These sites track amazon and a few big chain stores for Lego prices. If you're persistent, you can do quite well.
http://pricenbricks.com/
http://brickset.com/

Also, now that the weather has turned too cold for hiking with my daughter, I let her roam Toys R Us instead. I don't really like the shop, myself. But in the two months we've been visiting, I've bought several boxes of Lego at a third or a quarter of Lego release prices (not the marked up Toys R Us prices). I keep a pile of boxes at home for my own kids, nephews, gifts, and visitors.

I got a few of those $90 dragons for $32 each.
A few $40 Chima sets for $10 each.
And a whole stack of Galaxy Quest stuff for a song.

I never feel like the stuff will go to waste. And when I consider what $100 of college vs $100 of Lego will do for my kids educationally, I don't sweat the expense.

edit:
Just to be clear, I said nephews only because I don't have any nieces. Nieces (when they exist) should totally receive Lego, too.

Hmmm i have a lego game on PS2, it was either indiana jones or star wars 2, and... i don't know... It looked like it had the main elements but felt shallow somehow. Sad to say i really lost interest in them...

But these that are added on GoG, i can tell i want to give all of them a chance, so don't quote me off as anti-lego :P

I meant the LEGO video games. And yeah, I remember dozens of painful moments from playing with LEGO as a kid myself. But I think I got more injuries from Transformers which refused to transform. :P

Sorry missed the point, little tired... :P I had those Transformers too but they used to break apart often so in the end my parents bought more lego for me - such indestructible toys. :D

I never enjoyed lego's as a child really, but if the games are themed with something I like, like Batman or HP... I'll play them for sure.

It's a shame, LEGO has become something, only rich people can afford. Sure, there are the small LEGO sets but who the fuck wants those when there is a Star Wars Death Star LEGO set.

Become? The sets are probably more affordable now than they were 30 years ago. Most of that has to do with the extensive amount of automation that LEGO has built into the production line. Very, very little of the work is done by people, it's all robots. I recommend you check out a copy of the documentary about them as it really gets to the heart of things like that.

LEGO bricks themselves are expensive to produce, there's incredibly tight tolerances that need to be met. If they're too tight, then they won't fit together properly, and if they're too loose, then they fall apart with no effort. It's actually quite impressive if you think about it.
Oh great, now I'm going to have to live in a house made completely out of legos.

Also best father-daughter bonding experience. I love playing them with my 11-year-old daughter. The games are fun and no one gets irritated. She can play Smash Bros. Wii U with my 20-year-old son if she wants a challenge. I don't know why, my reflexes just can't handle that game.

I watched the walkthrough for the house and thought it was a stupid idea. Interesting and niche, and maybe even workable with some limitations, but otherwise stupid for a variety of reasons. For inner walls where you might want to do renovations or accesses and replace drywall? Sure. Ceiling panels (to a degree)? Sure.. Outer wall, ceiling and floor? No, it's stupid.

Too bad anyone associated with a major league has yet to get out of the bushy loin jungle that EA sports these days.

I guess my memory has failed me then or I just had more money in the past to spend so LEGO seemed cheaper in the past. OR maybe LEGO seems more expensive today because of inflation? I'm sure you are right though.

LEGO games are fun when played with someone else, although Island and City: Undercover are fun in their own rights. LEGO City actually is genuinely hilarious from time to time. LEGO Star Wars II was a lot of fun for me and my siblings, even one who I don't get along with, because it had blasters and character customization as well as goofy humor and simple, fun level design. Others said it better, but I like these games too, even if I only own three.

With regards to real LEGO, I never owned a lot. I did like them at school, though.

The size of the average (commonly available) set has grown significantly since I was a kid.

The largest set I had was about 600 pieces, and that was about as big as toyshops offered back then. Even the big box sets back then were 300-400 pieces. Now, that is a mid-range piece count. The big chains now commonly stock many sets much larger than that.

So yeah, a mid-range set today might seem more expensive, but if you look up piece counts for sets from your memory, you may find that today's sets are much larger.

Yeah. I agree with his claim. LEGO is more affordable now that it used to be 10-20 years ago. At least in Europe that seems to be the case.