139 pieces for twenty bucks in 2018 was a tough sell, and nothing about BASH! made it worth swallowing — this is Technic at its most forgettable.
Is the price fair?FPaying full MSRP for this was a bad deal the day it launched.
Will you love it?CA pull-back racer with no depth — fine for five minutes, forgettable after.
Holds its value?C-Moves on the secondary market like a set nobody was searching for.
True ValueF
$27
Street price
$13
Parts value
46%
Ratio
The parts alone are worth about 46% of the street price — the basis for this F price read.
What you get
Plain bricks
$1
Functional piecescalc
$12
Premium you pay
Premium over parts
$15
OverpricedYou're paying well above the parts' value — $13 of parts for a $27 price.
The Full Take
BASH! is the kind of set that exists to fill a shelf slot at a price point, not to do anything memorable. The build is short, the result is small, and Technic's usual payoff — clever mechanisms, satisfying complexity — just isn't here at this scale. There's a pull-back motor tucked in, which kids might enjoy for about ten minutes, but it's not enough to justify the ask. On the secondary market it moves like you'd expect a forgotten mini Technic racer to move: sideways. The F on price is the loudest grade here, and it's hard to argue with it — twenty dollars bought a lot more LEGO® in 2018 than this.