOMO, not only for the "need to have the set". There's a DarkRed BoatHull, and lime HoodPiece I want, not just for the reason if saying I have it. I want thise stupidly rare parts to create my iwn things with.
My bionicle 'tism activated and I have to correct you on some details. Bionicle was cancelled near the end of 2009 with it only getting one final sendoff wave in 2010 due to people on the inside protesting against lego execs. We never got an exact reason as to why it was axed, but it was most likely a mix between crappy quality control of pieces after 2006, lego wanting to explore new ideas for action figure sets and also a general decline in sales. That being said you're 100% correct about the depressing demise of g2 bionicle. G2 was such a different interpretation of the classic bionicle that there was no shot of the hardcore g1 fans ever fully being into it. And since the ip itself is kind of based on early 2000s nostalgia, most young kids didn't really find it interesting. (Also it was imo just less interesing and expermental than g1 lol)
G2 had other issues too. Like, many, and I mean many people who grew up with Bionicle and went into their Lego Dark Age after the cancellation, learnt about Bionicle G2 only at around it's third wave. There was no marketing for it, and you wouldn't find out about it if you weren't already in Lego community or browsing Toy alley, neither of which you do in your Dark Age. And since there was barely any marketing for it, kids also wouldn't get into the theme, especially when Star Wars figures were right there. G2 was both mismanaged, AS WELL as it had its demand overestimated. There were multiple reasons as to why it failed, not just that fans didn't liked it. Some didn't, some didn't knew about it, and some were still too young to purchase significant amount of sets, still only entering into adulthood
Man just like you, I wanted to sell my soul just to get the whole Jurassic World Lego Line when it came out. I I actually saw my local toysrus stock them once and thought it would be there when I come back with money. Never ended up getting any of them. It was painful but eventually I got over it when more Jurassic movies were coming and I decided that the next movie, I would get them all. I only managed to collect the entirety of the 3Oth anniversary line after saving money since 2018. Here I thought my goal was complete, get one full line and be satisfied. Until I realised I missed out on sets that had species that never got made again or are brand new lego the chaos theory set with the stegosaurus and an old fallen kingdom set with the galliminus. Man I hope the next Jurassic movie sets have new dinos or at least the galli. I need it so bad!
I get stock varies by region, but as an action figure collector in addition to Lego, I think Lego is probably the easiest collectible to obtain. Most action figures have a shelf life of only a few months, compared to 1.5-2 years for Lego. There’s often only one chance to preorder and if you miss that preorder it’s gone forever. High demand figures, store exclusives, and chases that aren’t preorderable often never even make it onto shelves because scalpers get them from the back of the store. With the exception of the Bricklink Designer Program, GWPs, and the occasional VIP point exclusive, Lego sets are almost never out of stock for more than a month before becoming readily available again before they retire. Obviously it sucks if you decide you want a set after it retires and have to pay aftermarket prices, but compared to other collectibles where there’s often no clear release day, preorder window, availability online or in store, Lego is easy to get.
I traded a ton of old lego for a sealed in bag Darth Revan mini figure. I have no remorse over that. Yet I also easily pawned off my phase 1 captain rex and some other figures for the sake of affording Rivendell. No regrets, but it's just interesting. When I got Rivendell I thought it would be silly to ever spend tons of money on a single figure. A few months later, I found myself collecting Revan. It's a funny thing. I don't have remorse over it, but value is just that... a funny thing.
This was a very interesting video, and I enjoyed it very much! :D In my experience I definitely have Fomo but not to a specific set, but a specific build. (for example) if three different aftermarket creators sell the same tank I keep an eye on all three so I have a higher chance of purchasing the model I want. They may have different proportions but at the end of the day it's the same model for me. :)
Thank you for calling out the failed bionicle relaunch. I’m so tired of seeing people talk about how much better bionicle was and how it needs to come back. And they gloss over the fact it did come back. And no one bought it
Although I still buy some Lego stuff, “some” being too much. The FOMO has basically disappeared because of the prices. I thought you did a good job on your video, and at the end of the day what people need to realize is it’s just a piece of plastic.
Lego got to overpriced for its britches and with the growing fomo + scalpers it just got to exhausting for me. Now I mostly only buy prequel sets every once and a while
I'm an avid collector, and I too have suffered from FOMO. I've made some "in the moment" purchases that I regret. This one lego seinfeld set I have is currently rotting away as it lays abandoned in a storage box. My most recent and shameful act was buying ALL of the DnD cmfs. I sat there in silence and shame thinking to myself "Why the fuck did i get these things I only wanted the dragon". This was a learning opportunity that made me rethink what I was doing. I now focus on buying sets I *Know* will provide value to me personally like Transformers and Batman. I'm not getting them for the sake of having them, I want to get them because I *know* that I want it and *know* will look cool displayed on my shelf. I'm sure I'm probably preaching to the choir with this take.
It’s sad that you mentioned Bakugan without at least mentioning that Bakugan has an identity crisis on what should it be, maybe do a video on that issue apart from the obvious
This video sort of came at a perfect time. Both the Shadowbox and UCS Tumblr are rumored to retire in 2 months and FOMO was the only thing really pushing me to try and get either. I came to the conclusion that the Tumblr (while gorgeous) is way too out of scale for its minifigs that it breaks any immersion and I'm not really a fan of Keaton Batman for the Shadowbox. I've never seen his films. Instead I opted into scouting a few retired The Batman and Dark Knight sets. They were of course marked up but still cheaper than my previous prospects. I feel more satisfied with my choices, and just pray for a Dark Knight Trilogy shadowbox-like set. That! Would be a must buy for me!
