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A little off topic, but I recently found out that you essentially can't buy plain old legos+ anymore. I wanted to buy some as a gift and I ended up having to bu

A little off topic, but I recently found out that you essentially can't buy plain old legos+ anymore. I wanted to buy some as a gift and I ended up having to buy knock offs because the lego company effectively doesn't sell them anymore. + I.e. full height 2x2, 2x3, 2x4

enriquto 9y ago
I don't know where you come from, but in france you can easily buy sets that contain lots of basic bricks (full height 2x2, 2x4, etc), and you can buy them individually, in large batches. It has never been easier than today to find those pieces.
ghostbrainalpha 9y ago
Is this what you are looking for from Toy's R Us? https://www.toysrus.com/product?productId=45199456&source=CAPLA_DF:45199456:TRUS&cagpspn=plat_123169BE&camp=PLAPPCG-_-PID123169BE:TRUS&gclid=Cj0KCQiAieTUBRCaARIsAHeLDCQL_R0M1h-e5mDcriTIqIesKUMQKUDxRjuf8xQoaEYoyjVca6-0zNIaAhplEALw_wcB https://www.toysrus.com/product?productId=45199456&source=CA...
- bradleyjg 9y ago
  That's the closest I found, but it still has plenty of wheels, doors, windows, half height pieces, round pieces, eyes, knobs, flat on top pieces, etc, etc, etc. The child I was buying for has some sets like that, but I wanted to buy just a large number of regular lego blocks for freeform play. I couldn't find anything on their website like that other than individually picking out single blocks.
  - Avshalom 9y ago
    Pretty sure that's never actually been a thing.
    - ghostbrainalpha 9y ago
      The Lego Store near me has bins separated by color. You can buy as many pieces as you need of each size. Kind of like how you buy bulk candy or nuts at Whole Foods.
      - mcphage 9y ago
        For the price they charge for that, though, they'd be better off buying one of the creative line boxes and throwing out all of the non-rectangular pieces. Which would be dumb to do, but apparently they want those pieces and none others.
    - panzagl 9y ago
      Yeah the 'basic' sets I got in the 70's had plenty of wheels, slopes, windows, and those weird articulated arm people- the mythic age of children building everything out of rectangles never really existed.
    - icebraining 9y ago
      It seems they have: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=5576-1 https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=5576... https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=6177-1 https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=6177...
  - punchclockhero 9y ago
    Sometimes I see Ebay sellers selling random bricks by the pound.
    - megaman22 9y ago
      This is one of the best ways to go. If you're lucky, you can come upon somebody who isn't a professional seller that's getting rid of a whole collection, and snag an entire tub for < $100.
    - bradleyjg 9y ago
      This is really helpful, thanks. Not sure why I didn't think of it.
  - dragonwriter 9y ago
    All those specialty pieces are useful in freeform play and have definitely been a part of the non-specific Lego boxes since at least when I was getting them as a kid starting in the 1970s.
bitwize 9y ago
There's a Lego store near me where I can buy pieces by the spadeful. I'm not sure what you're on about.
giarc 9y ago
https://shop.lego.com/en-CA/LEGO-Creative-Supplement-10693 https://shop.lego.com/en-CA/LEGO-Creative-Supplement-10693 This looks pretty basic.
devmunchies 9y ago
Go to any LEGO store and they have bins where you can pick and choose single pieces.
Adamantcheese 9y ago
You can buy individual bricks off Bricklink. It's basically Ebay but exclusively for LEGO.
- DanBC 9y ago
  That's a painful way to buy half a kilo of Lego standard blocks though. Maybe parent poster could buy a couple of kg of Lego from Ebay, then sort and wash it. The wheels, doors, etc can be donated to local charities / goodwill etc.
52-6F-62 9y ago
You can visit the online Lego store and pick out any number of any colour of the plain (or any other) bricks that you want. https://shop.lego.com/en-CA/Pick-a-Brick https://shop.lego.com/en-CA/Pick-a-Brick There's a search filter. You can filter by colour and by name, for ex: 2x4
dragonwriter 9y ago
> little off topic, but I recently found out that you essentially can't buy plain old legos+ anymore. Sure you can. If you just want non-themed sets heavy in classic pieces, they are sold as Lego “Creative Box” or “Creative Set” in various sizes [0]; if you want specific pieces in the common sizes, you can go into a Lego Store and handpick want you want from bins in the wall and pay by the bag. [0] e.g., https://shop.lego.com/en-US/LEGO-Large-Creative-Brick-Box-10698 https://shop.lego.com/en-US/LEGO-Large-Creative-Brick-Box-10...

