Minifigure Vending Machine

"With a BrickScore of 80.5 and 686 owner ratings averaging 4.79, the Minifigure Vending Machine is one of the most unanimously loved Ideas sets in recent memory, delivering a genuinely functional dispensing mechanism and 16 collectible minifigs, with the only real debate being whether the $179.99 price tag is justified."

The Minifigure Vending Machine drew emphatic praise from nearly every reviewer for its fully functional gumball-machine mechanism: insert a coin, turn the knob, and a capsule containing a minifigure drops out. Owner sentiment is remarkably strong, with an average of 4.79 out of 5 across 686 ratings at Walmart, Target, Amazon, and LEGO.com, and 91 percent of LEGO.com buyers saying they would recommend it. The one consistent criticism is the price, with multiple reviewers and some owners flagging $179.99 as steep for 1,343 pieces at $0.134 per piece. The Brickset structural scores lean toward the 60-80 range on value, but the sheer joy of the working mechanism and the 16 included minifigures (plus a designer minifig) win most people over.