Winter Holiday Train gives much less than similar sets

$99.99 MSRP 734 pieces 5 minifigures 4.1 / 5 from builders #30 of 33 Icons sets with 200–999 pieces 52 × 12 × 7 cm built
Winter Holiday Train box art
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24 of 100

Poor value

#30 of 33 Icons sets with 200–999 pieces

Winter Holiday Train scores 24, poor value among 33 Icons sets with 200–999 pieces. Its strongest point is minifigures per $100, better than 84% of them, and its weakest is contents per dollar (5%).

#30

Chart 1 · Among similar sets

Where it sits among 33 Icons sets with 200–999 pieces

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24

Chart 2 · The score

How the 24 is built

Each bar is how the set ranks among similar sets; the ink line is typical (50).

Contents per dollarPlastic and pieces per dollar, with each minifigure counted as $2 of contents, compared with sets of a similar size
56 pcs/$10 · 96 plastic better than 5% +4 of 75
Minifigures per $1005 minifigures for the price
3.8 per $100 better than 84% +21 of 25

86

Quality · a separate score

How builders rate it

Not part of the value score. It ranks the builder rating against sets of 200–999 pieces from every theme.

  1. 14.1out of 5 from 793 Brickset members
  2. 24.10after adding 30 ratings at the average for sets of 200–999 pieces (3.97), so a few early ratings can’t dominate
  3. 386out of 100: rated higher than 86% of sets of 200–999 pieces

$16 more

Chart 3 · The price

Is the price fair for what’s in the box?

Sets with its pieces, plastic and minifigures usually cost about $84. Each brick is $25.

$99.99
you pay

$84
sets like it usually cost

See 10254-1 on Brickset How scores work