Lego has designed a set that can't be taken apart

Re:Lego has designed a set that can't be taken apart by Grustaf on Friday December 03, 2021 @05:41PM (#29436542)

Yes, the re-build aspect is almost gone. As I kid I got maybe 5-10 original sets over a 10 year period, and a few bags of random bricks, and I played and played with that. Nowadays the idea is more build and forget. If you're lucky they'll play a bit with the finished model, but they don't seem to be making their own.

One fun fact about the instructions, I recently learned from a Lego designer that the reason they use many different colours on the inside of most models is to make it easier to see what's going on while you're building. That explanation never occurred to me, but maybe it's obvious.

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Re:Lego has designed a set that can't be taken apart by AtlasBarfed on Saturday December 04, 2021 @08:29PM (#29445977)

I think the real reason colors have exploded is that it forces you to buy the set to build the model, you can't build models from other sets if the colors are different. Well, you can, but most people are above that level of OCD.

I noticed this after buying a crapton of legos on craigslist for, um, my new kid! I do have a new kid, but anyway, the colors vary far too much now.

Charitably, the colors probably subtly act like antialising does in rasterization, so it might make a blocky model seem more organic. But I think the business of selling more sets is also a sneaky reason.

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Re:Lego has designed a set that can't be taken apart by Grustaf on Saturday December 04, 2021 @10:56PM (#29446568)

I’m talking about differently coloured bricks on the inside of a model. That is definitely not some nefarious scheme to make you buy more lego.

Nowadays there are so many custom pieces and people don’t really rebuild much anyway, so they don’t even need to discourage what you describe using colours.

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