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Lego is really a shadow of what it once was. Brand partnerships seem more important than the quality and fun/playability of the products. It's becoming more and
by V__ 5y ago
Lego is really a shadow of what it once was. Brand partnerships seem more important than the quality and fun/playability of the products. It's becoming more and more a collectors toy rather than something for kids to play with.
- dagw 5y agoMore charitably, those brand partnerships and $700 collector sets is the thing that let them avoid bankruptcy, become profitable, and still be able to also sell toys for kids to play with.
- Sohcahtoa82 5y agoI've always considered the $700 collector sets to not be toys. They're models that will be built and put on display rather than played with, and will never be torn down to be added to the big bucket of Legos.
- MattRix 5y agoSets like this are clearly designed for adult collectors, but they they still have lots of fun kits for kids. I’d argue that some branded sets like the Mario series are more interesting and fun than almost any sets from the past (other than technic and mindstorms).
- bennyp101 5y agoNonsense - there is no reason they can't provide display type models for people who enjoy building them to showcase (Like Airfix models for instance), whilst still providing the standard build-destroy-change cycle of products. My kids are getting into Lego currently, and the quality is just as good as it has been. My Lego works perfectly with their Lego, and is just as fun! My wife has been buying the Harry Potter Lego, because she likes to build them and display them, whilst I like to dig out old instructions and build old stuff with the kids, which they can change and tweak. Swings and roundabouts etc
- bluetomcat 5y agoThe present core "child themes" (City, Ninjago, Creator) are a far cry from the golden era during the 1990s (Castle, Pirates, Space). Back then, most bigger sets had baseplates (flat or 3D), the latter primarily used with castles and fortresses. You could easily combine sets from the same theme from different years and build something completely new which feels like a new set from the same theme. The variety of parts and colours wasn't so huge. With a modern theme like Ninjago, most of the sets are some imaginary vehicles with very specific parts and colours. You could probably build a new vehicle from the same set, but combining different sets is much less enjoyable. The few sets with buildings have no baseplates and the structures feel very airy and unharmonic.
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- the_mitsuhiko 5y agoI don't agree with that. The lego sets of the last few years were the best I ever built. They have increased tremendously in quality of the build steps and manuals.
- fpgaminer 5y agoThe modern LEGO landscape is the best it's ever been, IMO. The Saturn V set is absolutely incredible, and for a kid the manual comes with a wealth of knowledge about the early space program. The NES set has a TV with a moving Mario level. A _moving_ Mario level. It's insane. My mind is blown as an adult; I can't imagine what child me would have done with that engineering knowledge. I haven't built the piano nor the typewriter yet, but from what I've seen they are similarly impressive sets.