There are Creator sets just for that, they have dinosaurs and animals which are built with individual pieces with multiple different variations, like you can build 3 completely different ones, and they’re still expensive. But dinosaurs and animals in scale with minifigures just don’t look good when built with pieces, they had molded ones since the beginning and it’s only way to have it, like how are you gonna get a wolf, rabbit or bat built with pieces to scale in with minifig and look good? Have you seen these Raptors and Pteranodon in Jurassic Park III sets way back from 2001? They look ridiculous to say the least. Proper modern dinosaurs which were introduced in 2012 is what got me to start collecting them. The problem is when they get lazy with the molds and just reuse the same parts over and over again for a completely different creature, and still put higher prices, which happened with few dinosaurs in the last few years unfortunately.
Lego has always been expensive, it got insane during the last years specifically for some reason, animals and dinosaurs do bump up the price a bit, but many sets are way too expensive even without them, just look at Star Wars.
There are Creator sets just for that, they have dinosaurs and animals which are built with individual pieces with multiple different variations, like you can build 3 completely different ones, and they’re still expensive. But dinosaurs and animals in scale with minifigures just don’t look good when built with pieces, they had molded ones since the beginning and it’s only way to have it, like how are you gonna get a wolf, rabbit or bat built with pieces to scale in with minifig and look good? Have you seen these Raptors and Pteranodon in Jurassic Park III sets way back from 2001? They look ridiculous to say the least. Proper modern dinosaurs which were introduced in 2012 is what got me to start collecting them. The problem is when they get lazy with the molds and just reuse the same parts over and over again for a completely different creature, and still put higher prices, which happened with few dinosaurs in the last few years unfortunately.
Lego has always been expensive, it got insane during the last years specifically for some reason, animals and dinosaurs do bump up the price a bit, but many sets are way too expensive even without them, just look at Star Wars.