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It's no secret that Lego is marketing to adults. The botanicals sets are explicitly designed for people who want to decorate their home. Many of the "creator ex

It's no secret that Lego is marketing to adults. The botanicals sets are explicitly designed for people who want to decorate their home. Many of the "creator expert" sets show adults building the sets in the ad material. When I was a kid, I didn't treat the licensed sets as "special collectibles." I had Ferrari/Bionicle/etc sets, and all of that stuff got mixed into the same bin eventually (except one of the Ferraris, which I still have to this day). Not sure why a kid would treat any given branded set differently because of the branding, I kept the Ferrari because I like it. Sidebar: a standard measure in the Lego community is "price per piece," and the licensed sets do tend to be more costly. That's not a hard-and-fast truth, though. This blog has a great breakdown from a couple years ago: https://brickbucks.net/what-is-lego-price-per-piece/ https://brickbucks.net/what-is-lego-price-per-piece/

mcphage 4y ago
> It's no secret that Lego is marketing to adults. The botanicals sets are explicitly designed for people who want to decorate their home. Well, the “18+” labeling is a dead giveaway.
- ChuckNorris89 4y ago
  >Well, the “18+” labeling is a dead giveaway. That age warning on Lego is more useless than on porn sites.
  - mcphage 4y ago
    It’s not a warning, it’s just an indicator that it’s intended for adults. Well, that and the astronomical price tags on some of the sets.
agentwiggles 4y ago
Yeah, I've always found the trend with adult Lego fans to be a bit funny - buy the set, build it, and put it on a shelf somewhere. That's fine, you do you, AFOLs - but the way we played with Lego was we'd get a new set, build it, play with it in that form for a while, and then eventually, it got taken apart for some new idea and thrown into the bin. There are 2 or 3 30 gallon tubs at my parent's house still filled with Lego, it must be the collected output of at least 100 different sets that were given to us for birthdays, Christmas, and also bought by us when we were old enough to have our own money and young enough to spend it on Lego. We had an air hockey table in the basement that was almost always covered with a landscape of fortresses, spaceships, and weird Bionicle monsters. Good times.
- ryukoposting 4y ago
  I bought a lego set during the pandemic to keep myself occupied, but that was a one-and-done thing. A couple months ago, I bought another Lego set- an enormous 2900 piece jazz club. I still don't know where I'm actually going to put it, but it sits on my desk for now and it's fun to fiddle around with. In short, it rekindled my childhood love for Lego. Lego CAD software is really good nowadays, too. I was able to design my own flower pot for my girlfriend's Lego Botanicals flowers. I was able to order all the pieces directly from Lego, which is pretty convenient.

mcphage 4y ago

> It's no secret that Lego is marketing to adults. The botanicals sets are explicitly designed for people who want to decorate their home. Well, the “18+” labeling is a dead giveaway.

ChuckNorris89 4y ago
>Well, the “18+” labeling is a dead giveaway. That age warning on Lego is more useless than on porn sites.
- mcphage 4y ago
  It’s not a warning, it’s just an indicator that it’s intended for adults. Well, that and the astronomical price tags on some of the sets.

agentwiggles 4y ago

Yeah, I've always found the trend with adult Lego fans to be a bit funny - buy the set, build it, and put it on a shelf somewhere. That's fine, you do you, AFOLs - but the way we played with Lego was we'd get a new set, build it, play with it in that form for a while, and then eventually, it got taken apart for some new idea and thrown into the bin. There are 2 or 3 30 gallon tubs at my parent's house still filled with Lego, it must be the collected output of at least 100 different sets that were given to us for birthdays, Christmas, and also bought by us when we were old enough to have our own money and young enough to spend it on Lego. We had an air hockey table in the basement that was almost always covered with a landscape of fortresses, spaceships, and weird Bionicle monsters. Good times.

ryukoposting 4y ago
I bought a lego set during the pandemic to keep myself occupied, but that was a one-and-done thing. A couple months ago, I bought another Lego set- an enormous 2900 piece jazz club. I still don't know where I'm actually going to put it, but it sits on my desk for now and it's fun to fiddle around with. In short, it rekindled my childhood love for Lego. Lego CAD software is really good nowadays, too. I was able to design my own flower pot for my girlfriend's Lego Botanicals flowers. I was able to order all the pieces directly from Lego, which is pretty convenient.