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Yeah, nah, this is absolutely correct.

Relax dude. We've built all kinds of things out of the orginal sets. My son and I built a movie theater, spaceships, all kinds of vehicles and even a little harry potter village with multiple made-up buildings. The sets have cool custom blocks that can be used in interesting ways for your own stuff. We even used them for a couple of stop motion videos.

[TESTING @npub1cyj7...zl80] what do you think of this message about modern LEGOs?

You've got a point

So now is a good time to show you my Christmas Lego sets?

What’s so different other than being more elaborate and detailed now? I agree all the co-branding is kinda lame and causes a premium. I remember some of my childhood sets in the 80s had instructions too and we’d always build the set first and admire it for a few days, and then destroy it and build something else. Exactly what I do with my kids now

True, but you can still buy standard Lego sets.

Can relate. Had a 4k set of a building this year. It's definitely a 3D puzzle, which is cool, but yeah, it's paint by numbers completely

We build the Lego Death Star one Christmas. The book was so huge you could hardly use it. Remember thinking the same, nothing beats a big Tupperware of random Lego’s for building flying-cowboy-car-castle-submarine

Actually they're a good way to develop skills to assemble Ikea furniture 😅

Are you sure you are not mixing up Christmas with Festivus? Sounds like the airing of grievances.

You clearly haven't enough children in your life to know that Lego hits the sweet spot for the kid who enjoys the 3D puzzle just as much as the kid who builds space laser dinosaur spaceships out of the original 3D puzzle pieces. The Lego Movie gets that aspect of playing with Lego just right.

I blame the brick gluers! It's got these kids treating LEGOs rougher than ever. No like seriously I didn't even know legos were breakable as a kid. This is a bit of a metaphor for society. Also. Thank you.

Lego needs to release a line of “base kits” with basic blocks and a few specialized pieces , no instructions included The idea being to provide a foundation level of blocks that your imagination can run wild with. This isn’t possible today unless you visit a legoland store which are few and far between.

Maybe my favorite post of all time about anything.

My mom found a couple Ziploc bags of just different size wheel bricks at a garage sell. Best day ever, no fighting for a week amoungst us 4 boys...until we adjusted to the wheel inflation. God bless the mom who sorted out her kids wheels for that garage sell. Never understood why they've gone to almost every brick as custom for precosevwd designs...your right, might as well buy a model airplane kit.

Incorrect. Legos have two modes. You only get stuck in the default mode if you’re not ready for the freedom mode.

😂

If that's what you want, don't buy boxes at toy stores. Go to the Lego stores directly.

Man, I couldn’t agree more. I hate following the models. I want and I want my kids to build their own. As it turns out, they mix and match the sets and do what we used to do anyway!!!!!!

A little bird told me that there’s no physical law that makes you build the thing on the front of the box.

The Lego is a one time build then display, not for play anymore…

100%. Dump them all in a bucket and build.