u/USMC0317

There are way too many hyper specialized LEGO pieces now, and it honestly kind of ruins the fun. Half the fun used to be grabbing a handful of basic bricks and figuring out how to make something, like a house or car, or helicopter. Even if the bricks were all different colors. Now it feels like every set comes with a piece that already is the thing. Need a spaceship cockpit? Here’s one giant molded chunk. Want a dragon head? Don’t build it, just snap this pre made one on.

It turns building into assembly instead of creativity. You’re not inventing anymore, you’re just following instructions with oddly specific parts that only work for one purpose. And once you take the set apart, good luck reusing half those pieces for anything else, they’re so niche they just sit there.

I remember when I was a kid my brother and I just had two giant blue tubs of regular bricks, and we built whatever we wanted out of them. Lately I’ve been building with my kids, and just trying to build a basic house, like 80% of the pieces are useless because they’re specially designed for one specific set.

Ok that’s all, rant over.