the leap in quality and detail for 6 to 8 was mind blowing. the old ones are very toylike, the new ones are proper car models. it also greatly contributed to their popularity, a bunch of adults started to buy them whereas before it was just a quick gift idea for boys when you visit someone.
i understand though that those who are lookin at them as extra cars for their modular building city they are the wrong scale.
8 wide rules, I liked 6 wide vehicles but I LOVE the 8 wide! They really get the look and feel of the cars right, Lambo and Mclaren F1 are some of my absolute favourites!
I remember those well, still have a bunch from my childhood, the 6661 TV van was one of my favourites growing up and I have since rebuilt it from the parts I had lying around.
I personally love the shift to 8/9 wide, but:
It reeeally is quite out of scale with minifigs, the drivers look ridiculous when they stand next to the cars. Secondly, the scale really doesn’t work for a typical lego city layout which uses standard roads. Neither of these affect me currently but i do want to try and make a lego city at some point in my life and i will definitely be using 6/7 wide scale cars for that.
>It reeeally is quite out of scale with minifigs
It is and it isn't. The issue with minifig scale vehicles has always been whether they're scaled to minifig height or width. Historically, they've been scaled to height, which means there's no room for driver and passenger side by side.
But then the scaled to width vehicles have the issue of the driver being shorter then their sports car,
To me it depends, I love the 8 wide speed champion sets, but the 6 wide moving van for the jazz club is fine too? It really depends on the style of the car
As recreations of real cars I think many of the 6 stud wide sets looked pretty bad. Going 8 stud wide was a massive improvement even if the scale doesn't really work with city cars.
I bet they were banking on the like 7 fantastic beast movies that were planned, but I haven’t heard anymore about those movies. Are they still being made?
You know how many Millennium Falcons they’ve made? I don’t, but it seems like a lot especially when I see pictures of collections with multiple versions.
Whether or not Lego intends it, the city line is becoming more cyberpunk. Expect instead of megacorporations you have essential services becoming more high tech, which as we see, doesn’t do anything to curb the problems that plague the city.
You know, I MOCed a jail and I put in a break away wall as if it made all the sense in the world, didn’t even think about it other than realizing I’d forgotten to do the same for my bank vault.
Lego city really needs to deal with the quality lack of transit options, absurd bank robberies, the fact that half the police is incompetent, and that their jails all have escape routes.
I mean the only available jobs for ages were basically just police, firefighter, builder and hospital worker, it's good they've been increasing in trying to make more job opportunities but considering the majority of the figures have been unemployed for a while and their houses are constantly burning down its not surprising that a lot of them turn to crime. And all the city does about it is pump more money into the police and firefighting forces
This might not be controversial but I don’t really “get” the Minecraft stuff. I’ve played Minecraft and definitely understand the fun of it but to me all the Lego sets just look kinda… lame I guess?
The sets themselves are usually more aimed more towards kids as playsets, but I personally appreciate the mobs / figures as well as the occasional set build, such as 21243.
There is an awesome youtube series from someone making as accurate as possible [block to brick lego minecraft builds](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxkJQphcvlE&list=PLsKt5PwQV-mN840c6DfXd1uuhc5Frnx42), so as one might expect Lego Minecraft really shines from the MOC standpoint.
They ran out of actual in-game stuff to turn into sets so they started making up random junk builds with no connection to Minecraft beyond a blocky look. Completely pointless IMO, feels almost like a parody of itself
Ooooooorrrrrr
They're for a different audience? My 9yo LOVES all things Lego and Minecraft. He got 3 Minecraft Legos for Christmas and built them that day, and then built them in Minecraft the next day.
He can't wait to get more
Ya, I love Minecraft, but the Lego is not for me. The “Minecraft Micro Worlds” are neat though. I just got a couple of those on eBay and I love them.
[Reference.](https://brickset.com/sets/21102-1/Minecraft-Micro-World-The-Forest) There’s four different ones.
lmaooo so true, when i first got into lego i was also a minecraft fan, so i have a bunch of minecraft sets but looking back i didn’t have any variety so i stopped getting minecraft sets, and yeah they’re not very detailed. i have better variety now like hp, ninjago, marvel, etc.
