Looks great. I'll have to start saving!

I was not expecting that price, looks amazing though.
Time to rob a bank...

Far to expensive for me, but still its a highly impressive piece.

Wow! Can this be a late entry to the best of the millennium tournament? Really looking forward to this.

Not at all a fan of that price. A hard pass for me

Whoa, the first 18+ Ideas set!

And it really plays music, with the Powered Up app! That's just so cool. I hope the grown-ups like it, since LEGO has decided to make it squarely for the 18+ demographic. It looks pretty sizable, just like the original submission, rather than small and toy-sized.

That price tag, though. Does it include both the motor and the hub? That's going to please those who want the functionality and annoy those who don't. There is no winning in such a case (i.e. whether the components are included or sold separately).

WOW. Amazing set but I was really not prepared for that price. I can't swing that unfortunately. Maybe I'll get lucky on ebay some day.

Amazing stuff, unfortunately out of my price range

Very underwhelmed tbh. One thing I do want to confirm: was the original IDEAS model actually playable, or did it also use a phone?

Lego has been putting out some really amazing sets but unfortunately (and understandably) they come with a hefty price tag. What makes it worse is that if these sets are out of production the second hand prices are likely to go up which makes them even more unattainable

At that price this is going to be a tough sell for anyone without a deep personal connection to a piano. With that said, very impressive. The Ideas line continues to showcase the immense creativity and skills of the community.

I think the price is actually reasonable considering the fact it works. Ok £320 isn't exactly great value but with all that went into this set i think its justifiable and definitely something worth picking up.

Its beautiful imo.

Also take into account that Powered Up parts are included, they themselves cost over £80 separately.

Am I wrong, or there is something wrong with the proportions? Isn't it too thick?

I’d say something on the price, but I guess maybe that’s the cost of the thing looking as nice as it does and working as it should?

Also I just realized, if LEGO is going to keep this 18+ line a thing then maybe they should release sets that have a smaller entry point outside the hundreds of dollar ranges,

Certainly the statement piece if you’re into music. I’m not £320 into it though.

Uh oh, someone broke the comment section.

I’ve no interest in these sets that are dependent upon an app. None. I don’t want to be left with a paper weight when the app is (inevitably) not supported. And Yes, I’m sure someone will probably figure out some work around, but I’ll guarantee you I won’t be arsed messing around with it. I’ll want it to just work.

I'm so upset and disappointed with this reveal. Why do they have to integrate it with PoweredUp!?
It raised the price by 150 € and added small value. In ten years I highly doubt that the app will still be supported on whatever technology we will be using in 2030.
And the fact that you press any key and the music goes on, whether you pressed the right key or not, it's pretty dumb, as a former musician. Since it's aimed at an adult target, you don't actually need all of that play value (pun not intended).
I was so excited when it passed the review, but in my opinion they completely missed the point.

It's a little amusing that this ended up with more pieces than what LEGO Ideas even allows for submissions (3k pieces).

It's not so much as it's too thick but scaled laterally. If you just look at the keyboard / fallboard the height proportions are generally correct. But the width is off, for obvious reasons. If you widen the piano to full width and depth the height starts to look a lot more proportional.

Wow, this is beyond my expectations! I figured they would just give us the mechanism of a piano, not the actual ability to make music!

I am still intrigued as to how the smartphone app works - how can the phone possibly recognise which keys have been pressed so that you can "play a tune yourself"?

And what's the sensor used for inside the piano body? Is it allowing the piano to recognise when pedals are pressed, so the app changes the piano tones?

I am eagerly awaiting the reviews. And maybe a lottery win, so I can afford to buy this beauty.

It looks like there is a 32L axle running the width of the keyboard, which is pushed up when the keys are pressed, and pivots around the yellow technic joint on the left.
Then the sensor (a new type?) is behind the 4 stacked thin red technic liftarms.
So the nearer the key to the left, the further it will lift that axle.
But surely that sensor, whatever it is, won't be sensitive enough to differentiate between the different lift from different keys?

Looks really great. Yes, it's expensive, but it's such a unique and clever set.

(The comments seem broken, I wonder if this will fix it? i< ?)

From the article on The Brothers Brick (https://www.brothers-brick.com/2020/07/23/lego-ideas-21323-grand-piano-makes-music-starting-aug-1st-news/), it's clear that this set can't actually detect which key you're pressing, but just responds to any key press when producing the music.

"The piano can be played in either a “user play” toy piano mode (where hitting any key produces the next note in a selected song) or in an “auto-play” mode (where the piano moves randomized keys while the app produces music like a player piano)."

