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I have always done both. Both as a child and now with my children. We buy the sets and build them when they are new. They stay intact for a while, but eventuall

I have always done both. Both as a child and now with my children. We buy the sets and build them when they are new. They stay intact for a while, but eventually they get extended, rebuilt and eventually join entropy in a big box. Then from the entropy box we build completely new stuff: space ships, air planes, castles and cars. I love stuff with moving parts. Secret doors, robotic arms, escape pods… I always assumed this is what everyone does.

actuallyalys 2y ago
This is what my brother and I did too. (My sister was young enough to mostly experience the "entropy box.") If I had to guess, I'd imagine a plurality of lego players do it that way, if not a majority, with smaller groups of people exclusively building from instructions or rarely building from instructions.