I started out with lego one day. But I never got back into it. I keep delving deep into different interests and spending all my money on it. My current thing is genuine ww2 militaria and I will not stop anytime soon. All this stuff is 80 years old, and super one of a kind. The greatest feeling of fomo I have ever felt
I feel the part about buying a set for just one part as an adult. I bought the red tornado sonic set to go with my gaming display and didn't even care about the lab part of it, just the badnik and the plane, as a kid I would have bought it for the play features, but now it's just the figures and one aspect of the buildable part
14:00 okay, Price per Piece is often used incorrectly. It is a solid metric to use, but just like when you're trying to figure out how much water you need to fill your pool, you need more than just the width of it. You may want to look at PPP combined with how substantial the build is, how substantial it feels, how fun it is to build and to play with, as well as how good it looks and how many minifigs are included. You may also look at prints/stickers if included, as well as rare, interesting or useful pieces IF all previous metrics aren't giving you clear outcome. But it is not a metric you want to use alone. And I see so many people either use it as end all be all, or dismiss whatsoever.
Never have difficulty finding sets. It's trying to predict when there will be a sale or if there will be a sale at ll that's hard. Or trying to find out if a figure come back in a cheaper set.
I always did like the dino sets I'm an old head who remembers Lego releasing a lot fewer sets and buying what I wanted wasn't that difficult. Now it's impossible with the flood of $150+ sets and there's a ticking clock as I try to decide what I can buy in the 1-2 year window most sets have. It's like slow-ticking fomo.
I think with LEGO collecting you've got to be satisfied with what you have and make realistic goals to what you'd like to get, and try avoid chasing trends. It also helps if you sell unwanted stuff or sets you've invested in to help fund the hobby!
I’ve gotten really into Gunpla over the past few years and I really like that they re-release old model kits all the time. FOMO is definitely still there, especially around limited release p-bandai items, but at least for mainstream releases I know there’s a good chance I’ll be able to get something I want if I wait a while.
FOMO is definitely still there with gunpla even with restocks, cause who knows when that particular kit will get its restock, and the restocks are usually soled in advanced so you better pre-order right when the news hits.
Model kit manufacturers have known for decades that having the most popular vehicles and such ALWAYS available via reprints is super great for sales. You like Gundam? All the popular ones available right now. WW2 tanks and planes? You can buy a corsair and a tiger 1 WHENEVER you want. No scummy fomo tactics or retiring sets just to remake rhem worse. Older moulds are cheaper and new kits are more expensive but are worth it quality wise. Lets not even mention that model kits are far far cheaper and more accurate. Lego's tactics are so behind and predatory it's sad.
I wouldn't know that since their restocks have never recovered to pre-Covid period. Look at hobby link Japan and they almost never have things in stock, same with other shops.
@@Bionickpunk I don't recommend buying from HobbyLink but most stores are well stocked or awaiting restocks. USA Gundam Store, GalacticToys, and Gundamplanet to name a few. HLJ has super expensive shipping, if you're in the US there's far better options. If HLJ is your only option just backorder stuff it'll be fulfilled eventually.
@@3xasfast811 Thats all fine if you live in the US, I dont. US model kit prices are way higher than if I bought them directly from Japan, so there is no real reason to get them from there cause I will still have to wait months for shipment anyways and cost of shipment is actually lower from me to get from Japan than from the US.
@@Bionickpunk Then backordering is your friend. They'll fulfill orders eventually HLJ just has a ton of customers so it's hard for them to meet demand. It's why I avoid them usually.
@@3xasfast811 In general I got most of the HG model kits that I wanted back when I got them right before the pandemic ruined the restock market. I only have a desire to get a few MGs but who knows when those will restock. It doesnt help that Bandai's restock calendar site is a pain to deal with since they dont translate anything and almost no one reports on restock schedules on a consistent basis.
Happened to me with the 501st battle pack from last year I wanted to buy it so bad but it was very expensive and I have to forget it and rn there's still tons of them and no one is buying them and as the time passes they're getting cheaper
Where I live there are no dedicated Lego stores. The idea if pick a part sounds really foreign to me, but something I'd love to see. Sure I can krder them online... But well... Shipping costs, also how am I supposed to know what I want? I'd love to test out parts, but of course there is Lego Studio but I have tried it before, but without the tactile element and the rather inconvenient and sluggish way of munipulating objects it's just a pain in tbe ass which stifles my creativity. It wouldn't be as bad if Lego didn't just stop making specific parts, sure there is bricklinks, you theoretically can obtain the set you want from eons ago but the prices are greatly knflated over their original cost simply because bricklinks or ESPECIALLY the online pick a part. I had a thought today... Lego would be so much better if we had replicators from Star Trek. We would never have or experiance FOMO ever again, and pur creativity could truely be unlimited! Sad we don't live in... Star Trek. Also why no Star Trek theme? It's rather odd when you think about all of the other things which have lego themes.
22:40 Okay, regarding minifigs... I absolutely love minifigs. Always have. Whenever I have something built, i need to have that thing populated. Ever since I was a kid, having a castle or house or spaceship not populated to the brim by minifigs made me feel weird. I just aesthetically prefer to have my Star Wars diorama filled with clones and droids in every small space you can see, my castle needs to have at least two someones in each room and tower. I want people to look into the window and see minifig face staring at them. But I don't particularly care about named minifigs in sets. Yes, i will get them if they're affordable, and if minifig is cool, I'll try to get it. But I'm not particularly obsessed with getting every single one. I want the cool ones, i want the useful ones. I don't want to sit on pile of minifigs I can't use, i want them appreciated. Because I love this hobby. I want people to look at whatever i have on display and appreciate both build and whole scene. What i wanted to say is that different people have different tastes and likings. I can understand if someone just wants to get minifigs now just in case because they're collecting. But not everyone who wants minifigs and looks at them as big part of set is a collector or skalpel. Some of us simply want to have something to populate our builds. Because what's the point of having empty castle on shelf?
7:36 yeah I had never waited for clearance that long for the 2019 falcon, and now there’s two falcons on the shelves at the same time, it’s like blasphemy
my FOMO having self made me buy the Ninja Team Combo Vehicle. for those not aware, it's a recent Ninjago release that is like $30+ overpriced all for 1 minifigure that has 1 exclusive piece
This happens when people think of buying the product as the experience and not building it or having fun with it, it's easier to fight this in war gaming/painting modeling kits because you can tell yourself that painting and building is the hobby, not buying, buying is just consumerism. But with Lego ? You build it and then what ? The process usually dont take that long and you have instructions all the time to help, only trying to make new stuff with the stuff you have is fun, unless you have a children to play with or use your legos to do Dungeons and Dragons and i think that is the problem with lego, they lost their core experience and changed it to consumerism.
