Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens Poe's X-Wing Fighter

It looks nice, but a 100 EU for 1 simple X-wing? I thought the drastic price hike on the Minecraft sets was a fluke, but it seems they've started a trend

Indeed, the prices for Lego sets have been climbing up quite a bit. At that cost a completed toy would be better for the money.

I'm not really diggin' the look of the X-Wing and the Tie-Fighter for this movie.

717 pieces for 80 dollars is actually pretty much in line with most lego sets these days, it's not too far off from the 10 cents/piece ratio. The original x-wing was only 30 dollars, but it had 263 pieces so part of it is just that the sets are much larger and complex now then they were 15 years ago.

What does kind of suck is that they've shifted their pricing structure so there is a much larger barrier to get into these sets. With only 1 20 dollar set, and then jumping to 40+, it's not exactly cheap for children to get a few smaller sets. I would have liked if they at least did 1 battle pack and made a few more 25/30 range sets, though I'm sure there will be more announced in December.

I guess I'm just used to this kind of thing from a model kit stand point but I have to ask for something worth the price of admission akin to the "Masterpiece" grade Lego Star Destroyer and Y-Wing I have on my shelves.
For this kind of cost it better have some kind of major engineering feet beyond a gear driven wing assembly. I remember the old Lego set that came out years ago that used one with rubber bands and it too cost up to 70$ USD but it was a TRU "Exclusive" (Chaching) plus mini figs of Leia, Han, Chewie, Luke, and R2 (chaaaching.).

Sometimes Plamo's cheaper because of the work you have to do yourselves.
I just saw on another news page the words "1:144 scale Millennium Falcon" and a painted prototype.
45$... even with paint that's a lot cheaper than a Lego these days, but... dang it now I want legos....