“Netflix for Legos” is an awesome idea. But can it scale?

Post by cheeyoonlee » Sat, Mar 22, 2014, 8:02 AM UTC

gkoberger wrote: post #5

I feel this takes away a lot of the fun. There won't be mixing and matching of sets and peices; no experimenting nor creating new things. Partially because it won't be allowed (what parent will want to re-sort the sets), but mostly because it's impossible (you only get one set at a time). Legos were awesome because you could experiment and build and create new things. Now, they're just a paint-by-numbers, follow the…

Post by agumonkey » Sat, Mar 22, 2014, 8:07 AM UTC

henrikschroder wrote: post #30

gkoberger wrote: post #5

I feel this takes away a lot of the fun. There won't be mixing and matching of sets and peices; no experimenting nor creating new things. Partially because it won't be allowed (what parent will want to re-sort the sets), but mostly because it's impossible (you only get one set at a time). Legos were awesome because you could experiment and build and create new things. Now, they're just a paint-by-numbers, follow the…

> Now, they're just a paint-by-numbers No, they're both. The sets we loved as kids still exist, they just don't advertise them as much as the licensed properties, but they sure as hell haven't discontinued them: http://www.lego.com/en-us/creator/products/all-models http://www.lego.com/en-us/city/products http://www.lego.com/en-us/castle http://galaxysquad.lego.com/en-us