As a fan but also collector of Lego I totally agree with the what you said in your video. My first introduction to lego when I was grouping up was lego Agents. Honestly, I buy lego for the playability and fun that it provides and not solely for the minfigures or the specific theme.
RR Slugger, JangBricks, and a handful of others are the only Lego TH-camrs I can actually stomach to watch anymore. FOMO memberberries bullshit from Lego in the last ten years has really turned me off from buying new production sets. I mainly collect Lego from before 2002 or so because honestly that’s when Lego fell wayyyyyyyyyyy off. From switching from only using yellow skin tones to the deluge of licensed themes over the next 21 years. Things like Disney buying out Lucasfilm are definitely to blame. With their acquisition of the Star Wars IP, they brought with them a horde of NPC consoomers and their grifter herders. MANDR type people. Lego used to keep sets on shelves for YEARS, close to a decade in a few cases. But as their market shifted from actual children to adults with the brains of children, they just lost themselves. Even the normal retail sets for children nowadays have the collector’s market factored into them. This is less extreme with in house themes, like City/Ninjago/etc but I would argue it is the MAIN factor of the majority of sets within licensed themes released today. They know exactly what they’re doing. It’s actually fucking maddening. Lego has been inflating their prices because they know most of the morons that follow them will gladly continue to pay for it. It’s actually disgusting, and we gotta hold ourselves accountable. Obviously this is not just a problem of The Lego Group, but of society as a whole. TLG is just a casualty.
Except JangBricks contributes to the overconsumption culture that plagues other TH-camrs, he is often the creator to go to for set reviews cause he gets most of the sets and does the reviews in the most boring clinical way possible. He is basically those set review sites in video format. Slugger is indeed different, he doesnt chase any current Lego fab, he does his own thing and if there is a set he likes he will get it and do a review on it with his own spin and atmosphere. Plus it helps he doesnt oversaturate his own channel with videos, so each new one feels special. Jang has like 3-4 channels and reviews almost every week, its exhausting.
the lego theme i grew up with that has a cult following is lego bionicle. specifically the reboot. so that, hero factory, and nexo knights were my favorite themes as a kid, and still are. i am so glad that i grew up with these understated themes personally as most liscenced themes dont really cut it for me. except for lego transformers and lego mario that is.
I'd be interested in watching a video of your thoughts on the Black Series. I've had a pretty positive experience collecting them personally, but I only started this year, so I'd be interested in hearing your experiences with them and what the state of the hobby was back when you collected them.
Ever since Lego killed Bionicle twice and constraction build system, I have lost interest in buying their sets. None of them give me the same satisfaction because either the set is expensive, has limited articulation, or just looks bad.
Yea especially at these prices. I can't even force myself to be hyped for a 300 dollar licensed "adult" model that is the same size as 100 dollar sets back in the day when I could just but the older sets or literally anything else.
I have a mix of fomo and fobo. I started this year during may the 4th. I noticed the toy chain here has sets on a discount at release. Sometimes a big discount but usually a small one. But they dont offer a discount on all sets all the time. So fobo, especially when the deal is over is a real thing. But I do save my money untill I see a good deal for most sets
I gotta say the FOMO is WAY more crazy in the Transformers fandom (I collect Lego too), like Hasbro can not for the life of them try to produce enough of a character they KNOW is going to sell out instantly. Hasbro is also bad with black series and marvel legends but at least you usually have options by way of past versions, with Transformers you have to pray the new version of a character that hasn’t gotten a toy in 13 years is bad because if it’s good you’ll never get your hands on it for under 4x retail (worse yet when it’s something like a Walmart exclusive). At least Lego does do a good job at consistently stocking an item a little bit after release (I’m looking at you Speed Champions Nissan Skyline)
This video was honestly a really nice reality check, especially with the recent leaks, and I'm thankful for that. Fomo, and as you already pointed, is CRAZY in the customs side of the Lego community and is hella exploited. That really made me reflect upon my investment in that community and my overall investment in Lego
here's a tip, if you're looking for a set that just retired, check your local Barnes and Noble, they have sets and not a lot of people buy Legos there, found some sets that had retired 6 months prior at mine, pretty sure they still have the Seinfeld set lol
The only Lego stuff I tend to grab nowadays is parts for mini builds (akin to those Star Wars polybag vehicles) cause I'm a huge fan of miniature scale stuff. Those tend to be a great deal for me cause I can get a good amount of ships worth of parts for a great price, compared to the larger sets. The only big set I plan on getting is that X-Wing VS TIE Fighter dual set, where the ships can be interchanged by the fuselages and wings. After that, nothing else really catches my eye, save for the MIDI ship builds, but even those are a bit much.
I understand retiring a set. But I still think some stuff needs to be available or made so again. Like redesigning it. As long as it isn’t dumb redesign that takes away functionality or appeal. Like I understand they can’t always have a lego X Wing 24/7 but I swear the new X Wings don’t look as good as the old.
I've hacked the system: 2nd hand market. I've bought over 250€ worth of lego for 45. I don't care about boxes and booklets, I care about the bricks. I usually buy technic or City so the availability is always plenty ;)
Usually if it is a new battle pack or a clone themed set below $50, I want to buy it as soon as I see it. I remember when the 501st battle pack (the 2020 one), I bought as many as I could and I didn't regret the mass purchases of said set from 2020 to 2022. I felt this exhilarating from buying the sets and not letting anything slow me down or make me think otherwise.
Hey if you do a video on the black series, could you also look into the power rangers lighting collection? Seeing both lines fall at the same time is fairly interesting
I buy an entire collection of lego speed champions every year. Fortunately, there are not dozens upon dozens of sets for this theme and most are pretty cheap, too. Then I buy some star wars from time to time, but because of space issues, mostly minifigures.
