A guide to building Lego Classic Town cars
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*good times
The Xbox Series X and PS5 both play DVDs. If physical media players still exist in 2032, I wouldn't be surprised if they still play DVDs.
Indeed. My grandson has a ton of lego, and the "old" stuff (you know, brick-shaped bricks) is all used in his various creations. So when we go to play together, he has a bin of "available" parts, except they're all weird one-offs that don't have studs on top. Once you use one on something, well, that's it, no building above that. Really frustrating, and amazingly hard to put even something really basic together.
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No need to gatekeep fun. People tend to overestimate how attractive their own lawns are.
A friend got sets for her 4 year old. She builds them, kid breaks them. She builds them, kid breaks them. She is bored with building them, but it’s a jet (or whatever) and kid wants the jet, so…she builds them. She now wants the classic sets so the kid can play with the toy instead of the built model.
Friend’s kid just put lights on his millennium falcon. Awesome! I’m not trying to be the Lego police. It’s just a different toy.
The trick then lies in being able to simulate the unique pieces with assemblies of ordinary pieces or pieces that you already have (not always possible), and to use those unique pieces that you do have in new and creative ways to start treating them as ordinary Lego. Some builders have taken this to an entirely new level, for instance in this castle there are all kinds of bits that have been used in ways that they were definitely not intended to achieve a novel effect:
What I intensely dislike is people putting down other people just because they enjoy a _toy_ (something meant to elicit sharing and enjoyment) in a different way than theirs.
Another friend’s wife buys the more complicated sets and admits they’re actually for her, not for her kids. All good, they’ll grow into it :)
Text is such a poor substitute for real life conversations... but on the other hand we never would have interacted if it wasn't for this "text". Sometimes I feel so ambivalent about the Internet...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Racers_(video_game)
You could build your own car brick by brick and then race it, which was pretty dang neat in 1999.
I have not played these but I have heard nothing but praise for the lego star wars games. Do you think they are bad or do you assume they are?
Lego Star Wars is fun, but is exactly the same game as all the other Lego tie-in games.
i dont know much about the cartoons but anecdotally they seem to be popular with their intended audience. after all their ninjago line has been running for ages. certainly their core business is the bread and butter, but i think Lego actually does a pretty good job with their side ventures (missing a minecraft-type opportunity aside)
However, I must acknowledge that the game is impressively fluid when you know that every brick in the world is a real (modifiable, breakable ...) brick.
Essentially point was that Lego was scared of building/allowing a game that allowed "free blocks" as their whole business was selling blocks for money. It seems very short sighted but as any legacy business they tend to fall into that trap.
This is why they allowed various games that utilize block as a art style, but there were not many building games.
I wish current Lego sets were as simple and “blocky” as the ones from the 80s. Some of it is nostalgia, but some is the worry that Lego keeps steering away from the Classic and basic mindset that made it so iconic.
The modern sets are a little less blocky (more curved parts made these days?) but seem to have just as much replay value as when I was a child. Perhaps that's not true of all of them - but then I remember my brother keeping his pirate ship built on his desk for a year or so...
You can buy basic sets still, they are fairly cheap version of lego.
There is something incredibly nostalgic in those simplistic 4 stud wide models though