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It's less reusable than in the past due to the sheer variety of pieces and colours. It's not just rectangular bricks, windows, doors and glasses anymore. The ma
by bluetomcat 3y ago
It's less reusable than in the past due to the sheer variety of pieces and colours. It's not just rectangular bricks, windows, doors and glasses anymore. The majority of bricks are small, angled, curved, sloped pieces for very specific applications. It allows impressively finished models with a huge piece count, but the genericity of parts for "general construction" just isn't there.
- ulrikrasmussen 3y agoAnd for this reason I think that LEGO actually kind of sucks now compared to when I was a kid. I think it's far more difficult for my kids to just start building something because all the bricks that they get from the LEGO sets are special. At one point we sat down and separated out all the "standard" bricks from the special ones and put them in a separate container and that has made them more interested in starting creative builds on their own. I think LEGO's financial crisis in the late 90's and early 00's ended when they started making more themed bricks, especially licensed themes such as Star Wars. And this is the problem: In order for LEGO to be profitable they need to keep producing novelty sets rather than sets with standard bricks, and that is fundamentally at odds with being sustainable
- gaganyaan 3y agoI can't find the source for where I read this, but I thought a large part of their financial crisis was because they were designing lots of sets with custom bricks that weren't reused in other sets, which inflated manufacturing costs, and now they've gone back to reusing bricks between sets heavily. Maybe you have lots of bricks from that period? Or what exactly do you mean by "standard"? I've seen some pretty clever uses for the same brick in different sets where the brick might not be considered "standard" by you.