I'm a massive fan of DC and as such really love the lego DC sets, when I was younger I never really got to get a lot of the DC sets lego made cause I was a small child with no money. but now that i've got a job I can finally buy the old sets ive always wanted to get and it feels great finally getting to own and build these sets i've always wanted. even if they're twice as expensive
Something I'd love to hear more on is your take on Lego's GWP's. I had planned on buying Barad Dur, but because of the GWP I stayed up till midnight to ensure I got the Fell Beast. Looking back, it's not as great of a GWP. I still would have gotten Barad Dur, so it's nice to have the GWP too, but still. It's a funny thing...
I find when I miss out on a set is that there’s already so many sets that I’m interested and that there’s some that I forgot even though I am very interested in and that’s when I miss out on it and also that I don’t have all the money in the world
So um timeline of events for why the video took a while to release
- Script written, thrown out and re written like twice
- Final Segment alone was re written like 6 times
- video was originally just 10 min until I couldn’t stop talking
- literally lost the first edit of the video
- silent hill 2 releasing
Something else I appreciate about jangbricks is that he doesn’t play into FOMO. He doesn’t try to be first to review. Regardless of if he is im still watching his review before I buy a set.
Him swearing off the X-Jet based on just it's price is (no pun intended) incredibly based.
@@loran3860Same with the UCS Sail Barge, that one especially so since he saw ROTJ in theaters as a kid.
He still buys a ton of sets that dont really mean much to him at the end of the day, contributing to overconsumption culture, and his review style is the most basic clinically boring you will see on the platform. The review site with white void background levels of boring. In fact, he is among the veteran Lego review channels, so he definitely inspired other "here is the product" review channels as a result.
Every hero factory set i planed buying i saw his videos before. He is just really honest
@@Bionickpunk is basic really a bad thing though? I mean I see what you mean but he's thorough and at the end of the day I think that's what the most important part of a review is
Wasn’t going to watch this video, but I didn’t want to miss out
The recent bricklink designer programme, I think is the most egregious use of FOMO used by Lego. Hearing that a set was sold out forever in just 3 hours is nuts. I do wonder how many people, after buying the set. Truly regret their purchase?
Usually those sets resell for more. So probably none
FINALLY. I HAVE WAITED YEARS FOR A NEW LEGO VIDEO
Me too dawg, me too.
@@dr.roboto3355 sad when it is the one of those one video for years again 😢😢😢😢
So many people already missed out. I spent my college loan money on Lego in 1986. Best choice I made then. I grew up in an era where if you missed it - it was virtually impossible to find it again (no internet). And yet there was never the fomo that people have today. I get tickled seeing people talk about this or rare sets as I remember most of them sitting in clearance shelves - like the original castle theme - which I found sets from 1984 still on clearance into the 90s. Most people missed those days. Good times. I rarely paid full price for a Lego set until I started TH-cam. You are not wrong about your observations
"Spent my college loan money on lego" That's the most based course of action i've ever heard.
Woah crazy to see you here, collecting Lego has definitely become more of a new problem now a days compared to the time period you grew up in. The mere thought of a set sitting in clearance for a decade in todays world is a fever dream at best
The finality of LEGO sets retiring before the internet age makes me think of the drowning rat experiment. The internet gives people just enough hope that they’ll obtain a LEGO set they’ve always wanted that they will never stop looking for it. If there was never that sort of hope, people would just move on with their lives, not tortured by what could be.
I cannot express the amount of disdain and disgust I have towards anyone whose TH-cam career has just been “buying $5k of Lego on launch day”.
All it does is promote overconsumption and fomo for kids
Most Lego TH-cam review channels are like that, its honestly sad. You have the occasional Slugger and Cheese Studios that have genuine passion for the building toy, but the rest are just "here is the product, let me tell you about product, get excited (or not) for next product".
Sometimes I decide to wait for an item, then I forget about it; and BAM by the time I remember about it the item is retire, out of stock and the scalpers are waiting for me.
Oh no they turned him into a marketable plushie
I’m 28 and still collecting legos. It brings me a sense of nostalgia. Man I miss my childhood.
that thumbnail is crisp, downright pristine
Battlefield/Lego fans is such a specific niche that I am glad to be a part of
I was born in 1998 and this is hella true. Till this day I have this consumerist brain and will probably die like this.
I live in a major city in the USA and yet somehow the distribution is so bad near me that sets don't show up in stores until weeks or even months after the official release date. This is especially bad for cmfs that only have a release of a couple months instead of years. The D&D cmf that came out on September 1 wasn't on Target shelves until literally *today* (Oct 15). Obviously I can't buy them online since there's a major risk of duplicates without the option of scanning, but I was seriously considering just buying the complete set from Bricklink at a markup since it was starting to feel like they'd never actually show up.
I turned 29 this year. I've been collecting LEGO and action figures for 10 years now, ever since I got a job and could afford them for myself outside of gifts from family and friends. I've spent thousands of dollars building my collection and have now come to the realization that I'm done. While pricing and space are issues, I've kind of just come to terms that I get the set/figure and either keep in in the box until I have the time or space to open it which can take months to years. If that's what I'm doing with my collection, do I even care anymore? What's the difference if I have a set collecting dust in my closet versus just never getting it to begin with? The difference being that I can use that unspent money on venturing out for new experiences. I've had my fun with collecting but now I'm done and want to spend that money on new experiences. FOMO isn't hitting me anymore because I just stopped caring. If I really want something, I know I'll be able to get it in the future, even if it's at an inflated price. But also, I can be content with never owning it. I definitely think shopping addictions aren't really taken seriously when they should be. Spending money for the sake of spending money is not a healthy mindset to have. It's something that I'm working on and so I hope if anyone else out there may be feeling the same, you can overcome it as well.
For me FOMO is something that hits but more just encourages me to find the best deal on online shopping (like with finding a model kit I’ve been hunting for a while and only to see it for 30 bucks after 2 years it came out)
I am an experienced collector of a LOT and very different things like: taxidermy, insects, scientific books, Hot Toys and Sideshow 1/6 Star Wars, Minecraft figures, Dinosaur figures, animal figures of specific brands, trains, stones, lots of fossils, clothes, figures from movies and series, plane models, ship models, submarine models, airship models, VHS, DVDs, Games, board games, toys, etc. etc.
