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All in all, this article from 2014 seems have not other reason to exist but to attract hate-clicks.
Are resin 3D printers any better than FDM in printing Lego bricks? I hope they get good enough so that every kid can make all the pieces. It's a shame that a new 8880 kit costs an arm and a leg.
Also it releases fumes that are extremely bad for children. There are quality resins but costing $100 per litter or so.
Today with 3d printers you just can print connectors and connect aluminum beams and wood boards to do whatever you want.
I teach children to cut wood boards with a fret saw and to mark holes that we drill super fast with a column drill machine.
They also know how to create basic shapes with the FDM machine, and print standard connector sets.
They have today way more advanced options that Legos.
I went looking for a spaceship lego set. Just a simple rocket or something.
Instead it's heaps of adult themed/Star Wars/NASA licensed stuff. The alternative seems to be a bucket of standard bricks.
The adult orientation of LEGO these days makes me hesitant to buy it.
I don't mind Adults having LEGO sets, I do mind if that becomes so lucrative it stops kids being able to enjoy it.
I have a 5 and 3 year old and watching them patiently page through the instructions and put together something complex that they really care about is incredibly satisfying. Some of the sets have relatively complex mechanisms in them as well (I'm thinking specifically of the Lego Friends Shopping Mall and the Minecraft sets) and the kids are forced to understand them at least on some level.
I don't know that my daughter would be interested in classic Legos, it's Lego Friends that caught her and will keep her in front of a 200 page instruction manual for 4 hours and in my mind there's nothing wrong with that.
Legos are still one of the most satisfying toys to buy your children. Yes they are expensive, yes it's annoying that a lot of them are built just once. That being said when you look out at the competition the bar is low. I have a 5 and 3 year old and watching them patiently page through the instructions and put together something complex that they really care about is incredibly satisfying. Some of the sets have rela…
Bluebrixx, Cobi and Xingbao are probably much better.
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Are your surfing without protection? Scrolling to the bottom for me works perfectly. I tried disabling uBlock, then I got the behaviour you mentioned. I always have uBlock on to disable scripts and fonts. Quite a lot of sites work perfectly well that way and I enable the minimum scripts and fonts for those that don't.
A website optimizing itself for freeloaders rather than ad-watching users, seems... counterproductive for their bottom line.
Most of the now & then examples are both true now. The classic sets still exist and how children play with Lego depends on their personality and what they have available (and how it is stored). Children are individuals and Lego allows a larger variety of play than most other toys on the market. My kids have a mix of classic & branded sets and the play area is a mix of designed builds and improvised creations. The fav…
Yes. And also, many if not most kids combine approaches. Start by building based on manual, then they play with it and it gets gradually destroyed, then just use it is as material.
Have few favorite sets they keep, the rest gets destroyed and used as bricks when in mood.
Legos are still one of the most satisfying toys to buy your children. Yes they are expensive, yes it's annoying that a lot of them are built just once. That being said when you look out at the competition the bar is low. I have a 5 and 3 year old and watching them patiently page through the instructions and put together something complex that they really care about is incredibly satisfying. Some of the sets have rela…
>That being said when you look out at the competition the bar is low. Bluebrixx, Cobi and Xingbao are probably much better.
I would love to know what percentage of Legos revenue is now from adults buying the incredible large, complex and expensive sets to build themselves. Lego is so associated as a toy for children just as computer games are, but gaming is a larger industry for adults than children. My wife and I now regularly buy these large lego sets for each other (birthdays, Christmas and anniversaries) and do them together in the ev…
I think 1980s kids who grew up and got well-paying tech jobs are their largest customer demographic now. Kids play Minecraft instead. That's what my oldest son said, at least; he doesn't see the point in Lego now that Minecraft exists. Breaks my heart. I mean, Minecraft is fantastic, but it's not Lego.