Prices of New Sets are Nuts

Sprocket77 · 2016-05-27T09:20:16.000Z

Just been in Smyths and they have all the June releases out a few days early and across the board I was looking at these sets going, God they're overpriced. A few examples and by no mean the only ones: Volcano Heavy Lifter Helicopter €130 Vader's Tie Advanced vs A-Wing €110 Resistance X- Wing €95 - €10 more than Poe's X-Wing for whatever reason Batman: Scarecrow Harvest of Fear €75 Spiderman Web Warriors Ultimate Bridge Battle €120 Fun in the Park €45 Smyths generally have the same RRP as Lego, so no TRU gouging to start with. I couldn't believe the prices on most of these having only seen the dollar prices in advance, which of course are lower. They're decent sets and the super hero ones in particular are a definite improvement on previous sets in the theme, but they are way overpriced. One of the sets I've been looking forward to seeing and which there's a huge amount of positivity on here for is the Fun in the Park, but boy is it underwhelming. I know it's a minifigure set so the piece count is going to be low for the price and there's some nice new additions, but this set is tiny, the box itself being not much bigger than a battle pack set. I just can't see this being picked up as a present when you can get a lot more bang for buck elsewhere.