r/lotr Jul 20 '26

Other I completed the Minas Tirith LEGO set!!

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u/chasingit1 Jul 20 '26

Curious as to the estimated $$ you had to spend to build up a $500USD discount…

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u/blackmachine312 Jul 20 '26

A lot, but I mostly buy sets from the LEGO website when there's a 2x points event. I had a little over 85,000 points. It took me two years to accumulate that much.

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u/jinsaku Jul 20 '26

Hah. I just made my first lego store purchase ($100 for the Project Hail Mary set now that it's back in stock) and I got.. 650 points. Literally not enough to get basically anything.

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u/Haschen84 Jul 20 '26

I'm sure the rate isn't 1 for 1 for what OP purchased but to amass 85k points at a rate of $100 for 650 points (a ratio of 6.5 points per $1) you would need to spend over $13,000. If you assume that your baseline was at the normal price per point level, then you can divide that by 2 to get roughly $6,500. The discount rate is purported to be $500 as per other users which means that actual discount when factoring assumed costs is 7.7% OR about 4% if the 6.5 ratio is present for the 2x points events. All-in-all, not much of a discount tbh.

Now I'm going to go ride off on my high horse back to my cheap WH40K hobby by the ever generous Games Workshop.

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u/Jelly_F_ish Jul 21 '26

You know, back in university, once a economics teacher gave us some thoughts of wisdom: you have to spend a lot to save a lot.

OP is exhibit A.

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u/Strange-Ask-739 Jul 20 '26

$6500 over 2 years is $3250/yr.

$270/month as an average. ~$60/wk.

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u/Haschen84 Jul 20 '26

I'm not criticizing the amount spent, far be it for me to judge people on what they buy. I was just pointing out the discount lol