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Lego Thread - Because KF wasn't already autistic enough.
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Why is it when I pass the Lego store. Or see someone with a giant Lego bag, they fit within the exact stereotype that I would imagine of an adult who works at the Lego store, or who buys Lego.
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Because Lego just attracts autism man. People get attached to those red bricks and never let go.
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I wish I could go back and people-watch LEGO stores from 20 years ago, back when they were full of original themes and the most licensed stuff they had was some Star Wars and Harry Potter back when the heads were still yellow: would the adults going there on their own be precursors to the modern [brand] collecting autistic consoomer stereotype, or were they a different group?
I assume that stereotypical consoomers are the new target audience, because the last time I walked past a LEGO store, the windows were plastered with weird licensed crossovers like Mario and Optimus Prime, and adult collectors items that looked like they were having an identity crisis between being LEGO and a model kit.
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I can't tell you about actual Lego stores in the 90s-2000s, but the online Lego community like on sites like Lugnet and Classic Space Forums, the adult fan community skewed fairly older, like 30s-40s and even older than that. Meanwhile Lego sets were always marketed first towards children. I feel like now that's inverted, and the online fan community mean age seems to be younger than me (I'm in my early 30s) and Lego is now marketed towards adult consoomers who see brand, buy brand. All sets now that I see are those 18+ collector's edition sets, or have piece counts so high I doubt kids would be able to finish building them in an afternoon. In many ways a lot of the sets, even with the amazing building techniques designers can use now, diminish the original ethos of Lego being "imaginative play".
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Lego still holds a special place in my heart and my autism for it is immense. I could tell you the year of release for pretty much every set from 1999 to 2011, every theme, the names of minifigures, etc. Unfortunately it's simply too expensive for me now, and living in a tiny ass shared apartment means I can't have or grow my collection which is fairly large. Thankfully my dad is holding onto it; and he himself is a toy autist so I don't have to be concerned about it getting sold at a yard sale.
Occasionally I'll buy a speed champions set because they're fun builds, compact and relatively inexpensive.
Occasionally I'll buy a speed champions set because they're fun builds, compact and relatively inexpensive.
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Yeah, I feel like there's a lot less emphasis on imaginative play as there is on 1:1 accuracy and high detail. Now that isn't bad, but I like when it was reserved for a couple sets a year, like a massive UCS Star Wars set such as the Death Star or a modular building. Now it seems pretty near every set has that focus, and they're always big with few good small-medium sets. This in turn diminishes the value of those large, exquisitely-detailed sets with oversaturation.
I recently built a Chima set from 2014, and I was shocked by how there was a much greater emphasis on playability. It had a dropping gate, exploding stairs, and a trap door. The last set I remember having such playability is Emperor Unagami's temple from the Ninjago Prime Empire line, though it seems that the new 4+ Spiderman Green Goblin lighthouse set also has that kind of playability with a trap door and rollercoaster tracks.
I also wish Lego was putting out more original themed sets instead of everything being a licensed collectors' tie-in. We should be having an original space theme, an original castle theme, an original pirate theme, and a rotating assortment of several original action/adventure themes. Keep giving us weird, short themes like Power Miners, Dino, World Racers, Time Cruisers (I like that Dreamzzz seems to be a modern Time Cruisers), and Agents instead of picking up yet another license. The trend of the 3-year big bang theme seems to have also died out with the failure of Hidden Side (it failed because it leaned heavily on app interaction as a play feature, something Lego seems to be moving away from finally); I personally loved those themes (Chima, Nexo Knights, originally Ninjago) with unique ideas supported by cartoons and lots of lore. Hopefully Dreamzzz is bringing that back. It seems that they're funneling all their original theme ideas (space, mining, underwater) into City, so while it's nice they're keeping those themes alive in a way, they have to be more realistic and can't do all the cool fantasy stuff. I've heard that they're precluded from doing space and castle because Star Wars and Harry Potter count as space and castle, though that's no excuse for not making a new fantasy mining theme or a new Aquazone theme. It's a shame because based on that Lightyear starfighter (which is one of the best sets of the decade so far in my opinion) they would absolutely knock it out of the park with a new original space theme.
Maybe Lego is focusing so heavily on the licenses because that's just the overall trend in toymaking nowadays. Whenever I go to the store, there's barely any new toylines not based on movie/TV licenses, which is pretty sad. I guess there needs to be a recognizable license for kids to play with a toy nowadays and not run back to their iPads. Plus, there are plenty of 35-year-old engineers who have lots of disposable income to consoom toys, and this demographic wants recognizable toys for the nostalgia, so nothing original is being made.
