Mr Mist’s Blog

There’s a magazine thing about Lego being voted the best plastic product ever made [news.bbc.co.uk] and that, at the same time, Lego could be struggling against computers and video games.

I loved lego and I still do love lego, but the problem that I see with it these days is that it seems to have lost track of its roots. Lego used to be about the basic bricks, and using them to build up whatever you liked to have the little lego people wander around in. But now lego is just Harry Potter or Spiderman or whatever the latest craze is, and instead of actually building the things the lego seems to consists of just three bits that you snap together. That’s pointless, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t sell that well.

The people who would be buying lego now would either be the past users of lego buying for their kids, or the hobbiest lego enthusiast who wants to recapture some of the fun. Neither of these sets of people are going to be that impressed by lego versions of the latest fad, in my opinion.

Bring back traditional lego!

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