I really wanted this set, until I saw the price. I do not understand how they can justify £320 pounds for this.

3662 pieces for £319.99?

The Harry Potter School is £349.99 for 6020. The Death Star is £409.99 for 4016. Ghostbusters HQ was £284.99 for 4634. The Ninjago was £259.99 for 4867. The Ninjago City Docks were £199.99 for 3553. The Disney Castle £299.99 for 4080. The Sand Crawler £249.99 for 3296. The Tree House £179.99 for 3036. The Pirates of Barracuda Bay £179.99 for 2545. Big Ben £179.99 for 4163. Assembly Square £179.99 for 4002. The Taj Mahal £299.99 for 5923.

I don't understand the price, I really don't.

Are the power functions included?

I would have brought this set for under £200. This is way too overpriced.

Wow. That is amazing.

Not owning any smart devices, the app functionatlity is useless to me, but the set itself is gorgeous. An instant buy for me. I just somehow missed how big it would be, even though looking back there was a large piececount in the original submission...

This set has very special meaning to me. My brother at the age of 43, passed away from cancer 10 weeks ago. He has always been a great piano player and was self taught. Even when he was in palliative, he played the piano for the other patients as they had an old piano in the hospital ward.

When this set was initially approved, I was hoping it would be released in time where my brother and I could build it together and I would have something I could display, knowing our hands together built a baby grand. Sadly, his time ran out, but i want to still build this set is his honor.

When we grew up as kids, he loved GIJoe and I loved Lego but we shared our toys and played together. Today, I'm an adult collector and building helps me with the everyday stresses of life and coping with my brother's loss...it allows me to escape back to my childhood. Sorry for being sappy on this post, but to me, Lego is the greatest toy ever produced and I have so much emotion built up for this new set.

Impressive, but that price though.

@CCC said:
" @ChocolateCrisps said:
"From the article on The Brothers Brick (https://www.brothers-brick.com/2020/07/23/lego-ideas-21323-grand-piano-makes-music-starting-aug-1st-news/), it's clear that this set can't actually detect which key you're pressing, but just responds to any key press when producing the music.

"The piano can be played in either a “user play” toy piano mode (where hitting any key produces the next note in a selected song) or in an “auto-play” mode (where the piano moves randomized keys while the app produces music like a player piano).""

LEGO's website says ... "choose 'user play' to play the notes yourself or 'auto play' to listen to 1 of 4 songs." To me, that means pressing a key should play that note. But then they do also say "pretend to play along ..." although later "you can play a tune yourself or automatically". I guess we'll find out when Huw/Alice reviews it.

They also use the word playable. If all it does is a play the next note in one of four preset tunes when you mash anything on the keyboard, then is that a playable piano? If that is all it does, I foresee complaints and returns.
"

Marketing teams are full of bad people :) I think I will wait the set's reviews before spending that much money. And the fact that it needs an app sucks a lot (we all know their apps are only supported for a few years).

Its a mixed bag isn't it. I did wonder how on earth it could play music. As a model it looks great, but if we wanted a model I'm sure we could have had one for £150-£200. To have an app that plays a song seems a little an expensive add-on. If its live so a key is detected and that note comes out of the phone so you cannot detect a delay then great, but that's the best you can hope for for the extra cost. Lets get a video review and re-judge. On the bright side if the designed gets the same percentage and they sell great news at £320 a pop.

Art or Piano?Art or Piano? Art or Piano? Art or Piano? ....hears rumours of Mos Eisley set, brain and wallet (And wife) explodes. Gahhhhh!

This is the one set so far where the 18+ box art standard really and truly works. If Steinway sold $350 piano toys, that is exactly what the box would look like.

Hmm. £320 is an eye-watering price. I could buy an actual digital piano for that money.
And the 'playability' is something of a stretch. I appreciate that you can play some notes, but for the most part you're listening to a piece of music while looking at a Lego set - the relationship between the set and the music is tenuous at best.

Well done, Donny Chen, for getting this into production, but I'd be doubtful at half the price. At north of £300 that's an easy pass.

I don’t know why I was under the impression that the set would play music itself. The fact it can’t and the cost have turned me off, but it looks beautiful.

UCS black tile parts pack

@NickF22 Yes, you're exactly right. My ignorance to coding(?) kicked the cord. Apologies to the dozens.

My offending comment was in reference to the boring packaging. I'm not so sure the revised packaging scheme is having the desired effect. It's just so bland and after seeing 10-15 new products using the scheme it's really becoming noticeable. And I say that acknowledging that the piano is probably the first set where the design is appropriate.