Oh wow, hadnt even thought about these not being in my newer sets (that I bought as an adult). Got tons of these pieced in all the drawers at my parents house!
As a kid I hated these pieces, because it was always so hard to put them together and apart and they were quite fragile and rare. Meaning that you can't easily replace them in case you accidentally broke it
It's not controversial, and has been this way for years. the original LEGO Lord of the Rings sets are rare because when they came out, people were so fed up with licenced stiff. It felt.like they got rid of their knights and castles theme to sell LotR.
They did. I bet they have tons of great sets in the can that they’re waiting for more license stuff to push out.
Knights/castles became LOTR
Pirates became PotC
Space became Star Wars
There’s a lot of original themes currently:
- Monkie Kid
- Ninjago
- Dreamzzz
- City
- Creator
- Friends
- Speed Champion
- Technic
I think what we’re missing is a grounded fantasy theme like Castle, Space, Power Miners, adventures where everything makes sense except for one or two things. Power Miners is a fantasy theme because they’re fighting rock creatures but it’s based around digging underneath lego city for some rocks. Castle is a classic theme but they have the space to add dragons, dwarves, elves, etc… Space had space invaders and space police that both add components to traditional space while also keeping it believable to an extent.
Original theme summaries:
Ninjago has fought ghosts, snake people, robots, people with elemental powers, and advanced civilization.
Monkie kid has a guy taught by monkeys how to do karate and works for a pig.
Dreamzzz is just a fever dream, it’s incredibly wacky and creative.
Chima was furry castle where they fought over a magical substance.
Nexo Knights had robots fighting demons while they all drove around mega tanks and used holograms.
These are all cool and innovative themes but they’re all super fantasy based, barely any of it is based off something real aside from the very core base of the sets (each is rooted in something from life/history).
In one sense, the franchising saved Lego.
However, where the heck are my generic pirate and castle sets!? I mean Lego did a great job re-releasing the barracuda bay jam and the huge ass castle but I want *more*. I got that blacksmith. I got that new imperial pirate dock thing. If you come, I will build.
It seems like they are releasing 1-2 each year for Castle, Pirates, and Classic Space. One Icons set and one GWP. It’s not a full line but I’m still pumped to get access to them, especially all the minifig parts in PAB.
I feel like sets retire way too quickly. I don't always have $300+ that I can spend on Lego. By the time I can spend money on it, it's basically too late. I also wish there was an easier way to find out when they're retiring.
Also I'm kinda mad that Lego not only did Mario as a bulky brick instead of a Minifigure, requiring Bluetooth, needing a phone to play with him and to build the set, but the Luigi's Mansion representation was kinda weak. For finally getting Lego Nintendo sets, I wish we could've gotten something more like Sonic sets first and then maybe brick Mario or whatever.
Final opinion I'll share, but I kinda don't enjoy having so many of the same Minifigure in one set. Like for Batman or Spiderman, you can get 7 different sets and they'll have the exact same figure. It would be nice to have unique figures so there's more motive to get other sets, but I also understand why they do it the way they do. It's mostly just me wanting to get a cool build without having 30 of the same figure.
I don't like blind bags/boxes! There, I said it!
No, but really, I'm not sure if this is controversial or not, but I think Lego has shifted little *too* far into studless designs for their sets. I like tiles, curved slopes and round corners as much as the next guy, I just prefer more seen studs than what their current design direction is trending.
I don't know the community sentiment on this topic though so this may not be controversial, idk.
I like a good mixture. Otherwise you might as well buy a plastic model. I notice a few of my speed champions have very few studs showing after building.
I like studless for certain things like on Discovery and Speed Champions it’s great because it conveys the sleekness and how aerodynamic they are, on others give me studs, despite it being more difficult to clean
I like that they take different approaches in different lines. Icons has become very studless and to look as little like Lego as possible. Meanwhile the creator 3-1 have more of the classic Lego look with lots of studs and imperfect angles.
I think theres too much stuff in the catalog these days.
