So, @jeff on the Go Rig Or Go Home expressed the common "old man" complaint about the popular interlocking brick system "Lego." Yes, they still sell boxes of bricks. Hearing that part of the stream just now, I admit this post will loose a bit of bite, but I think there's still something more to say.
Naturally selling "Harry Potter" Lego is much more marketable then selling boxes of bricks. Something they've been selling for ages. So that's what gets talked about lately. And of course the adult collectors are going to be raving about the new expensive Millennium Falcon. The type of people that I'm sure dominate Jeff's social sphere. I'm not sure how many kids he knows.
Now I don't know too many kids, so maybe any parents out there can confirm my suspicions. When I was a kid these sets didn't say together very long. I lost pieces and maybe even the instructions. At some point it all just gets mixed in with the big bin of Lego. At that point all it's good for is building from my imagination. The same thing Jeff loved about Lego from when he was a kid.
The Lego movie is set in that great big mixed bin of Lego full of the old generic themes to all the modern licenced sets. It was great about celebrating all the ways to play with Lego. If you're awesomely creative, that's sweet! There's also nothing wrong if you only like to build the sets and stick to the instructions.
Lego, as a company has also been pretty rad about nurturing creativity over the years. Mindstorms introduced kids to programming. Cuusoo/ideas allows builders from the community to submit designs with the possibility of becoming packaged sets. And just look at all the things they are doing over on this page.
Also please, people, stop saying "Legos." It's like taking drill to my ears every time that word is said.
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