Great video! It’s such a awesome looking store & I hope to one day visit it. Still waiting for the day someone finally ceases the opportunity to show off all of the Plank Owner tiles on video, I’d love to see mine.
Those prices are absurd! For $500, you can get a 1/350 capital ship in injected plastic with ALL the aftermarket extras (eg photoetched rails, turned brass guns, tungsten rigging, 3D printed AA): which will make a museum quality scale model. Bar a fully rigged wooden man of war (which takes years to build, as opposed to say 400hrs), one of these would be the most eye catching display in any room. By comparison, these^ are just toys, with a price that can only be explained by the desire to extort nostalgic male adults. An eight year old could build one in a day, but only a forty year old could afford it.
Once again someone criticizing something they have no idea about.🤦♂The reason for there high prices are due to many things like the fact they don’t make the LEGO bricks & haft to buy them second hand in new condition (not cheap) and all of the time & effort it takes to make these kits a reality like the labor needed to hand sort the parts, artwork, designing, custom printing, custom parts, instructions, packaging, paying rent, paying licenses to multiple companies, it takes upwards of 20 people involved in some cases to produce certain models, (and there not getting paid minimum wage) plus the extremely low quantity of kits produced (50 on the low end & possibly 500 on the high end) in which all of the revenue invested in a kit has to be recouped in order to produce new kits & the list goes on. In summary each model isn’t just an overpriced toy, there high quality works of art with & each one is a limited collectors piece.
@@spooky2bricks Lol, "high quality works of art", pull the other one one mate. They're TOYS. Put one next to a museum quality scale ship model...for the same price....and that becomes super obvious. Also, I actually build these things-average build time for a frigate or destroyer is 300hrs (something you can SEE when you look at it, which is WHY they attract so much attention): so I DO know what I'm talking about. These things aren't the centre piece in any room, they're a TOY. As such, they will elicit no admiration-as there's nothing to admire. An eight yr old could put one together in-a-day. The value of an artwork: comes from it's perceived rarity, and a showing off of skills (I have a major in art theory btw, and am a practicing artist). There is no rarity here. Anyone could make one of these things. So it's actually YOU who doesn't have the qualifications to comment, mate. Stick to Lego. It's cheaper, and is the same thing.
@@rocketassistedgoat1079 LEGO on its own is already vary expensive & is a high quality toy brand in its own right. So paying one markup on an already premium brand gets expensive real quick when you can’t control the price of the bricks like LEGO can. There not as realistic as real models, that’s a true fact. But they are very creative designs and like extremely accurate for models made out of LEGO bricks. There’s no creativity with real models who just ‘mold & glue there problems away’ unlike LEGO which you haft to work the elements given to you. For mere toys a heck of a ton of adults love them considering LEGO now has 18+ sets. So criticizing them because there “toys” doesn’t hold much weight in todays world. Pulse you seemingly ignored everything I said before. Like it or not. There’s a lot of time, effort & passion for each model created. that’s just how things actually work.
@@spooky2bricks Lol, nonsense, I can tell you've never built a scale model (meaning AGAIN, you're not qualified to comment): there's TONS of creativity and actual SKILL and TIME that goes into making a museum quality replica. Building a ship especially, is overcoming a thousand little problems-all of which require creativity, imagination, intelligence, patience and skill to overcome. It takes ZERO skill, intelligence, patience or genuine creativity, none: to slap one of these things together-which any eight yr old can do in a day. It takes at least a decade and ten thousand hrs, to develop the skills to build a scale replica. Not to mention all the scratch building I add (such as the hanger, and towed array bay plus LED lighting on my most recent Type-23, none of the aftermarket details include that). There's just no comparison mate. Are you a Trump supporter perchance? Because you live in a fantasy world where facts and reality simply don't exist. Scale models aren't fine art either, but they sure tick a lot more of the boxes than these literal toys do.
As an art major like you said you were I’m disappointed to here that from one. Many people use LEGO as the template for great modeling and for you to just shame all people you professionally model with LEGO is just false. Yes there are actually people who professionally model with lego, Sean Kenny being one excellent example. You compare lego to actual models which is a different form of modeling. Brickmania is a small company who models using lego to make custom lego military sets (lego wont do military due to there company policy’s) & its vary expensive to make aftermarket sets at a nice quality. Each set is serial numbered and limited. So you they are collector items & have custom printing and components that cant be obtained in any other way. You have to understand its not just the accuracy of the models that drives these prices its the labor and low numbers of models made for rare lego elements they can’t control the price of.
nice visit 👍
Great video! It’s such a awesome looking store & I hope to one day visit it. Still waiting for the day someone finally ceases the opportunity to show off all of the Plank Owner tiles on video, I’d love to see mine.
