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I don't get it. You complain that a 5000 piece lego set is movie themed, when the only thing movie themed are the minifigs and the box it came in. As kids eve

by toast76 15y ago

I don't get it. You complain that a 5000 piece lego set is movie themed, when the only thing movie themed are the minifigs and the box it came in. As kids every single lego set we had was built into the "model" precisely once, and then dumped in with the rest of the lego. We kept the instructions, but would never rebuild the original set. That's hardly the point of Lego. As an adult I have a huge collection of Star Wars lego sets, including the Imperial Star Destroyer and Death Star. When my son is old enough (he's not yet 3), they'll get dismantled and put in a bucket all together. From that day on they WILL be generic lego pieces. The fact that they came in a Star Wars box is then irrelevant.

stinkytaco 15y ago
Except so many of those pieces are not generic. There's dozens of color and shape specific pieces in there. Things that will never go on anything else. That said, you can still buy generic lego boxes.
- toast76 15y ago
  No, actually. These days there are very few non-generic pieces. If we're talking bionicles, then yes. But 99% of pieces in any modern set (branded or otherwise) are generic. The exception is usually things like fighter windshields (if they're called that in space?). e.g. The Star Destroyer engines are actually wheels presumably borrowed from some other set. The Death Star as far as I can tell has no "special" pieces, nor the AT-AT, AT-ST or X-wing. The millenium falcon has a few special bits, but even they look repurposed from some other set.
- einhverfr 15y ago
  Except so many of those pieces are not generic. That you think these pieces will never go with anything else shows you aren't thinking about what you can do with them, only what they are intended to be. Thats the beauty of lego and imagination. The piece can be anything you want it to be. Is it the exhaust of a spaceship or the ear of an alien space monster? You decide!

by toast76 15y ago

stinkytaco 15y ago

Except so many of those pieces are not generic. There's dozens of color and shape specific pieces in there. Things that will never go on anything else. That said, you can still buy generic lego boxes.

toast76 15y ago
No, actually. These days there are very few non-generic pieces. If we're talking bionicles, then yes. But 99% of pieces in any modern set (branded or otherwise) are generic. The exception is usually things like fighter windshields (if they're called that in space?). e.g. The Star Destroyer engines are actually wheels presumably borrowed from some other set. The Death Star as far as I can tell has no "special" pieces, nor the AT-AT, AT-ST or X-wing. The millenium falcon has a few special bits, but even they look repurposed from some other set.
einhverfr 15y ago
Except so many of those pieces are not generic. That you think these pieces will never go with anything else shows you aren't thinking about what you can do with them, only what they are intended to be. Thats the beauty of lego and imagination. The piece can be anything you want it to be. Is it the exhaust of a spaceship or the ear of an alien space monster? You decide!