Name: Gresh
Brand: LEGO
SKU: 8980-1
Rating: 72 (6 reviews)

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Recommendations

Avoid 50%

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Price Per Part (PPP)

better

Average PPP for Constraction in 2009 is 0.32. PPP for this set is 0.29, which is better.

All prices are in $USD, adjusted for inflation. This set is compared to other sets categorised as Constraction. Read more about this in our article about price comparisons.

PPP is a guide, not a rule, and affected by the type of parts included. A set containing small generic parts generally have better PPP than one containing larger specialized parts.

Price Per Minifig (PPM)

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All prices are in $USD, adjusted for inflation. This set is compared to other sets categorised as Constraction. Read more about this in our article about price comparisons.

PPM only takes the number of minifigs into account and discards everything else. It's a guide, not a rule.

Review breakdown

Scored reviews

Brickset Recommendation: yes 4.5 / 5 → 90 / 100

Brickpicker Recommendation: yes 8.1 / 10 → 81 / 100

amazon.com Recommendation: no 3.3 / 5 → 66 / 100

Lugnet Recommendation: no 50 / 100 → 50 / 100

Unscored reviews

Eurobricks

BZPower

Set information

Set ID: 8980-1
Name: Gresh
Parts: 55

Retail price (USD):
Original: 12.99
Inflation adjusted: 15.48

Price Per Part (USD):
Original: 0.24
Inflation adjusted: 0.29

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Brickset

Recommendation: yes 4.5 / 5 from 12 reviews

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Brickpicker

Recommendation: yes 8.1 / 10 from 1 review

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amazon.com

Recommendation: no 3.3 / 5 from 9 reviews

Bought for my son LEGO Gresh (8980), Master of the arena! An experienced Glatorian for the jungle tribe, Gresh combines incredible speed and agility with surprising strength. His favorite move is to back flip away from a blow and fire his spiked Thornax launcher in mid-air. A tough foe in any fight! Includes one Life Counter for the new BIONICLE battle game! # Fully articulated limbs allow you to pose your Glatorian Bionicle for work, battle or display! # Ready for attack or defense his vine mask, double bladed shield and functional Thornax # launcher serve him well! # Member of the Jungle Tribe allied with #8974 Tarduk! # Includes life counter for action figure game! # Measures 7" (17cm) tall!... Perfect.

This score from amazon.com is an aggregate of 9 reviewers. The snippet above represent only one of them.

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Lugnet

Recommendation: no 50 / 100 from 2 reviews

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Eurobricks

by Corvus

Well, Gresh is a pretty great set. He's not much different from sets of old, but he's a step in the right direction with a thicker torso and not extremely skinny. However, his legs are extremely skinny (I've already modded this, maybe pics later) and his arms are too long.

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BZPower

by Andrew

Gresh is awesome, he really is. I'm not the biggest fan of the Inika build, I find that it fast became boring and stale, but Gresh tends to overcome this by being absolutly lovely, colourwise, aesthetic-wise, and he allows me to make up lots of words in reviews. He's really a nice looking figure, and the Thornax are the best launchers that I feel we've seen yet. His mask is awesome, and he just oozes personality and character, and that is, I think, the biggest plus of them all.

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