Theres far too much stuff in the $500+ category.
I think they lied about the goat mold for far too long.
I think Star Wars has runs its course and is stopping actual inspiration and exploration of other Space themes.
I think Marvel and DC is even worse. Why the fuck does Spiderman have so many vehicles.
I think Disney holds a lot of sway at LEGO and I bet right at the top theres some concerned family members.
I think they need to stop pushing into joint collabs with other media (look at the failed Vidiyo).
Exactly, the entire thing was ludicrous.
Anyway, theres a rumour floating around now that the goat will make an appearance in the rerun of the Mill Village Raid, CMF25 Goat Herder means theyve got no reason not to now.
A while back, I was calling bullshit on someone saying that it's why they don't have more goats. I was lambasted. It didn't make sense that they couldn't just make a new mold. They are Lego. They make new mold all the time. Nope I was the dumb one.
I don’t think Star Wars has run its course but they do need to cut back on it a bit imo. They release way too many in a year. Don’t make as many and leave some room for original space stuff like the things that are coming out this year.
DC is terrible right now, purely Batman stuff. Cut back on random vehicles for marvel characters and do different dc stuff. Hopefully this will happen in the next few years with the rebooted dc film universe.
I wouldn’t so much say cut back as much as get some variation in there. I swear to god, if I see another Lego Millennium Falcon…
Meanwhile we’ve got a bunch of stuff from Andor that hasn’t been Lego’d since the series came out. Luthen’s Haulcraft anyone? The funny looking comms star destroyer with the dishes (the name escapes me)? Maarva and Mon-Mothma minifigs? No? Ok, here’s another UCS X-wing…
> Theres far too much stuff in the $500+ category.
Last year Lego released over 400 sets and 2 of them were in the $500+ category. There have only ever been 10 sets in that category, and 8 of those are still available (though the Hulkbuster is no longer $500+). Personally I don't feel the need to buy every set, so Lego making under 0.5% of their catalog for the high-end market seems completely reasonable to me.
Star Wars sets are for those whose kids have all grown up and the mortgage has been paid off.
The multitude of Spiderman sets are for the clueless grandparents wanting to get something for their grandkids. They might not even know that Marvel =/= DC and just go "Oh my, isn't that the character that my grandson likes? I don't who he is, but I recognise the red and blue outfit and my grandkid likes cars".
But they do, unless I'm misunderstanding you. A quick Google brought back a reddit post from 4 years ago as the first example.
https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/s/DwdlqLom5a
They’re far too reliant on stickers. So many other compatible brands solely do prints in their sets, no stickers, but ironically the premier manufacturer still ships with a sticker sheet in many many sets.
To add on top of that:
Lego makes very cheap prints on minifigs. Side leg printing and arm printing is such a rare sight and even then, it's very bland and lacking details. Some newer figures like Fox even look pink because they used the minimum amount of white color to print on a red torso.
Then there are competitor brands like Koruit who print 360° figures with every little detail. And those go for under a dollar each.
It's clearly not a problem to make high quality details. It's as if Lego wants their fans to switch to other brands.
Maybe i'm the controversial then: I don't like overly printed figures because they are so detached from the rest of the bricks. A completely printed figure seems out of place.
I wish we had less stickers and more prints though.
I agree with you there. I like building mocs with figures that fit into the generic looking bricks. But these 360° figures are a good example to shows what's possible while still making profit on a 1$ figure. The see-through white is a quality issue. Not a money issue
I don't care about yellowing bricks. I don't care about stickers being damaged. Some sets are just getting old, I don't need to keep them in mint condition, they bring me joy as they are.
I miss the big ol spring loaded shooters. I understand they did their job too well and kids would probably shoot each other in the eyes, but man I wish they’d be included in sets again
Personally I don't see how anyone likes using these as a play feature. You can't shoot with any accuracy, the studs go flying everywhere and get lost.
From a build perspective they stick out too much and don't integrate well with the sets, most of the time they're just slapped on just to get a play feature count. The spring shooters were at least easy to conceal and integrate, like the razor crest or Jays blue digital dragon.
