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An enormous amount of effort has gone into making Lego instructions as clear as they are, regardless of what age you are and what language you speak. They reall

• corrral 4y ago
  The new ones are much clearer than they used to be in the 80s and 90s. I'm convinced the old-style ones were the reason I buried the needle the one time I was given a cognitive test that specifically tested spatial reasoning. The old sets' instructions were basically 3d spot-the-difference puzzles, in which orientation might even change between states, so they were pretty much training for that kind of test. The new ones have a little of that, but a lot more arrows pointing things out, little insets highlighting important parts, et c. Plus they put the pieces in numbered bags so you don't have them all out at once, for medium-sized or larger sets! Much, much easier than they used to be. Flip side is the old ones used larger pieces, on average. The modern sets are all fiddly, tiny bricks, which does make them a little harder to assemble (and much harder—nearly impossible—to repair from memory if they're damaged during play)
• Swizec 4y ago
  Now if they could print them in higher quality so I’m not constantky guessing if that’s a black piece or dark blue … Maybe I’m older and my color vision isn’t as good as it used to be, but damn it’s frustrating.
  • TylerE 4y ago
    I don’t think it’s the printing. The downloadable pdfs have the same issues
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