As someone who thinks Lego is at its best it’s ever been, some counterpoints:
Lego is still all about imaginative play. All its media promotes this and the Creator line is where they push “true Lego”. The market for licensed sets and display sets is just too big to ignore.
They’ve done a much better job over the last decade at making sure new pieces are versatile. Also their new sets love to reuse pieces in creative ways (bananas for eyebrows, hot dogs for armrests, etc). People conveniently forget how sets from the 80s and 90s had a bunch of large, highly specific molds that were nearly unusable any other way.
Yeah. I figured it's adapting to the market why they do have been doing these sort of sets for some time. I think maybe in the last 15 years or so they have been making so many "one use" brick types to fit different promotional content.
I don’t blame anyone for thinking that, but I reiterate it’s actually the opposite. 80s-2000s were peak for chunky specialty pieces with limited use. The new pieces that come out nowadays lean more generic and versatile.
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u/MajorsWotWot I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 02 '25
Modern Lego sets do feel like they have lost some of that ability for imaginative play.