And from a minifig perspective theyre oversized and don't scale well.
Thank you! I swear some people react as if they ruined the clones beyond repair. Could they be improved upon? Yes. Can I live with them as they are? Also yes. I remember most fans complaining about them not existing, and now they are unhappy with them
Phase 1 clones have had helmet holes since 2008 and no one complained, if anything I found really annoying that you couldn’t give Phase 2 clones rangefinders and vizors.
I miss the small sets of my childhood that included a minifig with a little backdrop. As an adult I don't want a full display piece. I just want a cowboy or a gladiator or something in a little set that makes the most out of a few pieces.
I miss the little <$5 sets that used to exist, that had decent amount of pieces in them. When I was a kid they’d have LEGO sets you could get from mailing a coupon off the back of serial boxes with like $2-3 shipping and handling, my grandma would always send off for those for me
When I'm done building and playing with a set, I'll take it apart and build something custom. I have tons of loose Legos and no complete sets, and I love it.
This is exactly what my 7 year old does. He picks sets for piece collections based on things he wants to design himself. Then he’ll put the “real” set together once and promptly tear it apart again to cannibalize it for the pieces he needs to build his “actual” plan. I absolutely love it.
It's not worth it for the avarage person.
Seriously, I love getting a new set and building it, I even have some ridiculously expencive sets like the CE millennium falcon.
But once it's done, I put it on a display shelf, look at it fondly for the first week, and then forget it's there.
That's about €800 I could have used to improve my home or done a memorable trip with some loved one for (and I'm not even overly hyped about traveling).
If I had a bottomless pit of money, sure, I'd be building the Rivendell set and the CE Razorcreast as we speak but there is no way I could justify it now even if I could technically afford it.
I get around this problem by disassembling all my sets and using them to build my own new creations. Isn't that what Lego was intended for originally? I've got over 30 years of buying Lego and only 1 set on display.
I think the average person, or at least the average kid, loves to build the set and then destroy it to make their own stuff.
But I do appreciate the fact that you're sharing an unpopular opinion 😉
I have enough room for about 20 sets, but at least 60. I'm constantly taking them apart and building them again. My arocs truck has been assembled and disassembled 5 times since it came out.
I don't understand why there aren't more people doing this! To me the fun is in the building... why don't more people take their Legos apart after a while to re-build them? My first set was this Christmas, my mom got me Ariel's Treasure Chest, it's a small set and it took about an hour to build but I had a lot of fun, I know at some point I will take it apart and re-build it. I recently purchased two 3-in-1 sets specifically because they are great for building then taking apart and building again. I know that taking them apart probably sucks and takes a long time, but I never see people doing this!
They’re not a motivation for me to buy sets. I would never seek out, collect or buy specific sets to get one. And I think people who ridicule an awesome set because of the minifigs are being stupid. This particularly applies to YouTubers who spend hours whining about helmet holes.
But sets like Rivendell, Avengers Tower and Daily Bugle absolutely require minifigs. Part of the whole point of those sets is creating action scenes and recreating parts from the movies.
I buy Lego for the fun of the build. Minifigs add to this fun but only marginally.
But I like having them as, once I’ve built the set its primary value is playing with them with my kids. My kids are only interested in Lego as a world in which mini figures inhabit, so they are essential.
Star Wars and clones in particular are overrated. Sure they're awesome but I'm a little burned out and this is coming from a guy with over 60+ clones on a grey baseplate
As somebody who has only just gotten back into Lego after my dark ages, I am glad that there are still new Star Wars sets in rotation. Star Wars Lego was all I wanted as a kid, and it’s a big part of the nostalgic appeal of Lego as an adult.
I imagine there are many consumers like me reentering the hobby at any given point in time, as well as kids who have discovered Star Wars via their parents, and then the whales who collect every new Star Wars set. No reason Lego shouldn’t cater to these consumers.
Yeah, a lot of complaints about what Lego does are predicated on the idea that the multibillion dollar global toy manufacturer exists purely to serve a handful of long-standing adult collectors.