I am experienced with the prices. I sold and bought. I hunt some of the stuff by my own, like the fossils. As a kid in the 2000s and early 2010s I also collected Lego and Lego SW.
I collect for joy(!), I collect because of passion. Pure passion. I am genuinely interested in certain subjects that the stuff I collect fits into. It started with the interest in the subject! Not with the objects. And not with the prices.
I don‘t see „Lego collecters“ as real collecters. It’s because they forgot the charm of Lego and what it should mean. If you are obsessed with detailed printings, why not getting Hot Toys instead of Lego. If it‘s that detailed, it‘s Lego no more. Some buy only for investment (it‘s actually a bad investment). They do not value the Lego and what it represents, they only value the price tags of the figures! They contribute to the problem that Lego should be for kids and that companies‘s products are still bought although having unjustifiable price tags from the beginning on. It‘s like collecting Nike shoes that are way overpriced and overshadowed by every proper leather well welted men‘s dress shoe. Or being obsessed with designer fragrances. Or just consuming without thinking and without passion for the subject itself. It‘s only about the objects and especially price tags! Collecting should not be something purely materialistic. Every real collector knows that.
I am only talking about a certain type of collector of Lego btw. These types exist almost everywhere else too. For example in the collecting of coins, of autographs, etc.
Thank you for saying this - it annoys me that people like MandR complain about the clone accuracy when they are Lego, they are not meant for accuracy just look at their proportions, buy black series or something if you like accuracy so much.
This comment is incredible! It gave me some insight into collecting I never considered before. The part about it not being solely about material is fascinating.
This doesn't stop FOMO... If any1 wants to have the joy of creating a MOCs with parts in a set, they still want that set. The joy of having ALL the SpaceMans is definately an issue. It falls InTo both an ownership issue, and less so a utility thing for people wanting to design MOCs with certain colors.
LEGO knows how to take advantage of FOMO, not only for the "need to have the set". There's a DarkRed BoatHull, and lime HoodPiece I want, not just for the reason if saying I have it. I want thise stupidly rare parts to create my iwn things with.
I remember roboraptor. I had one, and wished I had a second one, and when I woke the next day their was another one under my pillow
I really liked this video, the chill non-rant style and the funny editing, with the subtle nods and hints thrown inbetween sentences.
My bionicle 'tism activated and I have to correct you on some details. Bionicle was cancelled near the end of 2009 with it only getting one final sendoff wave in 2010 due to people on the inside protesting against lego execs. We never got an exact reason as to why it was axed, but it was most likely a mix between crappy quality control of pieces after 2006, lego wanting to explore new ideas for action figure sets and also a general decline in sales.
That being said you're 100% correct about the depressing demise of g2 bionicle. G2 was such a different interpretation of the classic bionicle that there was no shot of the hardcore g1 fans ever fully being into it. And since the ip itself is kind of based on early 2000s nostalgia, most young kids didn't really find it interesting. (Also it was imo just less interesing and expermental than g1 lol)
G2 had other issues too. Like, many, and I mean many people who grew up with Bionicle and went into their Lego Dark Age after the cancellation, learnt about Bionicle G2 only at around it's third wave. There was no marketing for it, and you wouldn't find out about it if you weren't already in Lego community or browsing Toy alley, neither of which you do in your Dark Age.
And since there was barely any marketing for it, kids also wouldn't get into the theme, especially when Star Wars figures were right there.
G2 was both mismanaged, AS WELL as it had its demand overestimated. There were multiple reasons as to why it failed, not just that fans didn't liked it.
Some didn't, some didn't knew about it, and some were still too young to purchase significant amount of sets, still only entering into adulthood
I miss Gogo's crazy bones... not because of my friends, but because I just liked the way the looked and felt
Man just like you, I wanted to sell my soul just to get the whole Jurassic World Lego Line when it came out. I I actually saw my local toysrus stock them once and thought it would be there when I come back with money. Never ended up getting any of them. It was painful but eventually I got over it when more Jurassic movies were coming and I decided that the next movie, I would get them all. I only managed to collect the entirety of the 3Oth anniversary line after saving money since 2018. Here I thought my goal was complete, get one full line and be satisfied.
Until I realised I missed out on sets that had species that never got made again or are brand new lego the chaos theory set with the stegosaurus and an old fallen kingdom set with the galliminus. Man I hope the next Jurassic movie sets have new dinos or at least the galli. I need it so bad!
I get stock varies by region, but as an action figure collector in addition to Lego, I think Lego is probably the easiest collectible to obtain. Most action figures have a shelf life of only a few months, compared to 1.5-2 years for Lego. There’s often only one chance to preorder and if you miss that preorder it’s gone forever. High demand figures, store exclusives, and chases that aren’t preorderable often never even make it onto shelves because scalpers get them from the back of the store. With the exception of the Bricklink Designer Program, GWPs, and the occasional VIP point exclusive, Lego sets are almost never out of stock for more than a month before becoming readily available again before they retire. Obviously it sucks if you decide you want a set after it retires and have to pay aftermarket prices, but compared to other collectibles where there’s often no clear release day, preorder window, availability online or in store, Lego is easy to get.
I cannot wait for a Lego set because I’m horribly impatient
1.2k in the red is wild
I traded a ton of old lego for a sealed in bag Darth Revan mini figure. I have no remorse over that. Yet I also easily pawned off my phase 1 captain rex and some other figures for the sake of affording Rivendell. No regrets, but it's just interesting.
When I got Rivendell I thought it would be silly to ever spend tons of money on a single figure.
A few months later, I found myself collecting Revan. It's a funny thing. I don't have remorse over it, but value is just that... a funny thing.
Babe wake up. Cosmonaut uploaded video about Lego once again. Also babe I can’t wait when he will upload Christmas edition.
Christmas edition? Oh you mean the backgrounds lol
Your avatar convinced me to read Girl’s Last Tour last month so thank you for that
The brainwashing is working
This was a very interesting video, and I enjoyed it very much! :D
In my experience I definitely have Fomo but not to a specific set, but a specific build.
