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Re: Sagrada Família Lego set

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Post by alephnerd »

liendolucas wrote: post #10

When I was a kid I used to spend entire days building and creating new stuff once I built the designs from the booklets. Today when I see a Lego kit is kind of another toy: is designed to build one and only one design, compared to the generic kits that were sold and also popular many years ago. All these new kits pieces are just to accomplish one build. The Lego spirit of ever combining and creating with same pieces…

You can still buy bulk Legos to mix and match from Lego. And similarly pricey and collector oriented Lego sets existed 20 and 30 years ago as well.

Legos releasing single build sets that are clearly targeted for adults (look at the 18+ age statement) does nothing to harm you - it's targeted a different consumer demographic.

It's like Taco Bells now serving alcohol or Costcos now selling Asian groceries. Companies will not stay stagnant and will look at additional opportunities to expand to new buyer demographics.

Re: Sagrada Família Lego set

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Post by ribosometronome »

liendolucas wrote: post #10

When I was a kid I used to spend entire days building and creating new stuff once I built the designs from the booklets. Today when I see a Lego kit is kind of another toy: is designed to build one and only one design, compared to the generic kits that were sold and also popular many years ago. All these new kits pieces are just to accomplish one build. The Lego spirit of ever combining and creating with same pieces…

All new kits? Gone? I'm not so sure about that. I don't think the target audience of an $800 kit is a 10 year old, sure. There are still plenty of kits at the $100ish and below price range that are targeted for that sort of play.

Re: Sagrada Família Lego set

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Post by slg »

Georgelemental wrote: post #7
slg wrote: post #6

If we scale it by height, a historically accurate building of this set should take you approximately 200 days.

Why would you scale by height and not volume?

Because it doesn't appear to either be designed at a consistent scale or be a solid rectangular cuboid making volume feel like an even less accurate basis for my silly joke.

Re: Sagrada Família Lego set

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Post by pyreko »

liendolucas wrote: post #10

When I was a kid I used to spend entire days building and creating new stuff once I built the designs from the booklets. Today when I see a Lego kit is kind of another toy: is designed to build one and only one design, compared to the generic kits that were sold and also popular many years ago. All these new kits pieces are just to accomplish one build. The Lego spirit of ever combining and creating with same pieces…

I mean yes, there are kits like this that are clearly meant for one kind of build, but nothing stops someone from just getting bulk kits or taking apart other sets? There's lots of other stuff on their catalogue which look just like the stuff I grew up with.

I swear every lego-related post you see people dooming about this when all they look at are the giant sets clearly targeted towards adults that _want_ this sort of thing and not the plethora of other stuff.

Re: Sagrada Família Lego set

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Post by epistasis »

liendolucas wrote: post #10

When I was a kid I used to spend entire days building and creating new stuff once I built the designs from the booklets. Today when I see a Lego kit is kind of another toy: is designed to build one and only one design, compared to the generic kits that were sold and also popular many years ago. All these new kits pieces are just to accomplish one build. The Lego spirit of ever combining and creating with same pieces…

My kids have a ton of legos, it's their favorite thing. However, and this is the important part: you have to let go of the concept of a set.

Keep new assembled kits out, let them play with it as built from the instructions. But then as it falls apart with play, and the kids don't fix it the same way it was originally built, it eventually goes into a big box of former kits that are all jumbled together.

We did this, and without prompting to do so, the kids started building their own things out of the box, exactly as you did with your kits.

You just have to learn to let go of the set, and it becomes exactly what you want.

Edit: I'm not sure if a $800 set has that same property, but for the everyday $5-$40 sets, absolutely treat them as temporary collections, and life is great.

Re: Sagrada Família Lego set

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Post by pyreko »

alephnerd wrote: post #11
liendolucas wrote: post #10

When I was a kid I used to spend entire days building and creating new stuff once I built the designs from the booklets. Today when I see a Lego kit is kind of another toy: is designed to build one and only one design, compared to the generic kits that were sold and also popular many years ago. All these new kits pieces are just to accomplish one build. The Lego spirit of ever combining and creating with same pieces…

You can still buy bulk Legos to mix and match from Lego. And similarly pricey and collector oriented Lego sets existed 20 and 30 years ago as well. Legos releasing single build sets that are clearly targeted for adults (look at the 18+ age statement) does nothing to harm you - it's targeted a different consumer demographic. It's like Taco Bells now serving alcohol or Costcos now selling Asian groceries. Companies wil…

Exactly, and like, if one literally looks up "Lego catalogue" and actually read it you'll get a bunch of sets - even the brand tie-ins, which aren't new at all - and these are basically the same types of sets I grew up with and would happily build and then take apart as a kid to do other stuff with...

Re: Sagrada Família Lego set

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Post by hgoel »

liendolucas wrote: post #10

When I was a kid I used to spend entire days building and creating new stuff once I built the designs from the booklets. Today when I see a Lego kit is kind of another toy: is designed to build one and only one design, compared to the generic kits that were sold and also popular many years ago. All these new kits pieces are just to accomplish one build. The Lego spirit of ever combining and creating with same pieces…

That seems to be somewhat of an exaggeration. These $800 models are obviously not for kids. The creativity is still alive in the price brackets that aren't targeting collectors. Custom builds that involve scavenging other kits for pieces still go viral pretty often.

I'm not very tapped into it, but last month I saw a DIY Lego Rocky from Project Hail Mary going viral. I think this week I saw a very detailed jellyfish model doing the rounds.

Re: Sagrada Família Lego set

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Post by alephnerd »

pyreko wrote: post #18
alephnerd wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can still buy bulk Legos to mix and match from Lego. And similarly pricey and collector oriented Lego sets existed 20 and 30 years ago as well. Legos releasing single build sets that are clearly targeted for adults (look at the 18+ age statement) does nothing to harm you - it's targeted a different consumer demographic. It's like Taco Bells now serving alcohol or Costcos now selling Asian groceries. Companies wil…

Exactly, and like, if one literally looks up "Lego catalogue" and actually read it you'll get a bunch of sets - even the brand tie-ins, which aren't new at all - and these are basically the same types of sets I grew up with and would happily build and then take apart as a kid to do other stuff with...

Same here much to my parents chagrin - they thought buying me Lego sets would teach me to follow written instructions but joke's on them.
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