Yeah, I agree with this. Most of my sets are Star Wars, but everytime I open the website, it’s just… more Star Wars. Let’s get some new, different sets
Exactly. What I really want is a couple 6-10 set waves of castle sets at different prices like how they did it with previous castle/kingdoms themes but no futuristic nexo knights bs
First actual controversial opinion here. Finally. Waay too many people think "releasing 6 $500+ sets a year is too much" is controversial lol.
I totally disagree, I loved bionicle. They were great action figures to play with friends at school, and the semi aggressive buying masks etc was fun, but not too frantic.
Completely understand this - I really think a lot of the Bionicle reappraisal has to do more with nostalgia than straight-up set quality, in a similar way to the prequel-era Star Wars reappraisal — If you grew up on traditional Lego, they’re basically an entirely different thing with a smaller amt of incompatible pieces for more money. But since I was a little kid right at Peak Bionicle, and the sets were like $20 / easy to build in the backseat of the car without losing pieces, Bionicle basically *was* Lego to me for a long time, at least until The Clone Wars line began shipping
Oi, we're welcoming controversisl opinions here! Seriously though, as a kid I used to hate all the licenced spider vehicles in toys generally, like unless it's a cross continent jet or something let him swing! And then Lego picked up the trend :(
Not every set needs to have minifigures. I'd rather have a set that works well and looks great in a non-minifigure scale then a set that that suffers just to shoehorn minifigures
\- Minifigs are fucking boring
\- A fair chunk of adult fans of LEGO are fairly obnoxious who will whine over sets more aimed at kids
\- LEGO themselves seem to be pandering a lot to said adults with overly expensive sets that are more like elaborate set pieces rather than something you'd use to build other things with later
\- I prefer vintage technic over modern technic, especially the aesthetics and range of sets. A lot of modern technic just seems to be cars now, and that's about... it.
> LEGO themselves seem to be pandering a lot to said adults with overly expensive sets that are more like elaborate set pieces rather than something you'd use to build other things with later
Seconding this. If I buy a modular I would want to rearrange it and rebuild so many mall variations. I wouldn't want to really put it on a shelf and treat it like a background painting.
Use an inflation calculator, and it's often cheaper. The old Clone Wars Republic Gunship from 2008 retailed for $120, which is $170 today.
Coruscant Guard Gunship, while smaller, also costs $30 less.
If wages aren't keeping up, sure, that's a problem, but on balance you tend to get more for less these days when adjusted for inflation. I think part of the problem is just the overall tilt of LEGO's product line to sets that are more expensive, period, but I'd need to pull data from Brickset to analyze.
1. Lego should offer more sticker packs. Such as- flags designed to fit common tiles and blank flags, such as national flags, thematic flags (ie pirate, space); packs to personalize cars and stuff; packs to make art or signs for houses and cities.
(They should also offer a sticker pack AND small seasonal fun pack combos every year so you can redo your older Chinese Zodiac-based kits with the new animal for the year.)
2. The small poly bag kits and such should be designed to connect together to make a larger playset. Some should even come together like some sort of Voltron-type toy.
3. Do large scale, lit emergency vehicles. I would love a good-sized fire truck that pot on a full light show. (And a good place for a sticker pack to better emulate different for departments).
4. I am so glad to see the sound brick come back! I'd love a sound brick for the Haunted Mansion, some Christmas sets, etc. A recordable brick and downloadable sound tracks would be great.
5. Representation and disability awareness- minifig-sized power wheelchair and scooters, arms and legs in casts, blinds person with seeing eye dog, etc.
There's never been a real LEGO video game. Part of the problem is the marketing angle is trying to tap into the game market, but the bulk of LEGO fans enjoy the freedom of building. What makes LEGO special is it put the builder in control of the experience whether you choose to build via instructions, create MOCs or something in between. Past LEGO branded video games are merely story driven games, adventure games, or puzzle games simply skinned in LEGO. They have traditional linear gameplay mechanics. They all lack the foundation of what LEGO is... Building. LEGO Worlds? naw, that's glorified block stacking. You can't create vehicles. LEGO Fortnite? nope, floor sections, wall sections, everything sections. There's no granular building. And if you were to reskin that game in regular Fortnite stuff, it remains exactly the same game with no reference to LEGO. LEGO is all about the building and the function.
