Richard Siegel and Blanca Gudino, 39, were arrested on Wednesday after detectives found more than 2,800 LEGO boxes at Siegel's Long Beach, California, home.
Each box is easily worth 1-2 hundred. On the low side. They’re legos. and some of those sets are the limited-time only sets
The falcon sets are all 500+, if I’m reading the thumbnail right (paywall, erg.)
If we assume 100 per, that’s still 300k in value. “It’s just plastic”… might be a legitimate reason to not buy the sets, but c’mon. You wouldn’t knock collecting art (“it’s just canvas and paint.”)
Are you comparing mass-produced plastic machine made pieces to art? I will absolutely agree that you can make art with them, but at the end of the day we’re talking about plastic trash injected into a mold. If you want to get me to somehow defend a company that sell s plastic waste for a massive premium, it just isn’t going to happen.
At the end of the day, we’re just talking about some pigments and solvents smeared across some cloth.
I agree some of it can be art, but it’s still just trash. And don’t even get me started on the lumps of mud!
Actually, if we want to get pedantic, I would suggest the kits are more in line with prints rather than original paintings, but just because you see it as trash, doesn’t mean it is.
Certainly my opinion doesn’t change the value of it. you can spend all the money you want on plastic garbage. Or by Taylor Swift records. Or buy a Tesla cyber truck.
Opinions are subjective, but you are factually purchasing pennies worth of plastic for hundreds of dollars because of some kind of nostalgic brainwashing or just general silliness.
Agree on the bag. Disagree on the currency. If Legos were used as currency then it would be totally logical if still completely stupid. Even then, there’s human labor involved in making a quality bag, but every Lego brick is exactly the same and made by a machine out of a penny’s worth of plastic.
What’s that like $100 worth of plastic? How is this news?
Each box is easily worth 1-2 hundred. On the low side. They’re legos. and some of those sets are the limited-time only sets
The falcon sets are all 500+, if I’m reading the thumbnail right (paywall, erg.)
If we assume 100 per, that’s still 300k in value. “It’s just plastic”… might be a legitimate reason to not buy the sets, but c’mon. You wouldn’t knock collecting art (“it’s just canvas and paint.”)
Are you comparing mass-produced plastic machine made pieces to art? I will absolutely agree that you can make art with them, but at the end of the day we’re talking about plastic trash injected into a mold. If you want to get me to somehow defend a company that sell s plastic waste for a massive premium, it just isn’t going to happen.
At the end of the day, we’re just talking about some pigments and solvents smeared across some cloth.
I agree some of it can be art, but it’s still just trash. And don’t even get me started on the lumps of mud!
Actually, if we want to get pedantic, I would suggest the kits are more in line with prints rather than original paintings, but just because you see it as trash, doesn’t mean it is.
Certainly my opinion doesn’t change the value of it. you can spend all the money you want on plastic garbage. Or by Taylor Swift records. Or buy a Tesla cyber truck.
Opinions are subjective, but you are factually purchasing pennies worth of plastic for hundreds of dollars because of some kind of nostalgic brainwashing or just general silliness.
Same like a 3k LV bag is 150 bucks of leather. Or a 100 dollar bill is a few cents of paper.
Agree on the bag. Disagree on the currency. If Legos were used as currency then it would be totally logical if still completely stupid. Even then, there’s human labor involved in making a quality bag, but every Lego brick is exactly the same and made by a machine out of a penny’s worth of plastic.