First sustainable Lego pieces to go on sale

Re:First sustainable Lego pieces to go on sale by bradleyjg on Friday March 02, 2018 @12:36PM (#16503752)

A little off topic, but I recently found out that you essentially can't buy plain old legos+ anymore. I wanted to buy some as a gift and I ended up having to buy knock offs because the lego company effectively doesn't sell them anymore.

+ I.e. full height 2x2, 2x3, 2x4

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Re:First sustainable Lego pieces to go on sale by ghostbrainalpha on Friday March 02, 2018 @12:44PM (#16503836)

Is this what you are looking for from Toy's R Us?

https://www.toysrus.com/product?productId=45199456&source=CA...

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Re:First sustainable Lego pieces to go on sale by bradleyjg on Friday March 02, 2018 @12:50PM (#16503907)

That's the closest I found, but it still has plenty of wheels, doors, windows, half height pieces, round pieces, eyes, knobs, flat on top pieces, etc, etc, etc. The child I was buying for has some sets like that, but I wanted to buy just a large number of regular lego blocks for freeform play. I couldn't find anything on their website like that other than individually picking out single blocks.

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Re:First sustainable Lego pieces to go on sale by Avshalom on Friday March 02, 2018 @12:59PM (#16504007)

Pretty sure that's never actually been a thing.

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Re:First sustainable Lego pieces to go on sale by panzagl on Friday March 02, 2018 @01:47PM (#16504501)

Yeah the 'basic' sets I got in the 70's had plenty of wheels, slopes, windows, and those weird articulated arm people- the mythic age of children building everything out of rectangles never really existed.

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Re:First sustainable Lego pieces to go on sale by ghostbrainalpha on Friday March 02, 2018 @01:37PM (#16504397)

The Lego Store near me has bins separated by color. You can buy as many pieces as you need of each size. Kind of like how you buy bulk candy or nuts at Whole Foods.

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Re:First sustainable Lego pieces to go on sale by mcphage on Friday March 02, 2018 @03:28PM (#16505391)

For the price they charge for that, though, they'd be better off buying one of the creative line boxes and throwing out all of the non-rectangular pieces. Which would be dumb to do, but apparently they want those pieces and none others.

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Re:First sustainable Lego pieces to go on sale by icebraining on Friday March 02, 2018 @01:50PM (#16504516)

It seems they have:

https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=5576...

https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=6177...

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Re:First sustainable Lego pieces to go on sale by dragonwriter on Friday March 02, 2018 @02:06PM (#16504665)

All those specialty pieces are useful in freeform play and have definitely been a part of the non-specific Lego boxes since at least when I was getting them as a kid starting in the 1970s.

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Re:First sustainable Lego pieces to go on sale by punchclockhero on Friday March 02, 2018 @01:20PM (#16504235)

Sometimes I see Ebay sellers selling random bricks by the pound.

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Re:First sustainable Lego pieces to go on sale by megaman22 on Friday March 02, 2018 @01:50PM (#16504519)

This is one of the best ways to go. If you're lucky, you can come upon somebody who isn't a professional seller that's getting rid of a whole collection, and snag an entire tub for < $100.

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Re:First sustainable Lego pieces to go on sale by bradleyjg on Friday March 02, 2018 @03:56PM (#16505613)

This is really helpful, thanks. Not sure why I didn't think of it.

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Re:First sustainable Lego pieces to go on sale by enriquto on Friday March 02, 2018 @12:39PM (#16503784)

I don't know where you come from, but in france you can easily buy sets that contain lots of basic bricks (full height 2x2, 2x4, etc), and you can buy them individually, in large batches. It has never been easier than today to find those pieces.

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Re:First sustainable Lego pieces to go on sale by giarc on Friday March 02, 2018 @12:58PM (#16504004)

https://shop.lego.com/en-CA/LEGO-Creative-Supplement-10693

This looks pretty basic.

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Re:First sustainable Lego pieces to go on sale by 52-6F-62 on Friday March 02, 2018 @01:57PM (#16504587)

You can visit the online Lego store and pick out any number of any colour of the plain (or any other) bricks that you want.

https://shop.lego.com/en-CA/Pick-a-Brick

There's a search filter.

You can filter by colour and by name, for ex: 2x4

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Re:First sustainable Lego pieces to go on sale by devmunchies on Friday March 02, 2018 @01:06PM (#16504094)

Go to any LEGO store and they have bins where you can pick and choose single pieces.

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Re:First sustainable Lego pieces to go on sale by dragonwriter on Friday March 02, 2018 @02:00PM (#16504622)

> little off topic, but I recently found out that you essentially can't buy plain old legos+ anymore.

Sure you can. If you just want non-themed sets heavy in classic pieces, they are sold as Lego “Creative Box” or “Creative Set” in various sizes [0]; if you want specific pieces in the common sizes, you can go into a Lego Store and handpick want you want from bins in the wall and pay by the bag.

[0] e.g., https://shop.lego.com/en-US/LEGO-Large-Creative-Brick-Box-10...

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Re:First sustainable Lego pieces to go on sale by Adamantcheese on Friday March 02, 2018 @01:51PM (#16504537)

You can buy individual bricks off Bricklink. It's basically Ebay but exclusively for LEGO.

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Re:First sustainable Lego pieces to go on sale by DanBC on Friday March 02, 2018 @02:27PM (#16504814)

That's a painful way to buy half a kilo of Lego standard blocks though.

Maybe parent poster could buy a couple of kg of Lego from Ebay, then sort and wash it. The wheels, doors, etc can be donated to local charities / goodwill etc.

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Re:First sustainable Lego pieces to go on sale by bitwize on Friday March 02, 2018 @12:45PM (#16503856)

There's a Lego store near me where I can buy pieces by the spadeful. I'm not sure what you're on about.

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