@CDM said:
"At that price this is going to be a tough sell for anyone without a deep personal connection to a piano. With that said, very impressive. The Ideas line continues to showcase the immense creativity and skills of the community. "

I don't have a deep personal connection to a piano, but I do play guitar, and am very into music. Day one purchase for me.

@ChocolateCrisps said:
"The piano can be played in either a “user play” toy piano mode (where hitting any key produces the next note in a selected song) or in an “auto-play” mode (where the piano moves randomized keys while the app produces music like a player piano)."
Then I'd say the Powered Up integration is sadly rather pointless and just adds to the price as well as the thickness of the model.

Could Lego have offered this set at $279US? Perhaps... $329US? Likely. But then again the set is ingenious beyond anything they have put out in...years, beyond Voltron. And this is ~1300 more pieces than that set and includes some power function components. So-IMO- the price point is fair.

While there are some issues they are either immaterial or invalid given the medium. I rack my brain wondering how anyone expects plastic bricks to actually produce musical tones. If that were possible real pianos wouldn't be made of wood and string and metal. The notes coming from an electronic device is no different than using a midi controller connected to a tablet or laptop. Given that the user is building a controller from Lego I consider this phenomenonal. Likewise the dimensions are understandable. More accurate proportionality would increase the size and therefore the cost. Anyone familiar with Lego knows that the actual product ALWAYS looks better than the pre-release images. This set looks stunning in the promotionals. The actual set should be mind-blowing

It is a day one purchase for me- only because I decided to hold off on the Lambo due to it's delayed release in the US and then reports coming out re the color scheme issues. If this is NOT available in-store (a LEGO store is 15min from my home) Aug 1st I'm going to be very disappointed. The biggest problem I have is that I cannot build immediately as I have no place to display at the time.

Its BEAUTIFUL!

As a pianist, this is the perfect combination of two of my passions, and its surreal that TLG actually released a sizeable grand piano. To me, its more than a model, or a playset, or an overpriced smartphone stand haha. Its a physical manifestation of my passion for the piano and its music (other than the actual piano of course :P), and it is a way to explore and experience my passion in a different way. Of course, it being a 3.6k+ piece set also guarantees some form of accuracy and functionality. Love the little details, from the "brand" of the piano printed as Lego, to the "lock" at the front of the piano represented by the gold(?) ignot piece. The other functions (semi-functional hammers, adjustable seat, the opening top lid) are expected of a set this large (and expensive).

Also, absolutely loved the reveal video to the tune of Moonlight. I got chills by watching it, as the music builds and the camera pans out, its beautiful. Its obvious that the people behind this video understands and appreciates music deeply, and its an amazing experience seeing it come to life. The team behind that video deserves a raise haha

Is it worth its price tag though? As many have pointed out (and rightfully so), one could buy an electronic keyboard for the price of this set. Personally, it is out of my budget currently (got to start saving more!) but if I had enough disposable income, I would grab it in a heartbeat. I would actually prefer TLG forgoing the powered-up functionality (like they did with the Crocodile Locomotive just a while back), and just giving us a potentially motorise-able grand piano at lower cost. That being said, absolutely LOVE this set in all its glory

As someone who can play pianos a little bit, I was really looking forward to this set. The final design looks incredible and I can absolutely see the effort and detail that's gone into it. But £320?! Really?! That's at least £100 more than I was expecting for what seems to be just the ability to 'play' via the app, which frankly I'm not bothered about at all.

If the piano itself can't play notes (and realistically it was never going to) then I'd rather have a 'silent' version where the keys move etc. but no sound and therefore no link to the PoweredUp app. As others have said, apps only get updated for so long so what happens in 5-10+ years when you want to 'play' with the set only to find it doesn't work fully anymore? That's a lot of money wasted for functionality that potentially no longer exists. Will I have to keep an 'old' smartphone lying around just so I can get the piano to 'play' when the phone serves no other purpose?

If they could make a 2nd, cheaper version without the ability to link to the app, I'd probably be there in a shot.

It breaks my heart slightly to say this is going to have to be a pass for me.

These prices are getting out of hand. I'm sorry, but CA $449.99 before tax is ridiculous and laughable. I would even say out of touch with reality in a time people and economics are fighting to survive all over the world due to the pandemic.

Lego needs to climb down and keep in mind that, by the end of the day, it's still a plastic building toy.

