Name: Skrall
Brand: LEGO
SKU: 8978-1
Rating: 79 (5 reviews)

Skrall is LEGO set 8978-1. It has a score of 79. This is average compared to all other sets. The set is recommended by 1 reviews, based on 3 scored reviews and 5 reviews total. It is ranked in the bottom 45.18% scored sets on Brick Insights. We know this set was released in 2009, and it is categorised in Bionicle.

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Recommendations

Avoid 33%

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Price Per Part (PPP)

better

Average PPP for Constraction in 2009 is 0.32. PPP for this set is 0.31, 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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We do not currently know how the average price per minifig for this set compares to other sets.

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.

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Review breakdown

Scored reviews

amazon.com Recommendation: meh 4.5 / 5 → 90 / 100

Brickset Recommendation: yes 4.4 / 5 → 88 / 100

Lugnet Recommendation: no 60 / 100 → 60 / 100

Unscored reviews

Eurobricks

BZPower

Set information

Set ID: 8978-1
Name: Skrall
Parts: 50

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

Price Per Part (USD):
Original: 0.26
Inflation adjusted: 0.31

More sets:

2009 Bionicle Glatorian

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amazon.com

Recommendation: meh 4.5 / 5 from 7 reviews

it's a lego bionicle, was shipped quickly, packaged as described. son loved putting it together. what more is there to say?

This score from amazon.com is an aggregate of 7 reviewers. The snippet above represent only one of them.

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Brickset

Recommendation: yes 4.4 / 5 from 19 reviews

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Lugnet

Recommendation: no 60 / 100 from 3 reviews

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Eurobricks

by Corvus

Due to his build, Skrall has a hard time looking up, which lead to some inconveniences while posing. The swords on his arms also get in the way every once in a while, although they're not a problem. If it were real life, however, I wouldn't be suprised if he cut his own head off with them.

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BZPower

by Andrew

I admit that despite its shortcomings, Skrall is not a bad set with its $12.99 price tag; granted, I am probably not likely to buy many sets at that price. It could be argued that the original Toa cost about half as much, but we should also be aware that most of them came with fewer pieces; then again, with only about a third of the set having new pieces anyway, I do not know if it is really worth it.

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