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I disagree about the reinvention. It may just be my advancing age showing, but when I try to buy a Christmas present for my cousin it is rather annoying that th

I disagree about the reinvention. It may just be my advancing age showing, but when I try to buy a Christmas present for my cousin it is rather annoying that the majority of the sets seem to be Star Wars or Harry Potter which to me rather defeat the point of Lego, especially since the pieces tend to be a lot more specific to the particular set than I remember from my youth. Technic has been around for 20 years or more, since I had that back in my childhood. I agree that overall it's a great toy and a great brand, I just think that they're going to have problems maintaining their current revenues if producing your own became practical, especially since it's not at all cheap in a store.

HeyLaughingBoy 15y ago
It probably is just your old age :-) I just got my 11 y-o son (yet another) Lego Star Wars set for his birthday and it's amazing the things he makes. Day 1 is just building whatever Star Wars thingy the set is about. Days 2 - infinity are taking the existing thousands of Lego blocks (that he has sorted into color-coded bins: the only organization I've ever seen him do) and building all sorts of crap out of it. So we end up with Boba Fett fighting Harry Potter on top of Hogwarts with the Indiana Jones's office addition! And all I can do is build Indy an LED lamp for his desk.