My 12 year old self agreed with you. The Technical sets and Space sets were cool in a way, but had too many pre-fab parts! Lego just wasn't want it used to be.

My 12 year old self agreed with you. The Technical sets and Space sets were cool in a way, but had too many pre-fab parts! Lego just wasn't want it used to be. Might as well build models! And the prices, wow. This was about 1980, by the way.