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Drnick:

--- Quote from: Mr. Peabody on January 10, 2019, 03:05:01 am ---I don't get these 'pre-makes'. Just buy the toy.

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I'll put it like this, in slightly larger building terms. When I want to build a lean-to or a shed I design and build my own, But If I want to build a house I hire an architect and follow his plans.

Howard_Casto:
Isn't the hole point of lego the act of building it though? If you want a model of something lego is a piss-poor medium what with the ugly studs and seams and what not.

Drnick:
All the enjoyment was in the building, Sure it may be the ugliest of all the castle models that are in the room, but me and the wife can say to others when they see it, yep we put that together.

Now if you had given me a box with the 4000+ bits included with the castle but no instructions and no picture of how it should look I would probably have been able to put something that resembles the castle together, but it would have been more than a little wonky and by no means as sturdy as it is. :)

Now that I can recognise a lot of the bits used in this build and the way they were used together I may use the Lego Designer software and see if I can make a sleeping beauty castle similar to Disneyland's castle.

ark_ader:
Sometimes these kits are too complicated and destroys what Lego is supposed to be. Your interpretation of a said space vehicle and playing with that, or creating something new from standard parts. Now the bricks are only for the original model concept. Some are pretty sharp for small children. I got stabbed easily for not watching what I was doing. It's not mecanno or an airfix kit, but it's trying to be.I

I miss the simplicity of the 1980's space lego, trains and the original bricks we started from.

jdbailey1206:
My belief is the larger builds are geared more to the 'kids at heart' demographic. Build them once and you have something to showpiece and not to play with. (Or play with when no is looking. I don't judge. :laugh:) There are many Youtube videos showing how to build other versions of something with the same kit. BrickBrosUK is just one example.

Being a fan of Lego growing up I have found a new revitalized appreciation for them all over again. The one thing I have noticed though is that, for whatever reason, the bricks out of the new sets just don't seem to stick together like they did in the 80's. When I put my Tie Fighter together pieces would just fall apart to no fault of my own. I've even noticed this when I helped put together my daughters sets. The polymer that Lego uses seems a little weaker than it used to be.

I would also recommend watching A Lego Brickumentary on Amazon and of course The Toys That Made Us episode.

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