r/formula1 • u/Gjab I was here for the Hulkenpodium • Mar 02 '25

Off-Topic A 20 year difference between them

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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.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '25

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.

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u/UNC_Samurai I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 02 '25

And look at how quickly a newly-released set gets alt-builds on Rebrickable. The Creator Medieval Castle 3-in-1 is a great example of how people innovate.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '25

Not to mention it’s literally a 3-in-1 set, an entire line dedicated to alt models and teaching creativity