No, seriously, why are lego prices so high? I mean I know oil is a commodity nowadays but come on, $200 for some specially molded pieces of plastic?
lego has a high standard for what pieces are acceptable. also not all plastic qualities are the same. the reason you never have to deal with parts not fitting together tightly like maybe some other brands is because lego has an incredibly low margin of error and uses high quality plastic
The moulds used in production are accurate to within two-thousandth of a millimeter (0.002 mm). As a testament of the company's high quality standards, LEGO claims that all its pieces made from 1958 till now, regardless of its origin, remain fully compatible with one another.
text ripped from this articlethink about that, lego has to accurately color and shape hundreds to thousands of bricks per set so that they are compatible with no issue.
plus as camel just said, licensed sets will always be a little more expensive for the amount of bricks that you get.
just because lego are considered a toy company people think it's ridiculous that they have plenty of sets that are over 100 dollars, but i don't see lego as any different from any other hobby that requires hundreds of dollars put into it.
I'm not sure if a part count for the Y-Wing set has been released but considering it's $200 it should have roughly 2,000 individual bricks that all fit together perfectly. maybe less considering it's a licensed star wars set.
edit: also if i remember correctly, in the early 2000's they were actually under-pricing a lot of their sets and were facing bankruptcy before they raised the price again.
