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Re: Sagrada Família Lego set

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Post by nly »

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…

It's not about the result. Most people who build these sets get satisfaction from the build process itself. It's a form of therapy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA_effect

Re: Sagrada Família Lego set

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Post by vidarh »

Aurornis wrote: post #24
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…

> When I was a kid I used to spend entire days building and creating new stuff once I built the designs from the booklets. Kids still do this. I don't know why this idea persists. There have always been sets with custom pieces. My kids go crazy over the custom pieces because it sparks new ideas for their other builds. My kids know every custom piece from every set they've ever built and will describe them in great de…

A lot of the Lego builds we did when my son was little was exactly this: A set would spark an idea and there'd be endless castles that started with piece of a castle set but went in totally different directions and incorporated all kinds of other stuff, for example.

I can't but help think that people who assume that the big sets take away that haven't touched Lego in decades.

My sons sets got built "to spec" once, got played with like that for a few hours, and then never looked the same again ever, even though we still have the manuals in a box somewhere.

Re: Sagrada Família Lego set

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Post by ggm »

To all North Americans. The singular of Lego is Lego. The plural of Lego is .. Lego.

It's like sheep. Legos is a mis--spelled City in Nigeria.

Re: Sagrada Família Lego set

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Post by butlike »

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…

There's a recurring theme on the Lego subreddit where people build the millennium falcon out of any arbitrary lego set, so the spirit is not COMPLETELY dead, fwiw

Re: Sagrada Família Lego set

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Post by xtracto »

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…

My wife took on building the plant inspired lego sets several months ago. They are OK in that they don't look that ugly scattered around the house. I like it because it is a hobby she enjoys a lot and it makes it easier for me to buy "the right" gifts haha.

I've never had the patience to build those. I think I have PTSD from my childhood, when my dat bought us a "cheap" brand of lego-like toys (called TENTE I think) for which the bottom pieces fell as you plugged the top pieces.

Re: Sagrada Família Lego set

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Post by bluedino »

vidarh wrote: post #32
Aurornis wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> When I was a kid I used to spend entire days building and creating new stuff once I built the designs from the booklets. Kids still do this. I don't know why this idea persists. There have always been sets with custom pieces. My kids go crazy over the custom pieces because it sparks new ideas for their other builds. My kids know every custom piece from every set they've ever built and will describe them in great de…

A lot of the Lego builds we did when my son was little was exactly this: A set would spark an idea and there'd be endless castles that started with piece of a castle set but went in totally different directions and incorporated all kinds of other stuff, for example. I can't but help think that people who assume that the big sets take away that haven't touched Lego in decades. My sons sets got built "to spec" once, go…

I find most of my kids friends don't mix sets, each set stays in its own box/bag

Re: Sagrada Família Lego set

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Post by mmusc »

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…

There was a period that was very true when Ninjago were a thing. But in the last decade while they sometimes still come out with new pieces there is still a tonne of reusability and creativity in Lego pieces.

Re: Sagrada Família Lego set

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Post by cryzinger »

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...

Lego also has "3-in-1" sets that come with dedicated instructions to build different possible configurations out of the exact same pieces, which seem like a cool way to encourage kids (or anyone :P) to then veer off into their own building experiments.
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