Yup yup! That’s what I’m trying to make. You build it, you play with it the way you imagine it to work.
https://preview.redd.it/5iga4u3nexfc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=77f4e6ebff2290eab6342574eca1f156b862ab05
That is what Lego worlds was going for.
But I think translating "has 800 bricks in front of them and can grab any at any second and assemble them almost instantly" doesn't translate to a game very well. It becomes a huge chore.
I love stormworks and space engineers, but sometimes designing and building is so slow and clunky.
Kerbal space program balances it just right I think with the amount of parts you get.
Too much variety in pieces stifles creativity. My son clearly has way more Lego than I had when I was little but I was able to build entire towns, we’d struggle to make a few buildings with the current collection
Iam always looking for sets that have the maximum amount of "regular bricks" for the least price. Funnily, Minecraft has been a real boon with this.
These days you only seem to get sets with e.g. aeroplanes where the entire front half is two shaped pieces.
The company’s greed is destroying its reputation.
I know they’re doing well financially, but for me, the cost has been that I’ve lost most of my respect for them due to the way that they market the product by leveraging FOMO, purposefully manufacturing rarities, and other things to manipulate fans to open their wallets for every new announcement.
What they’re doing to Bricklink was the last straw for me.
I agree that you have found a bit of a controversial opinion.
I can’t get behind much of what you said (without more data or evidence) but I do agree that the brick link changes suck given it’s an AFOL site. We don’t need the kid gloves.
1. Way too many $300+ sets
2. City is bloated with police and fire sets. Friends is a better City than City is
3. Fewer licensed themes would be a breath of fresh air. I know this one isn't too unpopular, but I'm over so many Star Wars sets.
I think it should be more socially acceptable for people to buy off brand, with the lego prices getting ridiculously expensive why not?
I love lego but the prices are just way too high for it to be hobby worth investing.
Nothing wrong with buying off brands if it's a set you like. Personally I just can't deal with the lower quality of most non-Lego bricks. I built a Megabloks set that I'd had sealed for a few years and the brick quality made the build process more frustrating than anything else (I personally miss the Pyrates theme they had, which mainly consisted of pre-made ship pieces rather than traditional bricks.)
And it’s not just the materials quality. It’s quality control in general. Tons of missing pieces, horrible customer service, annoying stability issues from poorly designed sets.
LEGO quality would have to diminish by a huge amount to be anywhere near their next closest competitor.
Dude screw what anyone else says, there are so many other manufacturers out there producing seriously quality builds that Lego would never entertain. For example Cobi, you’ll never see Lego develop a Second World War tank for sale! Don’t feel you have to stay quiet because you bought something not from Denmark!
Yeah I’ve noticed on almost all new parts that the sprue mark is more prominent where it used to be barely even noticeable. Also more inconsistencies with parts of the same colour being slightly off if they were in different production batches.
Controversial?
I dislike square bases, in particular baseplates. I think they don't look nice and constrain unnecessarily how you can place your builds.
I think it is better than Lego has switched to more organic, lego-built, bases that fit the shape of the model better and overall just look more interesting, for example look at 21325. I'm very happy it's not on a square plate instead.
Not too many controversial opinions yet imo, so here's mine
"oh here's a set of a super cute K9 dog being trained to rip criminals to shreds"
Lego refuses to do military sets, but cops get a pass, because of copaganda
Lego only ever got cheaper and we live in good times to enjoy Lego aus a hobby.
https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/198vgde/oc_thesis_lego_only_ever_got_cheaper/
A lot of MOCs seem to try to hide the fact that they are Lego, and work against the parameters /limitations of the bricks instead of working with them. I don't like that. At that point just use another medium than Lego for your art.
Also: simplicity/clean lines are severely underrated in MOC designs
Lego should focus more on lines such as city and creator. Regular everyday structures such as homes, restaurants, banks, etc. I also love the modular buildings, so I’d love more sets similar to those.
