Name: Gateway of the Squid
Brand: LEGO
SKU: 8061-1
Rating: 73 (6 reviews)

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Recommendations

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Price Per Part (PPP)

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Average PPP for System in 2010 is 0.37. PPP for this set is 0.13, which is better.

All prices are in $USD, adjusted for inflation. This set is compared to other sets categorised as System. 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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Average PPM for System in 2010 is 14.83. PPM for this set is 15.63, which is worse.

All prices are in $USD, adjusted for inflation. This set is compared to other sets categorised as System. 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.

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Review breakdown

Scored reviews

amazon.com Recommendation: meh 4.2 / 5 → 84 / 100

Brickset Recommendation: meh 3.9 / 5 → 78 / 100

Lugnet Recommendation: meh 69 / 100 → 69 / 100

Brickpicker Recommendation: no 5.9 / 10 → 59 / 100

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Set information

Set ID: 8061-1
Name: Gateway of the Squid
Parts: 354
Minifigs: 3

Retail price (USD):
Original: 39.99
Inflation adjusted: 46.89

Price Per Part (USD):
Original: 0.11
Inflation adjusted: 0.13

Price Per Minifig (USD):
Original: 13.33
Inflation adjusted: 15.63

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amazon.com

Recommendation: meh 4.2 / 5 from 14 reviews

My 7 year old and I built this together. He loved the hidden traps and swinging gates. It seems to have more moving parts than I am used to in lego sets (I always thought of bionicles as having the contraptions rather than lego sets) but in spite of having so many moving parts it seems durable. Plus the Atlantis series characters are really fun.

This score from amazon.com is an aggregate of 14 reviewers. The snippet above represent only one of them.

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Brickset

Recommendation: meh 3.9 / 5 from 11 reviews

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Lugnet

Recommendation: meh 69 / 100 from 7 reviews

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Brickpicker

Recommendation: no 5.9 / 10 from 1 review

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Eurobricks

by yellost

All in all, it's a really nice set. The gateway itself isn't much. It's well designed but I don't think I'll keep it built for long. Depends on whether they make new buildings to go along, I guess. But the monsters are really good and of, course, the minifigs are absolutely fantastic. It gives me great hope for what's to come if they do more with this theme.

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by parchioso

After completing 8061 Gateway of the Squid, I would say the overall impression is not really that good, the minifigs, which includes the Squid warrior and divers, are quite impressive, especially the very cool Squid warrior, but the squids and the temple are disappointing.

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