Regardless of one's personal means to purchase or not this set, I hope people would vote with their wallets, otherwise a minimum $350 sets would be the new norm.

Even if the power functions are included, it still doesn't justify the price for me. There are a lot of sets out there that don't require functions, had more pieces and yet were cheaper than this. I would have preferred it if they sold those separately, as then it would be a lot cheaper and I would be able to actually justify the cost to myself.

That this is what they're doing to the piano gets me wondering and worried about the typewriter.

Another Ideas set that I thought I would possibly purchase when it passed the review.

Now however, I can see the same sort of price for a machine with power functions that requires a downloadable app for the sound that such a typewriter model makes.

@CCC : You don't have to wait for the review - from The Brothers Brick:

LEGO Design Lead Sam Johnson: “Our piano doesn’t have a ‘natural piano’ function where you play the keys as if they were real because that would have been prohibitively complicated to produce as a LEGO set.
LEGO Designer Chee Woon Tze: “You don’t need to know how to play music with this, all you need to do is press the keys.”

Anyone who thinks that you can press say an "A" key and actually hear an "A" will be very disappointed.

@daniellesa said:
"I really wanted this set, until I saw the price. I do not understand how they can justify £320 pounds for this.

3662 pieces for £319.99?

The Harry Potter School is £349.99 for 6020. The Death Star is £409.99 for 4016. Ghostbusters HQ was £284.99 for 4634. The Ninjago was £259.99 for 4867. The Ninjago City Docks were £199.99 for 3553. The Disney Castle £299.99 for 4080. The Sand Crawler £249.99 for 3296. The Tree House £179.99 for 3036. The Pirates of Barracuda Bay £179.99 for 2545. Big Ben £179.99 for 4163. Assembly Square £179.99 for 4002. The Taj Mahal £299.99 for 5923.

I don't understand the price, I really don't.

Are the power functions included?

I would have brought this set for under £200. This is way too overpriced.
"

It's in line with LITERALLY EVERY OTHER SET released that you didn't mention. I swear, if I had a penny every time somebody complained about the pricing on LEGO sets...

Looks absolutely amazing .... with an equally incredible price tag.

Playable via the app is always disappointing to read and for me personally I would prefer a more affordable set without the Powered Up App

yawn..for 350€ i can buy an actual piano....enough said!

If lego would only put the same effort in city-sets, I would be a very lucky man...

Now that's a disappointment. For that price they could have added a switches strip to detect which button was pressed.

@Island_Lego

Thoughts with you and your family with the loss of your brother.

Thank you for sharing your beautiful and very special sentiments.

This needs to come with a Billy Joel minifigure.

@Sanyiman said:
" @daniellesa said:
"I really wanted this set, until I saw the price. I do not understand how they can justify £320 pounds for this.

3662 pieces for £319.99?

The Harry Potter School is £349.99 for 6020. The Death Star is £409.99 for 4016. Ghostbusters HQ was £284.99 for 4634. The Ninjago was £259.99 for 4867. The Ninjago City Docks were £199.99 for 3553. The Disney Castle £299.99 for 4080. The Sand Crawler £249.99 for 3296. The Tree House £179.99 for 3036. The Pirates of Barracuda Bay £179.99 for 2545. Big Ben £179.99 for 4163. Assembly Square £179.99 for 4002. The Taj Mahal £299.99 for 5923.

I don't understand the price, I really don't.

Are the power functions included?

I would have brought this set for under £200. This is way too overpriced.
"

It's in line with LITERALLY EVERY OTHER SET released that you didn't mention. I swear, if I had a penny every time somebody complained about the pricing on LEGO sets..."

Oh really, which ones?

I could afford this if I wanted to. I'm not complaing because I can't. The ones I listed were the sets I brought, minus Harry Potter. I'm complaining because in this case, I don't think the price is justified.

I read the words "using the app" and instantly lose interest, to me that means "probably useless in less than 5 years".

This might be one of the rare sets to have a poor review status on LEGO's website. While it is readily understandable that it would be HARD to make a LEGO piano in which pressing "C" generates a "C" sound....that is exactly what they are representing / purporting here.

Sure, you can parse the language (and they will), but they are going to get inundated with complaints and returns. Without the app, its a beautiful display piece (which is fine) that should cost $200 max.

Was very intrigued by this set, then discovered two things that instantly put me off: 1) It works with an App, :-( & 2) The price - Way too much... Really should have just made this a beautiful model of a Grand Piano and not effectively doubled the price adding the (gimmicky) piano player / app based novelty stuff in there. For not much over the £320 price tag you can buy a full size 88-note weighted digital piano.

