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Re: Sagrada Família Lego set

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Post by genocidicbunny »

epistasis wrote: post #17
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, a…

I have an anecdote about doing exactly that. Always was a LEGO kid (first set I got was bought 3 months before I was born) and slowly over time collected a giant bin of pieces from all the various sets. Now as a much older adult, I actually find myself going back to that bin on occasion to sort out the parts and try to rebuild the sets. Much like how that big bin of parts let me build stuff from my imagination when I was younger, as a form of therapy, now resorting those pieces and reorganizing them is a new form of therapy for myself, and it all comes from the same toy.

I find it particularly endearing how a single system of toys can provide decades of experiences to a single human. I don't think I've ever encountered another toy that is like that on such a massive scale. Yes there's other construction toys out there that strive to do the same, Knex was another one that I was into for a while, but there's nothing that quite scratches that same itch that Lego does.

Re: Sagrada Família Lego set

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Post by jll29 »

People are apparently willing to pay a premium for older Lego sets, provided the original packaging is still intact.

Older sets are offered and sold on eBay for substantially more oney that they cost when originally sold.

Re: Sagrada Família Lego set

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Post by raffael_de »

pickleglitch wrote: post #56
sizzzzlerz wrote: post #21

Once built, what does one do with this? Generally, these are fragile in the sense that moving them can cause parts of it to become disconnected or fall apart so you don't want to be moving it around to much. It's going to take up a whole lot of space. Your kids can't actually play with it. And if you intend to show it off, you aren't really showing any real skills except for the ability to follow pages and pages of i…

For me, when I was into legos, the answer would be: take it apart and add the pieces to my larger collection, from which I can build whatever I want.

when you were into Legos, the bricks used were of universal shape. modern sets like this are mostly of a shape that is highly specific to the intended outcome. which is basically orthogonal to the original appeal of playing with Lego. I'm saying that as someone who grew up with two large boxes full of Lego bricks and pieces.

Re: Sagrada Família Lego set

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Post by cowlby »

epistasis wrote: post #17
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, a…

Yes this, I bought sets like the Arctic Ship and police bases thinking they'd be like dioramas. They quickly became components that they build other things on top of. It took some time to mentally un-anchor from the $500 spent on the sets lol.

Re: Sagrada Família Lego set

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Post by a_e_k »

butlike wrote: post #37
V__ wrote: post #3

This looks very repetitive and not-fun to build.

Yeah I agree. 12k pieces except you're building 100 pillars and 100 spires, all the same.

On the other hand, crafts like knitting and other fiber arts can be very repetitive and people still enjoy them.

(Personally, I've also enjoyed unit origami, which involves folding the same module many times over and assembling them.)

Re: Sagrada Família Lego set

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Post by Rebuff5007 »

Aurornis wrote: post #29
sizzzzlerz wrote: post #21

Once built, what does one do with this? Generally, these are fragile in the sense that moving them can cause parts of it to become disconnected or fall apart so you don't want to be moving it around to much. It's going to take up a whole lot of space. Your kids can't actually play with it. And if you intend to show it off, you aren't really showing any real skills except for the ability to follow pages and pages of i…

> Your kids can't actually play with it. Good luck to anyone who builds a lego set and then tries to tell my kids we can't play with it or steal parts from it for another build. LEGO has a wide audience. Some of these go to adults who build them and put them on display. Others will go to kids who build them and then take them apart to build the next thing. I wouldn't buy this huge set for my kids because that price t…

> I wouldn't buy this huge set for my kids because that price tag is crazy, but I like buying some of the mid-size sets for them because it's a nice injection of specialty pieces that they like to incorporate into other builds.

Very well said, and this was exactly my experience (as a child).

Re: Sagrada Família Lego set

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Post by raffael_de »

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…

yes, this, thank you. just wrote a comment lamenting about this specifically.

Re: Sagrada Família Lego set

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Post by genocidicbunny »

krembo wrote: post #66

If at all, then the white bricks of LEGO Architecture Studio are on my wishlist just because i dont like following instructions https://a.co/d/0iJANnKK

So, fun trick with sets like these, that are in the more 'professional' space of Lego is that most of the time, these sets are very open ended because they only provide you a bunch of common pieces. Which you can buy yourself.

Bricklink has a wonderful feature that you can take a set and then part it out into a wanted list, and then search seller inventory to find those parts. That's how I built that giant Imperial Star Destroyer set from the aughts for a little over $200 instead of the like $1000 that used copies of the set were going for at that time (it's probably even more now.)

Just for funsies, I looked it up, and you can get the whole 21050 set for about $150 now on bricklink, which is a pretty good $/psc price. Considering what the set is, and the lack of stickers, means it should be easy to wash a used set to get all the pieces nice and clean; a laundry bra bag with a fine mesh works great for this.

Re: Sagrada Família Lego set

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Post by sdwr »

b473a wrote: post #51
leipert wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In Germany there is a Lego subscription service. Put sets on a wishlist, they send you one of them. You build it, unbuild it and send it back. One set a month.

I feel like if I were just a little deeper on the Autism Spectrum I would really like Germany.

The only people I've ever met who get excited filling out forms were German

Re: Sagrada Família Lego set

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Post by stronglikedan »

sizzzzlerz wrote: post #21

Once built, what does one do with this? Generally, these are fragile in the sense that moving them can cause parts of it to become disconnected or fall apart so you don't want to be moving it around to much. It's going to take up a whole lot of space. Your kids can't actually play with it. And if you intend to show it off, you aren't really showing any real skills except for the ability to follow pages and pages of i…

you don't build with legos expecting it to not fall apart. it's kind of the whole point, really...

why do Buddhists make intricate sand sculptures only to rake them over when they're done?

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