Random figure of the day: ani022

Pricey Blathers.

Wonder if he'd kick you out of the museum if you asked him, "So how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop...":D

Any relation to Wan Shi Tong? Two owl archivists giving me the same contemptuous glare…

Why does the minifig cost a third of the price of the whole kit at brick owl or bricklink when it is still available?

Oho, I've shown him many a fossil.

Still absolutely infuriates me that they reused Celeste's head sculpt for this.

Angy Owl

@PeterT_AFOL said:
"Why does the minifig cost a third of the price of the whole kit at brick owl or bricklink when it is still available?"

Simple application of the law of supply and demand. People want to save money, so they're buying the minifig instead of the set. If there aren't many minifigs being offered loose, demand exceeds supply, and the price goes up. Since the set is still available, cost of the set gives a hard ceiling to the price of the minifig (why pay $81 for the minifig, when you can just buy the set for $80?). The practical ceiling is lower still, as any people will determine that it's worth buying the whole set if you can get the rest of it at a large enough "discount".

Probably the worst case I've seen of this was 8537. The set retailed for $15, and came with four copies of an exclusive mask. People wanted the mask bad enough, and the set was hard enough to come by early on, that people were willing to pay $15 each for the masks rather than wait for the sets to become more widely available.

@PeterT_AFOL said:
"Why does the minifig cost a third of the price of the whole kit at brick owl or bricklink when it is still available?"

That’s the Lego aftermarket for ya.

A brick owl available for sale on Brick Owl...