For such a black set they could put a BATMAN logo on it! :)))

The RRP is fair, but it is expensive.
In the end it will be the NES or the piano, but both would blow my budget.
And there are still 3 Creator Expert to be released this year.

In the official video, at 1:45 you see the phone screen with sheet music in the official app. It's titled "Fur Elise" but the notes don't make any sense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgg61no1Hm4

Why insist on authenticity if it's not actually authentic?

By Librarian1976 in United States, 23 Jul 2020 16:01
This needs to come with a Billy Joel minifigure.

For that price it needs to have Billy Joel coming round to my house!

The price is the result of the Powered Up components and many pieces that are on average pricier than the average piece. I think the price is about what I would expect from such a set. Tunnelvisioning on piece count is pointless, quite bad metric of value in fact. This is not one of those sets with hundreds of 1x1 pieces to push up the piece count.

I still need the Treehouse, the Pirate Bay, Star Destroyer, so many other high dollar sets...heck I just finally picked up the Bookstore...Oy LEGO...you task me...you task me and I shall have you...

But here I am complaining about high priced sets I can’t afford, like so many of us. But really...we are so fortunate to have these options and creative sets from which to CHOOSE, don’t you think? In a lot of ways, it’s an amazing time to be a LEGO fan.

A very impressive set with a high price that I think is reasonable for all the parts it contains. I'm quite impressed with all the functionality that they were able to put into this and design it somewhat accurately to how a piano works. Also, some folks here seem to have some unreasonable and ridiculous expectations, do you really think it would be possible to make a correctly playable piano with sounds? Obviously not unless LEGO develops a powered up device to do that or use many sensors for each key.

@kkoster79 said:
"I thought whoa on the price too, however on another site the powered up hub is Included! So that’s a $90 price tag. So brings the set cost to $260 so not so bad...!"

This is the cost for you, not for Lego. Also, they could've easily made PU optional, like with the other sets. IF you only care about it as a display piece, the PU extra cost is not needed. They could've find ways to lower costs, but they decided not to.

LEGO has been releasing so many impressive and expensive sets lately that I'm starting to feel burnout in trying to get them all. Running after something you can never catch up. This one is beautiful but I just need to accept I'm going to have to let it go by.

Equals to $420 in Norway..., nice try LEGO. Anyway, wonder why they cannibalize their own sets by releasing so many at the same time/date..?

Its not the set for me (looks like a black tile parts pack :) but this is as close a replica of the original ideas submission as any (Likely by far the most accurate replica to date). As far as I can tell the dimensions in studs are almost identical to the original and in the video of the original Ideas submission it included a power functions box and motor to "play" the keys. The biggest fault with the lego version is the less realistic strings (using exclusively flex tubes instead of mix of string and tube like original). The functionality of this set is IDENTICAL to the original IDEAS submission (except with a PU link to the phone to make sound!). It was never going to be possible to generate real sound out to lego bricks- and hard to imagine how to use existing lego elements to make a real electronic keyboard that responded to touch. I would say the price is high, but a $250 black piano without any sound/ movement that is larger than a modular building seems like it wouldn't have worked as a product either. I guess one could have significantly downsized and shrunk the original submission to make a ~$100 version or stuck with the submitted scale and done what they did. I personally think the bigger version was the way to go but I see the argument for significantly smaller and cheaper set.

To me: "...select user play on the free LEGO Powered Up app to PLAY THE NOTES YOURSELF or activate auto play and just listen..." is just on the absolute verge of false advertising. I think it is a wonderful display piece for the affiliated musician. Personally, a display piece does not need any power functions which would have made it way more attractive to market at a lower pricepoint. But that is just me. Lego Marketing has probably figured this out way better than silly old me. For me it is a hard pass even though I was a semi professional musician for over 10 years. Love the mechanics, not the powered up stuff. On another note, power functions had a really nice price/function ratio, didn't it?

With the amount of great sets being released in August I'm almost glad that the Osprey was cancelled. At least I might have a couple of quid left for food!

I would rather have had the cute little fish tank.

On the other hand, my 2020 Lego want list is noticeably smaller than prior years. So Lego is saving me money!

Thanks, Lego!

@Sanyiman said:
"I swear, if I had a penny every time somebody complained about the pricing on LEGO sets..."

