#1066 – The Price Is Wrong
Nov29
Alternate punchline: “Look, Shop@home just raised their prices again…”
Alternate punchline #2: “Yes, sir! The finest organic plastic in the land!”
It’s the sad result of the smallest denomination of LEGO currency being the $100 brick. On the plus side, a small tree costs the same as a can of soda in the Power Miner’s line…
Also, lots of new outfits for the cast in today’s strip. Most of them are from the new Harry Potter sets, or from the Collectible Minifigures lines.
Actually there are some lego coins worth 10, 20 and 30 of the lego currency, but then again, no minifiure can hold them.
Is that price sign photoshopped or an actual sticker?
@ D. Freeman: there’s also coins of 40. And minifigs CAN hold coins, just as long as they hold 2 at a time.
@refysnode — that’s a genuine sign from the Winter Bakery set.
Maybe LEGO currency has been debased so much to counter inflation that $100 LEGO dollars is actually approx. $40 US dollars, or £25 UK pounds, which is about what a real Xmas tree would cost these days (here at least).
£25 for a can of soda is a bit much though. Also, since when have vending machine been able to accept paper money?
@Louise: Plenty of vending machines here in Australia take notes.
Some of them even give change, if you’re lucky.
Heck, there are vending machines here in the US that even take credit.
And soda can get to $1.35.
two questions, where are the little guys and shouldn’t scotch be freezing to death?
Well you live and learn! That’s cool… must work on megnetic scanning or something.
The credit one I can understand and have seen (assuming you mean credit card) – works the same way as any credit card reader.
“Finest cheese shop in the land, sir!”
Well, technicly the trees are just as organic as the people. And the bricks. And the butter. And every component of darth vader.
^^ Well, it’s certainly uncontaminated by cheese… you do have cheese?
Frobot looks cute in that new outfit…
“It’s [cheese] is a bit runnier then you like sir.”
“Oh, the cat’s just eaten it [cheese].”
Plastic is organic. At least so far as it is made of hydrocarbons. 😀
Actually, I’ve been wondering why Christmas trees in the LEGO multiverse cost $100-$200 in the set that stand comes with. Maybe it’s price inflation, like what started the French Revolution??
PS, Chris: Whiskey looks good in the Skateboarder’s hoodie. It suits him.