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Maybe a good time to ask...what do you actually do with lego bricks once you've built whatever is on the box? I have a terrible imagination, and I find the repl

Maybe a good time to ask...what do you actually do with lego bricks once you've built whatever is on the box? I have a terrible imagination, and I find the replayability factor abysmal with these kits. I'm sure there are people who can take a box of 500+ random pieces and have fun, and I wish I could as well. These things just never clicked for me.

wingerlang 5y ago
I have one random lego knock off item on my shelf, it's a monkey. I don't particularly like legos, or monkeys for that matter, but I keep it because it was pretty fun to build it and it reminds me of that. Seems like you could amplify this by about a million with a set that is both intricate and of a subject you are really into. Or disassemble it and make new stuff. As a kid we never had sets, it was all in a big pile.
jedimastert 5y ago
There's two directions you can go: 1) you could just glue the pieces together and keep it as a model. This can also apply to models you find online. 2) you can sort and sell or give them to someone who will enjoy them. Sourcing sorted pieces is actually a big function of the used market. It's perfectly acceptable to not enjoy a kind of toy. To each there own. I also tend to struggle with open-world games if there isn't some sort of goals set up
Daneel_ 5y ago
I build a lot of technic models that have functions. I like to both improve and motorise them, or use them as a base to make a model closer to something I want. I like truck cranes and 4WD/trial trucks the most
aksss 5y ago
We had thousands of pooled pieces between my set of friends when young and had whole worlds we constructed. Vehicles, ships, spacecraft, cities, fortresses, whole dramas. Can’t do that anymore, but I think programming satisfies similar imaginative creativity. I’ve recently started to integrate the physical work back in to this world via electronics and having a blast with it.
greyhair 5y ago
When my son was really interested in Lego, he built each kit exactly once, admired it for a couple days, then immediately took it back apart, and put all the pieces into one giant bin. After that, he was always building stuff from his own imagination, using combinations from various kits. He and his older sister used to film short stop animations with the things he built. It was crazy. The people that bought him kits as gifts wanted to see the finished kits when they visited, and he could never quite understand why, when it was so much more fun to just play with the pieces.
- animal531 5y ago
  When I was a kid I would built the kit when I got it. After playing with it (e.g. as a car, house, helicopter or whatever) then I'd take it apart and build my own things (houses, towns, spaceships etc). Sometimes they'd be static, or other times I'd try to use the pieces in a way they weren't intended, for example to create a sliding gate that a motorcycle could drive through (based on a tv show at the time) etc. Then once a year during our big December holiday I would sort all my Lego and then rebuild all the original kits and play with them again. I only ever lost 1 piece of Lego, a flat red 4x1 which I accidentally swallowed (which was funny because I really struggle with taking medications). Forever after my fire truck had a missing side piece.
prawn 5y ago
I've found the 3-in-1 Creator kits can provide more play opportunities for kids. My 9yo son will regularly dismantle and rebuild sets, but also make random things. Sometimes if we're playing together, we start with a 4x4 plate and make micro worlds with various themes - a snow scene, lair with lavafall, space tower, forest setting. Or we pick a colour scheme and each make little robots or mechs. Or make an alien in each colour. A fun game we tried recently was to isolate all the pieces from a set. Then I was blindfolded and my son faced away from me with the instructions and had to describe the instructions/pieces well enough for me to make the set. Good team building game. Yet to try reversing the roles.

wingerlang 5y ago

I have one random lego knock off item on my shelf, it's a monkey. I don't particularly like legos, or monkeys for that matter, but I keep it because it was pretty fun to build it and it reminds me of that. Seems like you could amplify this by about a million with a set that is both intricate and of a subject you are really into. Or disassemble it and make new stuff. As a kid we never had sets, it was all in a big pile.

jedimastert 5y ago

There's two directions you can go: 1) you could just glue the pieces together and keep it as a model. This can also apply to models you find online. 2) you can sort and sell or give them to someone who will enjoy them. Sourcing sorted pieces is actually a big function of the used market. It's perfectly acceptable to not enjoy a kind of toy. To each there own. I also tend to struggle with open-world games if there isn't some sort of goals set up

Daneel_ 5y ago

I build a lot of technic models that have functions. I like to both improve and motorise them, or use them as a base to make a model closer to something I want. I like truck cranes and 4WD/trial trucks the most

aksss 5y ago

We had thousands of pooled pieces between my set of friends when young and had whole worlds we constructed. Vehicles, ships, spacecraft, cities, fortresses, whole dramas. Can’t do that anymore, but I think programming satisfies similar imaginative creativity. I’ve recently started to integrate the physical work back in to this world via electronics and having a blast with it.

greyhair 5y ago

When my son was really interested in Lego, he built each kit exactly once, admired it for a couple days, then immediately took it back apart, and put all the pieces into one giant bin. After that, he was always building stuff from his own imagination, using combinations from various kits. He and his older sister used to film short stop animations with the things he built. It was crazy. The people that bought him kits as gifts wanted to see the finished kits when they visited, and he could never quite understand why, when it was so much more fun to just play with the pieces.

animal531 5y ago
When I was a kid I would built the kit when I got it. After playing with it (e.g. as a car, house, helicopter or whatever) then I'd take it apart and build my own things (houses, towns, spaceships etc). Sometimes they'd be static, or other times I'd try to use the pieces in a way they weren't intended, for example to create a sliding gate that a motorcycle could drive through (based on a tv show at the time) etc. Then once a year during our big December holiday I would sort all my Lego and then rebuild all the original kits and play with them again. I only ever lost 1 piece of Lego, a flat red 4x1 which I accidentally swallowed (which was funny because I really struggle with taking medications). Forever after my fire truck had a missing side piece.

prawn 5y ago

I've found the 3-in-1 Creator kits can provide more play opportunities for kids. My 9yo son will regularly dismantle and rebuild sets, but also make random things. Sometimes if we're playing together, we start with a 4x4 plate and make micro worlds with various themes - a snow scene, lair with lavafall, space tower, forest setting. Or we pick a colour scheme and each make little robots or mechs. Or make an alien in each colour. A fun game we tried recently was to isolate all the pieces from a set. Then I was blindfolded and my son faced away from me with the instructions and had to describe the instructions/pieces well enough for me to make the set. Good team building game. Yet to try reversing the roles.