(for example) if three different aftermarket creators sell the same tank I keep an eye on all three so I have a higher chance of purchasing the model I want.
They may have different proportions but at the end of the day it's the same model for me. :)
Thank you for calling out the failed bionicle relaunch. I’m so tired of seeing people talk about how much better bionicle was and how it needs to come back. And they gloss over the fact it did come back. And no one bought it
Never listen to the fans, they don't know what they want; Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.
Dude you should do a collection video or a video on what themes/sets you grew up with as a kid
Hmm 'the cosmonaut' or 'Vsauce' , lego or why we wear clothes. I see a clear winner.
Although I still buy some Lego stuff, “some” being too much. The FOMO has basically disappeared because of the prices. I thought you did a good job on your video, and at the end of the day what people need to realize is it’s just a piece of plastic.
Lego got to overpriced for its britches and with the growing fomo + scalpers it just got to exhausting for me. Now I mostly only buy prequel sets every once and a while
That destiny snippet hits hard for me. I grinded for that gun so i could craft it and i don't even use it much lmao.
I'm an avid collector, and I too have suffered from FOMO. I've made some "in the moment" purchases that I regret. This one lego seinfeld set I have is currently rotting away as it lays abandoned in a storage box. My most recent and shameful act was buying ALL of the DnD cmfs. I sat there in silence and shame thinking to myself "Why the fuck did i get these things I only wanted the dragon". This was a learning opportunity that made me rethink what I was doing. I now focus on buying sets I *Know* will provide value to me personally like Transformers and Batman. I'm not getting them for the sake of having them, I want to get them because I *know* that I want it and *know* will look cool displayed on my shelf. I'm sure I'm probably preaching to the choir with this take.
GURA SANG AT A BASEBALL GAME!? bro that's wild. Proof we live in the a good timeline
But we lost Ame so what’s even the point
It’s sad that you mentioned Bakugan without at least mentioning that Bakugan has an identity crisis on what should it be, maybe do a video on that issue apart from the obvious
This video sort of came at a perfect time. Both the Shadowbox and UCS Tumblr are rumored to retire in 2 months and FOMO was the only thing really pushing me to try and get either. I came to the conclusion that the Tumblr (while gorgeous) is way too out of scale for its minifigs that it breaks any immersion and I'm not really a fan of Keaton Batman for the Shadowbox. I've never seen his films. Instead I opted into scouting a few retired The Batman and Dark Knight sets. They were of course marked up but still cheaper than my previous prospects. I feel more satisfied with my choices, and just pray for a Dark Knight Trilogy shadowbox-like set. That! Would be a must buy for me!
traded my deadpool minifig for a bakugan back in the day 🙃
I started out with lego one day. But I never got back into it. I keep delving deep into different interests and spending all my money on it. My current thing is genuine ww2 militaria and I will not stop anytime soon. All this stuff is 80 years old, and super one of a kind. The greatest feeling of fomo I have ever felt
0:58 these are some bad ass clone wars kids helmets bro Dame🤯
id love to see a video with your thoughts on the black series tbh
That intro of u not getting the turbo tank was so sad. I feel bad for u
Dude made a lego video before the long awaited lego video
I feel the part about buying a set for just one part as an adult. I bought the red tornado sonic set to go with my gaming display and didn't even care about the lab part of it, just the badnik and the plane, as a kid I would have bought it for the play features, but now it's just the figures and one aspect of the buildable part
There's a South Park episode that mocks the trends going and changing for kid's toys, lol
Heck, there's an Arthur episode about it
So happy I stumbled on your account.
14:00 okay, Price per Piece is often used incorrectly. It is a solid metric to use, but just like when you're trying to figure out how much water you need to fill your pool, you need more than just the width of it.
You may want to look at PPP combined with how substantial the build is, how substantial it feels, how fun it is to build and to play with, as well as how good it looks and how many minifigs are included. You may also look at prints/stickers if included, as well as rare, interesting or useful pieces IF all previous metrics aren't giving you clear outcome.
But it is not a metric you want to use alone. And I see so many people either use it as end all be all, or dismiss whatsoever.
Never have difficulty finding sets. It's trying to predict when there will be a sale or if there will be a sale at ll that's hard. Or trying to find out if a figure come back in a cheaper set.
In my country Lego sets never get discount sales, you ether get them when they are in stores or you dont.
Omg hidden side was really underrated.
Cosmonaut is definitely Librarian in disguise. True cinema friend
MAN do I got FOBO when shopping for guitars
I always did like the dino sets
I'm an old head who remembers Lego releasing a lot fewer sets and buying what I wanted wasn't that difficult. Now it's impossible with the flood of $150+ sets and there's a ticking clock as I try to decide what I can buy in the 1-2 year window most sets have. It's like slow-ticking fomo.
I think with LEGO collecting you've got to be satisfied with what you have and make realistic goals to what you'd like to get, and try avoid chasing trends.
It also helps if you sell unwanted stuff or sets you've invested in to help fund the hobby!
I’ve gotten really into Gunpla over the past few years and I really like that they re-release old model kits all the time. FOMO is definitely still there, especially around limited release p-bandai items, but at least for mainstream releases I know there’s a good chance I’ll be able to get something I want if I wait a while.
FOMO is definitely still there with gunpla even with restocks, cause who knows when that particular kit will get its restock, and the restocks are usually soled in advanced so you better pre-order right when the news hits.
Everywhere I go, I find Fortnite. Hell, my Battle Bus set arrived today even. I can’t escape Fortnite no matter what.
Model kit manufacturers have known for decades that having the most popular vehicles and such ALWAYS available via reprints is super great for sales. You like Gundam? All the popular ones available right now. WW2 tanks and planes? You can buy a corsair and a tiger 1 WHENEVER you want. No scummy fomo tactics or retiring sets just to remake rhem worse. Older moulds are cheaper and new kits are more expensive but are worth it quality wise. Lets not even mention that model kits are far far cheaper and more accurate. Lego's tactics are so behind and predatory it's sad.
I wouldn't know that since their restocks have never recovered to pre-Covid period. Look at hobby link Japan and they almost never have things in stock, same with other shops.
