How Lakea works

Why Lakea exists

LEGO® information is scattered across dozens of separate sources: shops, product feeds, catalogs, instruction booklets. Lakea brings this public data together into one verifiable database — prices, price history, parts, alternative builds, promotions and set information — and shows where every value comes from and why it is what it is — every price is set against the RRP and its own history. Every value can be traced back to a public source or to our own measurements. That way you can judge a "deal" yourself, instead of having to take it on trust.

Where the prices come from

• Official product feeds and APIs from retailers and their partner networks — the same data sources retailers publish for price comparators.
• For a small number of shops without a usable feed, we run our own automated price checks on their public product pages.
• Per country we only show shops that actually deliver there — otherwise a price comparison would be misleading. Where shipping costs are known, you can compare prices including shipping.

How often we measure

• The busiest sources are checked every 15 to 60 minutes; others every few hours; a handful of shops once a day.
• Set information (new sets, names, end-of-life dates) refreshes every 10 minutes via Brickset.
• Around LEGO release moments we measure extra often, so new sets and prices appear immediately.

What we record

• The current price and stock status per shop, per country.
• Every measurement is stored separately and feeds the price history per set — we do not overwrite history. A deal only gains meaning once you can place it historically.
• The lowest price ever per set, plus the moment a shop sets a new all-time low.
• Recommended retail prices (RRP) per region, so discounts are calculated against the right reference.

Where the set information comes from

• Set data (names, themes, piece counts, end-of-life dates and images) via Brickset.
• Parts lists are not taken from an external database: Lakea builds them itself, straight from the official LEGO building instruction booklets. That lets you tick off parts per set and export them to BrickLink, Brickset or LEGO Pick a Brick — for missing bricks, for example.
• Alternative build models (alt builds) via Rebrickable, automatically linked to the set whose bricks you already own.
• Indicative minifigure market values are BrickLink-derived values as published by Brickset; we show them per set, so you can see what the figures are worth individually.

Honest about the limits

• Our price history starts on 6 April 2026. We never claim more history than we have measured ourselves.
• For Amazon and eBay we only show the current price — no history. That is a condition of those partner programmes, and we stick to it.
• Lakea sells nothing itself. Every purchase runs directly through the shop. On how we earn: see our affiliate disclosure.
• Spot an error anyway? Mail info@lakea.net.

Using Lakea as a source

Journalists, researchers and bloggers are welcome to cite our figures and analyses with attribution:

Source: Lakea (lakea.net), LEGO price data, accessed [date].

Questions about the data, or interested in a larger dataset? Mail info@lakea.net.