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Grew up a huge lego fan. I sent this link around my office, wondering if anybody else would think it was as interesting as I did. Everybody is now buzzing with cinder block mania, with no prior cinder block / brick laying experience :)

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The skeptic in me struggles to believe an office full of adults is excited about mini cinderblocks...

That's one advantage of having small kids. I definitely enjoy playing with some of the toys more than they do :)

A few years ago, a week before Christmas, one of the guys disappeared over lunch time and came buck with the full Lego pirate ship. All work in the office ceased for a couple of hours as we fought over who got to build bits of it.

It isn't a huge surprise that engineers enjoy building things.

Eh, thats a terrible example. Most people would rather get paid to build a lego ship than do actual work. Has nothing to do with being an engineer.

Do you not know any actual adults? They're not all 'lord business' you know ;)

I do, none of them were amused by this. Their kids on the other hand were. Seems like a great marketing campaign, nothing more.

alright :) enjoy

yeah, you too ;)

Miniature things in general are pretty irresistible. Send the company's instagram account around. It's direly cute.

Miniature things are definitely attractive, I will give you that. But no one i have showed this to over the age of 13 was even slightly interested in actually purchasing them. They thought it was CUTE sure, but that doesnt mean theyre gonna dump money on a cute novelty. Maybe I just surround myself with dull people? Everyone here is making it seem like im some sort of robot for not seeing why the average adult would consider purchasing this as anything but a gift for a child....

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