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I remember when I had Legos I had to build whatever my mind came up with using the pieces available. We'd play with it. Then a new idea would pop in our brains
by racl101 3y ago
I remember when I had Legos I had to build whatever my mind came up with using the pieces available. We'd play with it. Then a new idea would pop in our brains about how to improve the design and we'd tear down and build back up only bigger and better. And if we got more legos or new pieces, suddenly so many new possibilities for designs. What a difference a few new pieces made.
Now they feel like model Kits. My nephew asks for Star Wars Legos, or some other franchise based legos, builds whatever the structure is according to the manual, but then doesn't take it apart and it just sits on his book shelf. Never to be touched or rebuilt, even just for the heck of it. And why should he rebuild? It's like coding the same program out of a text book in exactly the same way. Been there done that.
- bombcar 3y agoI think this is one of the disadvantages of things like Star Wars Lego - you have something extremely well known to compare it to, and there's not really a point in rebuilding it, because that's the "best it can be". Whereas my early sets, focused mainly around City, were nice, but I could build something else "City-like" out of them and not feel it was vastly inferior. But, I think a bigger part is just kids are different. Some like building and then leave it, others build it and it goes into the pile of Lego quite quickly.
- racl101 3y agoYeah, I'm not sure one way is better than another. What I do think is that Lego has definitely been evolving the way people play with them.
- bombcar 3y agoAnd keeping piece count steady even as prices increase - "ten cents a piece" has been a good rule of thumb for twenty years and only really been broken in the last few, but part of that is the average size/weight of pieces has been dropping. I'm sure someone somewhere has done the math.