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From the article: "Once your kiddo completes the Star Wars X-Wing Fighter, toss the pieces in the prepaid box and send back. They’ll be fully sanitized for oth
by troymc 13y ago
From the article:
"Once your kiddo completes the Star Wars X-Wing Fighter, toss the pieces in the prepaid box and send back. They’ll be fully sanitized for other little architects, and your tiny tinkerer will receive the next kit in his queue."
Who uses Lego like that, using the blocks as if they were puzzle pieces for only one particular puzzle?
The magic of Lego is that you can use the blocks to build whatever you can imagine, and you can only really do that once you have enough blocks with enough variety.
I pity the kids whose parents think Pleygo is a good idea. What do the parents do if the kids start building their own ideas? Punish them?
There is a market for used Lego, but I suspect that market is already well-served by the likes of eBay and Lego forums.
- PebblesRox 13y agoWhen we were really little our mom thought Lego kits were expensive single-use toys. Fortunately she still got us a few kits and once she realized we could build hospitals and football stadiums and booby-trap houses out of the same pieces, she saw the light and started funding a Lego collection that has grown to fill an entire play loft in my brothers' room. It is possible for ignorant parents to become enlightened! If Pleygo gets Lego pieces into the hands of a child whose parents wouldn't have bought them otherwise because of the expense, I think it's a good thing. Maybe once the kids turn their fort pieces into Trojan horses and their railroads into roller coasters, the parents will realize the power of Lego to accommodate creativity. I doubt it will take long for kids to start nagging parents for multiple kits. At that point, hopefully the parents will wise up and cancel their subscription. Ideally that's what would happen, but I'd be curious to see what actually takes place.
- dubcanada 13y agoI do believe you just called your mom 'ignorant'. In which case I'm sure she would not be happy. Lego's were marketed as build a "fill in the blank with random thing" and that's it. Not a buy 15 bricks for construction of what ever. So it's 100% understandable that she did not truly understand at first.
- leoedin 13y agoIgnorant doesn't have to be an insult. It's a perfectly valid way of describing someone who lacks knowledge about a particular topic. In this context it really isn't an insult at all.
- troymc 13y agoYes that would be a good outcome for kids whose Parents try Pleygo. Not so good for Pleygo.