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Oh wow. Not often I get as triggered by a comment where someone is wrong on the Internet as this. This has to be some of the dumbest drivel I've ever read in

Oh wow. Not often I get as triggered by a comment where someone is wrong on the Internet as this. This has to be some of the dumbest drivel I've ever read in a comment about Lego. The Lego sets I got as a kid in the 80s, have been built and has been (and is!) being played with by my ten year old daugher. Classics such as 6080 and 40567. Or lego space stuff such as 6980, 6940, 6783 or a variety of the others she's been playing with. One of the big appeals of LEGO is that it's generational. It is that the plastics produced 30, 40, 50 years ago is just as good today in 2023, as it was in 1986. The utter baloney you're coughing up would ruin one of the main great points about LEGO. It would render it not generational toys but yet another bunch of bollocks that expires after a few years. And shove your anecdotes. I doubt you've got kids.

ceejayoz 3y ago
Yeah, my kids visited their great-grandmother in Australia a few years back, and out came the 1960s legos. Great fun was had.
SillyUsername 3y ago
How mature. I doubt you're older than 15 with a response like that. 15 years is not "bunch of bollocks that expires" - that's a pretty good lifetime for any modern plastic toy, and if the plastic is something like PLA, will just break down to sugars. What you fail to understand is the ABS plastic is just adding to the pool of what will all become trash eventually, in 100 years we'll have a larger pile of this junk, whereas using a biodegradable plastic the total amount may remain the same or have declined. You do you though, continue to buy new plastic bags at the supermarket, favour plastic packaging, plastic cup straws, all because you can "re-use" them. Oh wait, they've banned them for a reason.
- arcade79 3y ago
  I'm 44. Since '86, I've noticed that I've lost a 3 gray 2x1 full size bricks for the Castle, two bricks for one of the spaceships. Every single other model has all their bricks. I despise the "planned obsolesce" bollocks some folks are hell bent on pushing into everything. I cheer on lego not to subscribe to it. I, and lots and lots of other brickheads would probably abandon them in an instant if they did.
- joemi 3y ago
  > You do you though, continue to buy new plastic bags at the supermarket, favour plastic packaging, plastic cup straws, all because you can "re-use" them. You're comparing Lego to things that are pretty much designed to be single-use, and that's part of why you're getting a lot of people arguing with you. As many have pointed out, Lego is not single use. First, kids can play with them for _years_. That's longer than a lot of stuff that kids play with. But also, because they're high quality and they do last a long time, they're great for actually passing down to younger generations. I'm in my 40's now and recently passed the legos I had as a child on to my niece and nephew. I'm sure they'll get passed on to another generation at some point. There's a _huge_ amount value in products that are so incredibly reusable.
- arcade79 3y ago
  I need to add another reply to this drivel, to point out that No, I do not buy plastic packaging, plastic cup straws, or other silly plastic products that are essentially one-use. LEGO is not one-use. The entire point of lego is to NOT be one-use. I'm starting to suspect you think the purpose of lego is to buy a lego model, build it, play a bit with the result, and then it's "done". That's not how it works. Those bricks add to the pile of bricks you've got, to build creatively from. After a while, those 'piles' of bricks get changed to well sorted drawings, with different drawers for different bricks. ;) We use something like this: https://www.plasticboxshop.co.uk/craft-storage-boxes-c4/compartment-boxes-c37/multi-drawer-professional-plus-47-cabinet-33-drawers-p4556 https://www.plasticboxshop.co.uk/craft-storage-boxes-c4/comp... for storing different sized legos, to easily find what you're looking for.

ceejayoz 3y ago

Yeah, my kids visited their great-grandmother in Australia a few years back, and out came the 1960s legos. Great fun was had.

SillyUsername 3y ago

How mature. I doubt you're older than 15 with a response like that. 15 years is not "bunch of bollocks that expires" - that's a pretty good lifetime for any modern plastic toy, and if the plastic is something like PLA, will just break down to sugars. What you fail to understand is the ABS plastic is just adding to the pool of what will all become trash eventually, in 100 years we'll have a larger pile of this junk, whereas using a biodegradable plastic the total amount may remain the same or have declined. You do you though, continue to buy new plastic bags at the supermarket, favour plastic packaging, plastic cup straws, all because you can "re-use" them. Oh wait, they've banned them for a reason.

arcade79 3y ago
I'm 44. Since '86, I've noticed that I've lost a 3 gray 2x1 full size bricks for the Castle, two bricks for one of the spaceships. Every single other model has all their bricks. I despise the "planned obsolesce" bollocks some folks are hell bent on pushing into everything. I cheer on lego not to subscribe to it. I, and lots and lots of other brickheads would probably abandon them in an instant if they did.
joemi 3y ago
> You do you though, continue to buy new plastic bags at the supermarket, favour plastic packaging, plastic cup straws, all because you can "re-use" them. You're comparing Lego to things that are pretty much designed to be single-use, and that's part of why you're getting a lot of people arguing with you. As many have pointed out, Lego is not single use. First, kids can play with them for _years_. That's longer than a lot of stuff that kids play with. But also, because they're high quality and they do last a long time, they're great for actually passing down to younger generations. I'm in my 40's now and recently passed the legos I had as a child on to my niece and nephew. I'm sure they'll get passed on to another generation at some point. There's a _huge_ amount value in products that are so incredibly reusable.
arcade79 3y ago
I need to add another reply to this drivel, to point out that No, I do not buy plastic packaging, plastic cup straws, or other silly plastic products that are essentially one-use. LEGO is not one-use. The entire point of lego is to NOT be one-use. I'm starting to suspect you think the purpose of lego is to buy a lego model, build it, play a bit with the result, and then it's "done". That's not how it works. Those bricks add to the pile of bricks you've got, to build creatively from. After a while, those 'piles' of bricks get changed to well sorted drawings, with different drawers for different bricks. ;) We use something like this: https://www.plasticboxshop.co.uk/craft-storage-boxes-c4/compartment-boxes-c37/multi-drawer-professional-plus-47-cabinet-33-drawers-p4556 https://www.plasticboxshop.co.uk/craft-storage-boxes-c4/comp... for storing different sized legos, to easily find what you're looking for.