Thank you! And I’ll try to get a video the next time I go!
I went on my 34th birthday recently, it was a fun visit, I was glad to spend my birthday and my birthday cash there.
Awesome! Love BKM stores!
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Least expensive thing there was 150$ id rather by barbie than that crap 😂
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insulted by the mega pricing on this plastic crap
Those prices are absurd! For $500, you can get a 1/350 capital ship in injected plastic with ALL the aftermarket extras (eg photoetched rails, turned brass guns, tungsten rigging, 3D printed AA): which will make a museum quality scale model. Bar a fully rigged wooden man of war (which takes years to build, as opposed to say 400hrs), one of these would be the most eye catching display in any room. By comparison, these^ are just toys, with a price that can only be explained by the desire to extort nostalgic male adults. An eight year old could build one in a day, but only a forty year old could afford it.
Once again someone criticizing something they have no idea about.🤦♂The reason for there high prices are due to many things like the fact they don’t make the LEGO bricks & haft to buy them second hand in new condition (not cheap) and all of the time & effort it takes to make these kits a reality like the labor needed to hand sort the parts, artwork, designing, custom printing, custom parts, instructions, packaging, paying rent, paying licenses to multiple companies, it takes upwards of 20 people involved in some cases to produce certain models, (and there not getting paid minimum wage) plus the extremely low quantity of kits produced (50 on the low end & possibly 500 on the high end) in which all of the revenue invested in a kit has to be recouped in order to produce new kits & the list goes on. In summary each model isn’t just an overpriced toy, there high quality works of art with & each one is a limited collectors piece.
@@spooky2bricks Lol, "high quality works of art", pull the other one one mate. They're TOYS. Put one next to a museum quality scale ship model...for the same price....and that becomes super obvious.
Also, I actually build these things-average build time for a frigate or destroyer is 300hrs (something you can SEE when you look at it, which is WHY they attract so much attention): so I DO know what I'm talking about. These things aren't the centre piece in any room, they're a TOY. As such, they will elicit no admiration-as there's nothing to admire. An eight yr old could put one together in-a-day. The value of an artwork: comes from it's perceived rarity, and a showing off of skills (I have a major in art theory btw, and am a practicing artist). There is no rarity here. Anyone could make one of these things. So it's actually YOU who doesn't have the qualifications to comment, mate. Stick to Lego. It's cheaper, and is the same thing.
@@rocketassistedgoat1079 LEGO on its own is already vary expensive & is a high quality toy brand in its own right. So paying one markup on an already premium brand gets expensive real quick when you can’t control the price of the bricks like LEGO can. There not as realistic as real models, that’s a true fact. But they are very creative designs and like extremely accurate for models made out of LEGO bricks. There’s no creativity with real models who just ‘mold & glue there problems away’ unlike LEGO which you haft to work the elements given to you. For mere toys a heck of a ton of adults love them considering LEGO now has 18+ sets. So criticizing them because there “toys” doesn’t hold much weight in todays world. Pulse you seemingly ignored everything I said before. Like it or not. There’s a lot of time, effort & passion for each model created. that’s just how things actually work.
@@spooky2bricks Lol, nonsense, I can tell you've never built a scale model (meaning AGAIN, you're not qualified to comment): there's TONS of creativity and actual SKILL and TIME that goes into making a museum quality replica. Building a ship especially, is overcoming a thousand little problems-all of which require creativity, imagination, intelligence, patience and skill to overcome. It takes ZERO skill, intelligence, patience or genuine creativity, none: to slap one of these things together-which any eight yr old can do in a day. It takes at least a decade and ten thousand hrs, to develop the skills to build a scale replica. Not to mention all the scratch building I add (such as the hanger, and towed array bay plus LED lighting on my most recent Type-23, none of the aftermarket details include that). There's just no comparison mate. Are you a Trump supporter perchance? Because you live in a fantasy world where facts and reality simply don't exist. Scale models aren't fine art either, but they sure tick a lot more of the boxes than these literal toys do.
As an art major like you said you were I’m disappointed to here that from one. Many people use LEGO as the template for great modeling and for you to just shame all people you professionally model with LEGO is just false. Yes there are actually people who professionally model with lego, Sean Kenny being one excellent example. You compare lego to actual models which is a different form of modeling. Brickmania is a small company who models using lego to make custom lego military sets (lego wont do military due to there company policy’s) & its vary expensive to make aftermarket sets at a nice quality. Each set is serial numbered and limited. So you they are collector items & have custom printing and components that cant be obtained in any other way. You have to understand its not just the accuracy of the models that drives these prices its the labor and low numbers of models made for rare lego elements they can’t control the price of.