AIBU to not like Lego?

[MotherWol]

Yes, I know it's an excellent construction toy, creative, doesn't break easily, but it's so annoying! DD is 5 and just starting to show an interest in it, but all I can see are tiny parts that get lost and endless tidying up - we live in a small home and don't have a playroom, so all of her toys live in her bedroom, which will soon be shared with her baby sister. We really don't have room for e.g. Kallax units and endless boxes.

The inventory manager role is one of my least favourite parts of parenting, and IME one that almost always falls to mothers. At least with Duplo the bits are too big to step on/hoover up and the builds don't have to stay on display. Plus so much of the range aimed at girls is twee nonsense (e.g. the Friends range). I'm probably being VU, but surely I'm not alone in this?

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Love the art studio Legoisthebest

Well my DD hasn’t played with her Lego since last year but out of nowhere today she asked me to get the big crate down and has been sorting through it all. And has said there’s some new sets she would like for Xmas.

Lego is good for kids. A friend was saying recently that her kids music teacher was discussing fine motor skills. They said it has become a real problem as kids aren’t given as many of those sorts of tasks any more in early years to develop those motor skills and also said a surgeon they know is reporting it’s a problem with trainees too. No idea if that’s true or not.

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Ignore the random sentence that was pasted into that by mistake!

I love some of the sets people are posting on here!
Things have moved on and I’m glad.
Lego c1970s/80s was all tanks, fighter jets, boats, cars and submarines 🤨
Hated it.

@MotherWol - I much preferred Duplo. Much easier to build and easier to tidy. Lego play sets get built (mainly by me) then gradually break apart as we have a small house too so not the room to have lots of sets on display, and then never played with again. I have even divided the bricks into colours but it still doesn't get played with much. I've donated loads to school and passed on a big boxful to my nephew but we still have lots. Mine kept playing with Duplo til 7 at least so I avoided Lego until then.

SunShines Lego have never done tanks, fighter jets etc. They don't do anything military because they want to be politically neutral. A technic helicopter set (Osprey?) was recently withdrawn by them because although they released it as a civilian version it's used by military in various countries so they decided not to sell it.

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SunShines Lego have never done tanks, fighter jets etc. They don't do anything military because they want to be politically neutral. A technic helicopter set (Osprey?) was recently withdrawn by them because although they released it as a civilian version it's used by military in various countries so they decided not to sell it.

They may not have sold kits but believe me, that’s all my DBrother made with his awful collection of Lego. I would have loved pink and purple Lego back then.

They may not have sold kits but believe me, that’s all my DBrother made with his awful collection of Lego.
@SunShinesBrightly how is that LEGO's fault? Would you be ranting about Crayola if your brother drew pictures of tanks?

@LittleBearPad - the problem is my DC never really play with the broken up bricks so it is an expensive toy to only play with for a week or so before being abandoned as it has broken and never playing with again. This was why I preferred Duplo as I could rebuild it easily whenever they wanted to play with it.

I love Lego, it's how I met DH. Neither of us cares how much Lego the other buys. It gave us something to talk about on our first date, favourite theme? Fabuland, Scala. It's important to have shared interests.

Banana hello fellow Fabuland fan. The BEST theme Lego have ever made !!

Oh, we had some Fabuland as well. I loved it.
And now it probably seems really weird that I was complaining about different sizes figures as Fabuland's figures were different as well 😂

70s and 80s Lego was deffo not only cars and technical stuff. I had a few houses, riding parcour with horses, holiday home. A good mix of things.
Loved my medieval castle and my pirate ship though.

I love to describe Fabuland to modern kids. "It was like Sylvanian Families but made from Lego" ! Pretty much every response is "OMG.... awesome"

I had Fabuland!! I never knew that was what it was called

DdraigGoch
Who’s ranting?

Well ye’ve convinced me to take another look at Lego friends, it’s obviously come on a bit in the last few years. Always good to have another perspective.

thelegohooverer glad to have you join the Friends of (Lego) Friends Club.
(I just made that name up.... not an official club or anything )

I'm with you OP

I never liked Lego as a child, preferred my dolls, reading and pretending to be a horse,

My own DDs didn't much like Lego either, they preferred dolls and books too.

Hello to the fellow lego fans. I only actually bought a set of my own a couple of years ago when they released Central Perk. Followed recently by the Friends apartments. I love them! I’m also a massive fan of lego friends, but it was always a bugbear that the figures looked different to the standard ones and I hate mixing them. Especially loved the buildings- the grand hotel and the school are my faves. Nothing twee about either of those! Both my kids loved lego and I was heartbroken when they stopped playing with it all at a much younger age than I’d hoped. My dad (70) is also a huge lego fan he loves the vehicles but he will build something and display it forever whereas I like to build something, break it up and build it again.