Update: Chris' Hierarchy of Needs, and WANT MULTIPLES!

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When I was a kid I liked playing with legos. I had one largish starter box, with lots of random, fairly anonymous, lego pieces. It came with a fairly lengthy instruction book with dozens of things you could build with the set. I had weeks of fun with that set, I could make something new from the book, or maybe combine a couple of them. After a while I had learned enough "techniques" to be able to make things from scratch. After I made something, I would try looking at it or playing with it for a few minutes, but then realize I couldn't get a lot out of enjoyment out of that, so I would take it apart and start building something else. Because building is the point of legos.

I remember a couple times I was given a lego "set" which was pieces and instructions to build one thing. I would spend a couple hours building the thing, which was fun. But then it was built, and I would go back to my box of anonymous legos.

I quickly realized the "sets" were a bit of a waste. After building them once, they just became fodder for my starter box. Most of the "special pieces" that made the set the set, were pretty useless and overrated.

I remember one of my friends had a lot of "sets". One day I was over at his house, and I had an idea. I borrowed the instruction manuals from his sets and asked my mom to photocopy them. I was able to build most of the sets with my starter kit. Some parts I wasn't able to build, but on the other hand I did have enough extra pieces to add parts. To a large extent legos are legos.

In the age of the internet, I am sure this would be even easier. Chris has so much lego now, that he could probably build a good approximation of any of these sets by digging up the instruction manuals from somewhere.

Sigh. I don't know the point of this rant. Clearly he is not willing or able to do this.
 
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Alec Benson Leary said:
So he wants people to buy his violin because he and his mom need money.

But with legos, he just asks for legos directly.

Why is he not asking for money directly for his non-lego needs?
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Because that would be begging for money directly, and Chris and his mother DO NOT patronize soup hotels or any other slanderous suggestions of being low in status.
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Little-Lovely said:
They spent all that money funding the LEGO movie, they have to make it all back somehow.
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I think the movie made good money.

But some of the sets are branded, hence, "Tell your parents you want the official Star Wars set!"

timtommy said:
In the age of the internet, I am sure this would be even easier. Chris has so much lego now, that he could probably build a good approximation of any of these sets by digging up the instruction manuals from somewhere.
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Hmm yeah but then they wouldn't be True and Honest sets.
 
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DrChristianTroy said:
Total movie nerdery but the movie did quite well. It cost $60 million to make and made more than $460 million worldwide. I don't know that advertising budget but it was a p. big critical and commercial success.
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After the theater take and assuming a typical ad budget, that's looking like around $350 million in profit. Not including video.

And, the movie is unique in its cross-promotion dividends, considering that the all the characters themselves were known to begin with as branded toys you can buy. Hell, that's an even bigger tie-in than Transformers because Shia le Boof isn't taking up screen time.
 
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butt in trouble said:
And why ARE they so expensive? They're just little plastic cubes. Goddamn.
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I don't know if it is on here or somewhere else but I saw a link to a story the other day about the costs of Legos. Basically they are very expensive to design, expensive to create the molding for the plastic material is expensive, and there is also demand. Even simple sets today come with more pieces than something similar years ago, so the price per brick might be similar, but there are just more bricks in the box. The movie theater and grand emporium have nearly 2,200 pieces, and the Sea Cow is over 2,700, so you looking at less than 10 cents per piece.
 
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Alright, so let me get this straight: Chris' house had a catastrophic fire, it's almost certainly going to be condemned, he has no real home at the moment, his Mom is slowly getting eaten alive by mites and he's still relying on the that meager :tugboat: to fund his caveman-esque lifestyle. Yet, his first priority is to beg for overpriced kids toys on Facebook to what few "Friends" he has?

This reminds me of that one experiment where some rats were given the choice between drinking water or nicotine everyday. They all chose nicotine every time and they subsequently died. I feel as though Chris has a similar problem: He lacks the ability to tell the difference between what he wants and what he needs.
 
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Some JERK said:
At least he's publicly begging for Legos and not China. He might actually get the Legos.
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Who says Chris won't still publicly beg for china? He's just not having any dangled in front of his face right now, and staying home keeps him from meeting that cute waitress at Golden Corral again. Eventually he's going to mention some cute girl working at a Mcdonald's or Get-Tar or some shit. And she'll be 18. And Chris won't understand why this is fucking creepy.
 
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