Oh man! I missed that post! It's excellent. My kids are right in the Lego years and you are totally right: they're pretty quality toys.

It does bring up an interesting thing point about inflation adjusted prices, though. It seems to me the sets you used as your examples are equivalent to sets that cost more than $120 these days.

I experience this phenomenon every time I hear about inflation a adjusted prices: they always seem startlingly low to me.

This kind of gets to the distinction you made in this post about the gold coin. "75GBP in today's money, but trades for 400-500 on eBay." I realize that there may be a collector's premium, but i wonder why is it that inflation adjusted pricing seems so much lower than the prices I feel like I experience day to day.