@@Bionickpunk I don't recommend buying from HobbyLink but most stores are well stocked or awaiting restocks. USA Gundam Store, GalacticToys, and Gundamplanet to name a few. HLJ has super expensive shipping, if you're in the US there's far better options. If HLJ is your only option just backorder stuff it'll be fulfilled eventually.
@@3xasfast811 Thats all fine if you live in the US, I dont. US model kit prices are way higher than if I bought them directly from Japan, so there is no real reason to get them from there cause I will still have to wait months for shipment anyways and cost of shipment is actually lower from me to get from Japan than from the US.
@@Bionickpunk Then backordering is your friend. They'll fulfill orders eventually HLJ just has a ton of customers so it's hard for them to meet demand. It's why I avoid them usually.
@@3xasfast811 In general I got most of the HG model kits that I wanted back when I got them right before the pandemic ruined the restock market. I only have a desire to get a few MGs but who knows when those will restock. It doesnt help that Bandai's restock calendar site is a pain to deal with since they dont translate anything and almost no one reports on restock schedules on a consistent basis.
Happened to me with the 501st battle pack from last year I wanted to buy it so bad but it was very expensive and I have to forget it and rn there's still tons of them and no one is buying them and as the time passes they're getting cheaper
I bought it for $15 instead of $20 cause I wasn’t rushed but I do need them all of the clones
Where I live there are no dedicated Lego stores. The idea if pick a part sounds really foreign to me, but something I'd love to see. Sure I can krder them online... But well... Shipping costs, also how am I supposed to know what I want? I'd love to test out parts, but of course there is Lego Studio but I have tried it before, but without the tactile element and the rather inconvenient and sluggish way of munipulating objects it's just a pain in tbe ass which stifles my creativity. It wouldn't be as bad if Lego didn't just stop making specific parts, sure there is bricklinks, you theoretically can obtain the set you want from eons ago but the prices are greatly knflated over their original cost simply because bricklinks or ESPECIALLY the online pick a part.
I had a thought today... Lego would be so much better if we had replicators from Star Trek. We would never have or experiance FOMO ever again, and pur creativity could truely be unlimited!
Sad we don't live in... Star Trek. Also why no Star Trek theme? It's rather odd when you think about all of the other things which have lego themes.
22:40 Okay, regarding minifigs...
I absolutely love minifigs. Always have. Whenever I have something built, i need to have that thing populated. Ever since I was a kid, having a castle or house or spaceship not populated to the brim by minifigs made me feel weird.
I just aesthetically prefer to have my Star Wars diorama filled with clones and droids in every small space you can see, my castle needs to have at least two someones in each room and tower. I want people to look into the window and see minifig face staring at them.
But I don't particularly care about named minifigs in sets. Yes, i will get them if they're affordable, and if minifig is cool, I'll try to get it. But I'm not particularly obsessed with getting every single one.
I want the cool ones, i want the useful ones. I don't want to sit on pile of minifigs I can't use, i want them appreciated.
Because I love this hobby. I want people to look at whatever i have on display and appreciate both build and whole scene.
What i wanted to say is that different people have different tastes and likings. I can understand if someone just wants to get minifigs now just in case because they're collecting. But not everyone who wants minifigs and looks at them as big part of set is a collector or skalpel.
Some of us simply want to have something to populate our builds. Because what's the point of having empty castle on shelf?
7:36 yeah I had never waited for clearance that long for the 2019 falcon, and now there’s two falcons on the shelves at the same time, it’s like blasphemy
my FOMO having self made me buy the Ninja Team Combo Vehicle. for those not aware, it's a recent Ninjago release that is like $30+ overpriced all for 1 minifigure that has 1 exclusive piece
This happens when people think of buying the product as the experience and not building it or having fun with it, it's easier to fight this in war gaming/painting modeling kits because you can tell yourself that painting and building is the hobby, not buying, buying is just consumerism. But with Lego ? You build it and then what ? The process usually dont take that long and you have instructions all the time to help, only trying to make new stuff with the stuff you have is fun, unless you have a children to play with or use your legos to do Dungeons and Dragons and i think that is the problem with lego, they lost their core experience and changed it to consumerism.
As a fan but also collector of Lego I totally agree with the what you said in your video. My first introduction to lego when I was grouping up was lego Agents. Honestly, I buy lego for the playability and fun that it provides and not solely for the minfigures or the specific theme.
RR Slugger, JangBricks, and a handful of others are the only Lego TH-camrs I can actually stomach to watch anymore. FOMO memberberries bullshit from Lego in the last ten years has really turned me off from buying new production sets. I mainly collect Lego from before 2002 or so because honestly that’s when Lego fell wayyyyyyyyyyy off. From switching from only using yellow skin tones to the deluge of licensed themes over the next 21 years. Things like Disney buying out Lucasfilm are definitely to blame. With their acquisition of the Star Wars IP, they brought with them a horde of NPC consoomers and their grifter herders. MANDR type people. Lego used to keep sets on shelves for YEARS, close to a decade in a few cases. But as their market shifted from actual children to adults with the brains of children, they just lost themselves. Even the normal retail sets for children nowadays have the collector’s market factored into them. This is less extreme with in house themes, like City/Ninjago/etc but I would argue it is the MAIN factor of the majority of sets within licensed themes released today. They know exactly what they’re doing. It’s actually fucking maddening. Lego has been inflating their prices because they know most of the morons that follow them will gladly continue to pay for it. It’s actually disgusting, and we gotta hold ourselves accountable. Obviously this is not just a problem of The Lego Group, but of society as a whole. TLG is just a casualty.
Except JangBricks contributes to the overconsumption culture that plagues other TH-camrs, he is often the creator to go to for set reviews cause he gets most of the sets and does the reviews in the most boring clinical way possible. He is basically those set review sites in video format.
Slugger is indeed different, he doesnt chase any current Lego fab, he does his own thing and if there is a set he likes he will get it and do a review on it with his own spin and atmosphere. Plus it helps he doesnt oversaturate his own channel with videos, so each new one feels special. Jang has like 3-4 channels and reviews almost every week, its exhausting.
