Too much Lego?

[Sano]

Semi Off Topic. Has anyone else seen the Lego Star Wars cartoon on Cartoon Network? I recommend getting it, its hilarious; at least I think it is.

[garrett123]

I don't like how they add things that didn't actually happen in the series or movie there based off of.

[AppleQueso]

I don't like how they add things that didn't actually happen in the series or movie there based off of.

If it was a straight carbon copy of the movies it'd be kinda pointless...

[garrett123]

I don't like how they add things that didn't actually happen in the series or movie there based off of.

If it was a straight carbon copy of the movies it'd be kinda pointless...

I mean like in the starwars ones where you can play as another class to venture off somewhere.

[Sasha_Blue]

I cant stand lego games, you played one you played them all

[BitFaced]

I cant stand lego games, you played one you played them all

I wonder, does BIONICLE Heroes, another TT LEGO game, fall into that category.

[ZeroAX]

Over here Playmobil was always much bigger, though imo Lego is better because of all the opportunities to create your own stuff.

I've never liked Playmobil. It's essentially uglier, glued-together LEGO.
I used to be so obsessed with those things. There has been LEGO in my house as far as I remember, especially the Star Wars ones, because that was my other obsession. I still have multiple huge containers both up and downstairs. I miss Bionicle.

Yeah I agree, but lego were just much more expensive here (actually I think they still are).
Also Playmobil constitutes a lower chocking hazard?

I remember having this as a kid

It was actually a lot bigger than it looks in that picture.

[J T]

I'll just leave this here.

[Pulsar_t]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29992974

That's been the opinion of many over the past decade or so. Lego has grown as a cultural phenomenon thanks to geek chic, but I don't feel good about it anymore.

[ZeroAX]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29992974

That's been the opinion of many over the past decade or so. Lego has grown as a cultural phenomenon thanks to geek chic, but I don't feel good about it anymore.

I'm going to have to disagree with you buddy. I feel this is the main point:

I know people like to say that it's not what it was, but it's false nostalgia.

It's the usual trap of things being better when "we were kids". And son the topic of Lego's modern busines strategy, I find that the cause justifies the means. A kid is more probably going to be interested in a Lego set with his favorite characters, but it's also going to get quickly bored playing with the standard set and it will start experimenting "What if Hulk could use Iron Man's pants to fly and Thor's hammer to bash buddies?" leading into the experimentation that the toy is known and loved for.

Mind you some kids will just build the set, play with it and abandon it, but those kids probably wouldn't have cared for Legos in the first place. So this strategy 1) increases sales for the company, which is good, specially with how expensive the pieces are to make. 2) It exposes more kids to Lego, so if even only 50% of those kids who wouldn't have touched lego before start making creative things, that's still a huge benefit, no?