If I had a penny every time somebody complained about the pricing of LEGO sets, I would be able to afford LEGO sets! :~P

On Looney Tunes, when Bugs Bunny plays the piano, he actually hits the right keys to make the sounds that you hear. The cartoons were made for kids, but the animators made sure to get it right. That sets the bar, and Lego missed it. It's an attractive model, but it shouldn't be marketed to adults if Lego is going to settle for a "playable" feature with preschool-level functionality.

Assuming Lego wasn't interested in adding piano wire to their parts catalog, they should have at least put in enough sensors to have one octave play correctly through the app.

@vader11 said:
"Seriously though. Why would they make a piano in this scale. This is bigger than even the modular buildings. I expect this would be in a small or medium scale at most and cost less than $50. Not $350. Another bad decision from Lego. People would get a real or an electric one if they want to play music. There are way better and bigger sets than this and cost cheaper."

It's not meant to be placed inside a modular building, I suppose.

This personally doesn’t interest me but I am curious; did the original Ideas submission provide the ability to hit the individual keys and produce a unique music note? It doesn’t appear so to me from the Ideas page, so what were people expecting LEGO to do?

This is a centrepiece, not a set.

Absolutely stunning, as someone who does not play an instrument, the depth and beauty of this piece means it just made my purchase list.

The comments around 'does the set make a noise' are hilarious and if you want to make a sound, buy a cheap keyboard, non-problem solved.

@Angel_Clanger said:
"Was very intrigued by this set, then discovered two things that instantly put me off: 1) It works with an App, :-( & 2) The price - Way too much... Really should have just made this a beautiful model of a Grand Piano and not effectively doubled the price adding the (gimmicky) piano player / app based novelty stuff in there. For not much over the £320 price tag you can buy a full size 88-note weighted digital piano."

I'm not trying to be a smart aleck but do you know for the price of the Lego Lamborghini one can actually buy four real tires for a car?

This is not intended to be an alternative to an actual musical instrument. And I am not singling you out; I have read the same sentiment in many comments on this and other sites. I honestly find it bizarre. Are people expecting the soon-to-be-released Lego Nintendo console to play games? Will they denigrate it or buy and return it when it doesn't?

@Davian said:

I'm not trying to be a smart aleck but do you know for the price of the Lego Lamborghini one can actually buy four real tires for a car?

I didnt know a lamborghini was just 4 tires....

@ChocolateCrisps said:
"From the article on The Brothers Brick (https://www.brothers-brick.com/2020/07/23/lego-ideas-21323-grand-piano-makes-music-starting-aug-1st-news/), it's clear that this set can't actually detect which key you're pressing, but just responds to any key press when producing the music.

"The piano can be played in either a “user play” toy piano mode (where hitting any key produces the next note in a selected song) or in an “auto-play” mode (where the piano moves randomized keys while the app produces music like a player piano).""

The whole thing falls down by this; it's a very expensive piece of kit with a play-along function more suitable for a interactive toy for a two-year-old.
I like the idea of all the operating levers and linkages- it'd be a great silent automaton for about half the price if the depth of the piano body was reduced by half and the electronics was got rid of.
Not that I'm that bothered, I'm never likely to pay more than £120 for a LEGO model. The whole psychology of paying huge amounts of money for stuff like this must be an internet phenomenon.
I guess once you've spent a lot of money on one really desirable set, you've passed a mental barrier and go on to buy more stuff: a bit like gambling.
I wonder if anybody's done a study.

@Montyh7 : Sorry but to me "full control of the musical notes and piano keys" is not the same as pressing any key at random to hear the next predefined note of a song.

@Montyh7 : I'm perfectly aware that it's the app that creates the sound you hear, that's not my point. The point is that the press release makes it seem like you can play the piano like a real piano with the app even though you can't - which Lego Design Lead Sam Johnson has confirmed in an interview with The Brothers Brick.

Didn't know where to start.
There are better ways to spend EUR350 on Lego
There are better ways to spend EUR350 on musical instruments.

This is a waste of money.

What I would have bought:
* For this price: a piano model that makes real musical sound (custom-sized xylophone style blocks instead of piano string are fine)
* A stunning looking piano model on a smaller scale at a much lower price.

@guachi said:
"I would rather have had the cute little fish tank.

On the other hand, my 2020 Lego want list is noticeably smaller than prior years. So Lego is saving me money!

Thanks, Lego!"

Same here. It's becoming high price set overkill. The more they throw on the market, the fewer I want.

I still haven't even bought the Book Store, let alone the Tree House or the Barracuda Bay. And those are the only three high price sets I am currently really interested in. Perhaps around Brick Friday in November. Or when there is some other sizable discount to be had.