enriquto 9y ago

I don't know where you come from, but in france you can easily buy sets that contain lots of basic bricks (full height 2x2, 2x4, etc), and you can buy them individually, in large batches. It has never been easier than today to find those pieces.

ghostbrainalpha 9y ago

Is this what you are looking for from Toy's R Us? https://www.toysrus.com/product?productId=45199456&source=CAPLA_DF:45199456:TRUS&cagpspn=plat_123169BE&camp=PLAPPCG-_-PID123169BE:TRUS&gclid=Cj0KCQiAieTUBRCaARIsAHeLDCQL_R0M1h-e5mDcriTIqIesKUMQKUDxRjuf8xQoaEYoyjVca6-0zNIaAhplEALw_wcB https://www.toysrus.com/product?productId=45199456&source=CA...

bradleyjg 9y ago
That's the closest I found, but it still has plenty of wheels, doors, windows, half height pieces, round pieces, eyes, knobs, flat on top pieces, etc, etc, etc. The child I was buying for has some sets like that, but I wanted to buy just a large number of regular lego blocks for freeform play. I couldn't find anything on their website like that other than individually picking out single blocks.
- Avshalom 9y ago
  Pretty sure that's never actually been a thing.
  - ghostbrainalpha 9y ago
    The Lego Store near me has bins separated by color. You can buy as many pieces as you need of each size. Kind of like how you buy bulk candy or nuts at Whole Foods.
    - mcphage 9y ago
      For the price they charge for that, though, they'd be better off buying one of the creative line boxes and throwing out all of the non-rectangular pieces. Which would be dumb to do, but apparently they want those pieces and none others.
  - panzagl 9y ago
    Yeah the 'basic' sets I got in the 70's had plenty of wheels, slopes, windows, and those weird articulated arm people- the mythic age of children building everything out of rectangles never really existed.
  - icebraining 9y ago
    It seems they have: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=5576-1 https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=5576... https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=6177-1 https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=6177...
- punchclockhero 9y ago
  Sometimes I see Ebay sellers selling random bricks by the pound.
  - megaman22 9y ago
    This is one of the best ways to go. If you're lucky, you can come upon somebody who isn't a professional seller that's getting rid of a whole collection, and snag an entire tub for < $100.
  - bradleyjg 9y ago
    This is really helpful, thanks. Not sure why I didn't think of it.
- dragonwriter 9y ago
  All those specialty pieces are useful in freeform play and have definitely been a part of the non-specific Lego boxes since at least when I was getting them as a kid starting in the 1970s.

bitwize 9y ago

There's a Lego store near me where I can buy pieces by the spadeful. I'm not sure what you're on about.

giarc 9y ago

https://shop.lego.com/en-CA/LEGO-Creative-Supplement-10693 https://shop.lego.com/en-CA/LEGO-Creative-Supplement-10693 This looks pretty basic.

devmunchies 9y ago

Go to any LEGO store and they have bins where you can pick and choose single pieces.

Adamantcheese 9y ago

You can buy individual bricks off Bricklink. It's basically Ebay but exclusively for LEGO.

DanBC 9y ago
That's a painful way to buy half a kilo of Lego standard blocks though. Maybe parent poster could buy a couple of kg of Lego from Ebay, then sort and wash it. The wheels, doors, etc can be donated to local charities / goodwill etc.

52-6F-62 9y ago

You can visit the online Lego store and pick out any number of any colour of the plain (or any other) bricks that you want. https://shop.lego.com/en-CA/Pick-a-Brick https://shop.lego.com/en-CA/Pick-a-Brick There's a search filter. You can filter by colour and by name, for ex: 2x4

dragonwriter 9y ago

> little off topic, but I recently found out that you essentially can't buy plain old legos+ anymore. Sure you can. If you just want non-themed sets heavy in classic pieces, they are sold as Lego “Creative Box” or “Creative Set” in various sizes [0]; if you want specific pieces in the common sizes, you can go into a Lego Store and handpick want you want from bins in the wall and pay by the bag. [0] e.g., https://shop.lego.com/en-US/LEGO-Large-Creative-Brick-Box-10698 https://shop.lego.com/en-US/LEGO-Large-Creative-Brick-Box-10...