Re:How Lego builds a new Lego set
by crazygringo on Friday December 15, 2023 @11:13AM
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> ...if Lego is mostly dumped after a kid grows up... Anecdotally, most kids don't want old Lego
This is entirely wrong.
Nearly all the toys from my own childhood wound up in the garbage or Goodwill at one point or another... except the Legos. Kids want to build gigantic castles and spaceports of their own -- 20x larger than any sets Lego sells -- and those gigantic environments require having a ton of random assorted pieces.
Legos seem to be the one toy that doesn't get dumped.
> just look online at the moms selling old unwanted Lego cheap
That actually shows the opposite of what you're trying to say. They're not tossing them in the garbage, they are selling them, because they're still perfectly desirable. (Because not everyone winds up with grandkids to give them to, or wants to hold onto them until then.)
This is entirely wrong.
Nearly all the toys from my own childhood wound up in the garbage or Goodwill at one point or another... except the Legos. Kids want to build gigantic castles and spaceports of their own -- 20x larger than any sets Lego sells -- and those gigantic environments require having a ton of random assorted pieces.
Legos seem to be the one toy that doesn't get dumped.
> just look online at the moms selling old unwanted Lego cheap
That actually shows the opposite of what you're trying to say. They're not tossing them in the garbage, they are selling them, because they're still perfectly desirable. (Because not everyone winds up with grandkids to give them to, or wants to hold onto them until then.)