I like Speed Champions, but given that it's basically modern Racers, I wish they focused more on new fantasy cars rather than real-life cars and movie cars. I personally like the Mega Construx Hot Wheels line for this reason, because they make lots of fantasy cars. I also wish Speed Champions had mini cars and stunt sets like Racers had with Tiny Turbos; those were super fun, if for no other reason than that they were better urban sets than City sets.
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Love Lego. I have all my old stuff from being a kid
It’s been really great to pass all my (most of my… ok some of my) old Lego o to my kids who also love it.
I miss raised base plates. I have some moon craters but none of the others, we could never afford the bigger sets as a kid.
Some criticisms about current year Lego:
1. Not ‘playable’ enoigh. Too much is lazy dioramas, with not enough bits to move and open. Honourable exceptions are the Minecraft sets and some of the city ones
2. Roofs of cars and vehicles that pop off rather than hinge. I hate this.
3. Faces. Bring back the plain yellow ones. I hate how everyone snarls. I have considered replacing all modern beads with original ones but think this may be seen as a deeper issue with humanity
4. App based instructions. LOATHE them and so do the kids.
5. Price
I really want the new big castle and the el dorado base and the blacksmith but I can’t justify spending that much money on Lego.
Really hope they do more medieval stuff, castle was my favourite
Yup, i have the original of this!
It’s been really great to pass all my (most of my… ok some of my) old Lego o to my kids who also love it.
I miss raised base plates. I have some moon craters but none of the others, we could never afford the bigger sets as a kid.
Some criticisms about current year Lego:
1. Not ‘playable’ enoigh. Too much is lazy dioramas, with not enough bits to move and open. Honourable exceptions are the Minecraft sets and some of the city ones
2. Roofs of cars and vehicles that pop off rather than hinge. I hate this.
3. Faces. Bring back the plain yellow ones. I hate how everyone snarls. I have considered replacing all modern beads with original ones but think this may be seen as a deeper issue with humanity
4. App based instructions. LOATHE them and so do the kids.
5. Price
I really want the new big castle and the el dorado base and the blacksmith but I can’t justify spending that much money on Lego.
Really hope they do more medieval stuff, castle was my favourite
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The Mario sets encourage a lot of imaginative play. They're meant to be mixed and matched to create custom levels that the characters (Mario, Luigi, and Peach for now) run through as if they were in a Mario game. The reward for completing any level is a coin high score that you can brag about. Each individual kit is at least close to a full level in itself, but you can string several kits together to create massive levels that need to be completed within the time limit in order to collect all the coins you've racked up.
The biggest problem in the above is "mix and match." Little kids who would love to do that also forget which kits which level components come from, so if you're hoping to keep sets intact, you can't let them use too many kits at once or mix in their normal bricks. Our Series 1 kits are hopelessly jumbled and probably irretrievable after too much unsupervised play. We got wiser with Series 2 and made sure that we could reassemble a given kit after play and before bagging it up to be stored separately from the other kits.
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Power Miners deserves more love. Yeah it's 'Not Rock Raiders' but the builds are a lot cooler. I understand the gripes people have with the color scheme, the more comical rock monsters and more uniform minifgs but it's based because it was around when I was a kid and that's the final word on that.
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I like the dioramas, mainly because I like building more than I like playing. My biggest issue is the price, and the overwhelming emphasis on themed sets. Ideas is a step in the right direction IMO, but they're really milking whatever deal they have with Disney.
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Bumping thread, also wanna say I miss this nigga like you wouldn't believe:
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You better believe I made a Junkbot minifig IRL back in the day. Unnamed Lego City citizen #258 didn't need his legs that bad anyway.
<junkbot>OH YEAH.</junkbot>
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You've reminded me of all the little games they had on their website back then, fuck. People ask if I am/was a PC gamer, and the answer is: if you count all the games on their website, fuck yeah. They were made so a potato like my dad's old Lenovo could play that shit. Spent so much time in the 2000's goofing around on there man
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What's more autistic than playing with plastic bricks? Playing with virtual plastic bricks.
Pictured: the coolest Lego car ever.
I will build all the sets I wanted when I was a kid and nobody will stop me.
Pictured: the coolest Lego car ever.
I will build all the sets I wanted when I was a kid and nobody will stop me.
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That was really fun back in the day, even if it made my Dad's PC hate life. You got to build stuff if you didn't even have the bricks, really emphasizing the creativity aspect.
One thing I will say is I love the space Legos. As in the nasa ones that usually get started on Lego Ideas. That's a good site too, but I digress. Anyway, the Curiosity rover and Saturn V kits are some of my favorites in my collection, and are fun conversation pieces.
The ISS is also pretty fun if you're willing to put up with a micro build with lots of small pieces.
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Lego is dead to me. What captivated me were their original themes like Bionicle, Lego Racers, Orient Expedition, Mars Mission, and the like. Now it's all Disney licensed themes bar a few themes like Architecture, Speed Champions, and Technic.