Congratulations on being monitised
Lego has many sets that they sell in EVERY single lego store across the whole wide world labeled as "HARD TO FIND"
Hard to fckn miss!
the lego theme i grew up with that has a cult following is lego bionicle. specifically the reboot. so that, hero factory, and nexo knights were my favorite themes as a kid, and still are. i am so glad that i grew up with these understated themes personally as most liscenced themes dont really cut it for me. except for lego transformers and lego mario that is.
I'd be interested in watching a video of your thoughts on the Black Series. I've had a pretty positive experience collecting them personally, but I only started this year, so I'd be interested in hearing your experiences with them and what the state of the hobby was back when you collected them.
Ever since Lego killed Bionicle twice and constraction build system, I have lost interest in buying their sets. None of them give me the same satisfaction because either the set is expensive, has limited articulation, or just looks bad.
Yea especially at these prices. I can't even force myself to be hyped for a 300 dollar licensed "adult" model that is the same size as 100 dollar sets back in the day when I could just but the older sets or literally anything else.
I love minifigs and having a lego city makes a great display for them, even if they don't fit the city
I have a mix of fomo and fobo. I started this year during may the 4th. I noticed the toy chain here has sets on a discount at release. Sometimes a big discount but usually a small one. But they dont offer a discount on all sets all the time. So fobo, especially when the deal is over is a real thing. But I do save my money untill I see a good deal for most sets
I gotta say the FOMO is WAY more crazy in the Transformers fandom (I collect Lego too), like Hasbro can not for the life of them try to produce enough of a character they KNOW is going to sell out instantly. Hasbro is also bad with black series and marvel legends but at least you usually have options by way of past versions, with Transformers you have to pray the new version of a character that hasn’t gotten a toy in 13 years is bad because if it’s good you’ll never get your hands on it for under 4x retail (worse yet when it’s something like a Walmart exclusive). At least Lego does do a good job at consistently stocking an item a little bit after release (I’m looking at you Speed Champions Nissan Skyline)
I don’t know so much about the fear of missing out in the playground for me when I was younger. I think it was more so that it looked really cool.
You’ve got like and sub in first second just cuz Chito was on screen! Like for best manga ever 😅
This video was honestly a really nice reality check, especially with the recent leaks, and I'm thankful for that. Fomo, and as you already pointed, is CRAZY in the customs side of the Lego community and is hella exploited. That really made me reflect upon my investment in that community and my overall investment in Lego
here's a tip, if you're looking for a set that just retired, check your local Barnes and Noble, they have sets and not a lot of people buy Legos there, found some sets that had retired 6 months prior at mine, pretty sure they still have the Seinfeld set lol
24:55 THE FWOOSH CAMEO!!!!!!
The only Lego stuff I tend to grab nowadays is parts for mini builds (akin to those Star Wars polybag vehicles) cause I'm a huge fan of miniature scale stuff. Those tend to be a great deal for me cause I can get a good amount of ships worth of parts for a great price, compared to the larger sets. The only big set I plan on getting is that X-Wing VS TIE Fighter dual set, where the ships can be interchanged by the fuselages and wings. After that, nothing else really catches my eye, save for the MIDI ship builds, but even those are a bit much.
I understand retiring a set. But I still think some stuff needs to be available or made so again. Like redesigning it. As long as it isn’t dumb redesign that takes away functionality or appeal. Like I understand they can’t always have a lego X Wing 24/7 but I swear the new X Wings don’t look as good as the old.
Definitely, the old 2012 X-Wing (9493) is a damn beauty. My personal favorite.
I've hacked the system: 2nd hand market. I've bought over 250€ worth of lego for 45. I don't care about boxes and booklets, I care about the bricks. I usually buy technic or City so the availability is always plenty ;)
Usually if it is a new battle pack or a clone themed set below $50, I want to buy it as soon as I see it. I remember when the 501st battle pack (the 2020 one), I bought as many as I could and I didn't regret the mass purchases of said set from 2020 to 2022. I felt this exhilarating from buying the sets and not letting anything slow me down or make me think otherwise.
rejoice, for the gods ahve given us a cosmonaut star wars video
Love the video, I don't like mandrproductions either. Too much of a smug brat for me.
used to get FOMO for Fortnite cosmetics only to then realize how much I was spending on it…
Are you still interested in a 8098 turbo tank?
I have a fear of paying too much and usually wait for sets to go on sale, sometimes buying on secondary market below MSRP.
See, I'm a Batman 2006 fan and I miss the days when those kinds of licensed themes were still LEGO-fied.
Hey if you do a video on the black series, could you also look into the power rangers lighting collection? Seeing both lines fall at the same time is fairly interesting
I don't even want the star destroyer but I really want Kal from fallen order
I buy an entire collection of lego speed champions every year. Fortunately, there are not dozens upon dozens of sets for this theme and most are pretty cheap, too. Then I buy some star wars from time to time, but because of space issues, mostly minifigures.
I collect Marvel Legends. I feel a good bit of FOMO with those. The Target exclusives are so hard to get.
34:30 ) 2022 Galaxy Explorer would like to know your location (
I'm a massive fan of DC and as such really love the lego DC sets, when I was younger I never really got to get a lot of the DC sets lego made cause I was a small child with no money. but now that i've got a job I can finally buy the old sets ive always wanted to get and it feels great finally getting to own and build these sets i've always wanted. even if they're twice as expensive
Something I'd love to hear more on is your take on Lego's GWP's. I had planned on buying Barad Dur, but because of the GWP I stayed up till midnight to ensure I got the Fell Beast. Looking back, it's not as great of a GWP. I still would have gotten Barad Dur, so it's nice to have the GWP too, but still. It's a funny thing...
Are you kidding me you traded the clone turbo tank for some bakugan!?! I like bakugan but come on. It's a clone turbo tank.
Don’t remind me I was like 8 or something
Dude this is an awesome video. Fomo is exhausting and conscienscious spending is important
I find when I miss out on a set is that there’s already so many sets that I’m interested and that there’s some that I forgot even though I am very interested in and that’s when I miss out on it and also that I don’t have all the money in the world