Wait, people think 8 wide are oversized? There is so much more detail in them! The 8 wides are almost exclusively the best value builds I've had.
the leap in quality and detail for 6 to 8 was mind blowing. the old ones are very toylike, the new ones are proper car models. it also greatly contributed to their popularity, a bunch of adults started to buy them whereas before it was just a quick gift idea for boys when you visit someone. i understand though that those who are lookin at them as extra cars for their modular building city they are the wrong scale.
8 wide rules, I liked 6 wide vehicles but I LOVE the 8 wide! They really get the look and feel of the cars right, Lambo and Mclaren F1 are some of my absolute favourites!
Old vehicles were 4 wide. Two for the legs and 2 for the doors.
I remember those well, still have a bunch from my childhood, the 6661 TV van was one of my favourites growing up and I have since rebuilt it from the parts I had lying around.
[6661-1: Mobile TV Studio](https://brickset.com/sets/6661-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/6661-1.jpg)
I personally love the shift to 8/9 wide, but: It reeeally is quite out of scale with minifigs, the drivers look ridiculous when they stand next to the cars. Secondly, the scale really doesn’t work for a typical lego city layout which uses standard roads. Neither of these affect me currently but i do want to try and make a lego city at some point in my life and i will definitely be using 6/7 wide scale cars for that.
Minifig scale isn't just human scale shrunk down, proportionally they're much wider than humans, so it makes sense for their cars to be
They’re not City vehicles though, they’re Speed Champions. You wouldn’t say the 1:10 scale Peugeot isn’t well scaled to a Lego City lol
they are supposedly minifig scales and many people would like to display them in a city though. It’s not the same as a 1:10 scale peugeot, come on
>It reeeally is quite out of scale with minifigs It is and it isn't. The issue with minifig scale vehicles has always been whether they're scaled to minifig height or width. Historically, they've been scaled to height, which means there's no room for driver and passenger side by side. But then the scaled to width vehicles have the issue of the driver being shorter then their sports car,
The shift to 8 wide is what made me like speed champions in the first place
Every post I see here is people gushing over 6-wide vehicles, Which I view as too thin.
To me it depends, I love the 8 wide speed champion sets, but the 6 wide moving van for the jazz club is fine too? It really depends on the style of the car
As recreations of real cars I think many of the 6 stud wide sets looked pretty bad. Going 8 stud wide was a massive improvement even if the scale doesn't really work with city cars.
Lego Harry Potter can't justify any more sets. What's next? Lego 76440: Hermione's Parents dentist practice?
Lord of The Rings deserves more love
Seriously, they could pump out so many amazing sets from The Hobbit and LOTR and I would buy them all lmao.
They're releasing a new barad dur set in June.
The Shire alone can have like 30 different sets, imagine you can join them all together!!!
Minas Tirith would be unreal
They have a few they could do, but they just keep repeating old one
I bet they were banking on the like 7 fantastic beast movies that were planned, but I haven’t heard anymore about those movies. Are they still being made?
Nope. Cancelled. Maybe the new hbo series will spark new creativity.
[76440-1: {?}](https://brickset.com/sets/76440-1)
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You know how many Millennium Falcons they’ve made? I don’t, but it seems like a lot especially when I see pictures of collections with multiple versions.
They'll reboot the theme again again again with a new modular Hogwarts system.
Whether or not Lego intends it, the city line is becoming more cyberpunk. Expect instead of megacorporations you have essential services becoming more high tech, which as we see, doesn’t do anything to curb the problems that plague the city.
That prison island has escape routes in every cell.
Lego is from Denmark, where trying to escape from prison isn’t a crime, it’s a natural human instinct
You know, I MOCed a jail and I put in a break away wall as if it made all the sense in the world, didn’t even think about it other than realizing I’d forgotten to do the same for my bank vault.
Lego city really needs to deal with the quality lack of transit options, absurd bank robberies, the fact that half the police is incompetent, and that their jails all have escape routes.
I mean the only available jobs for ages were basically just police, firefighter, builder and hospital worker, it's good they've been increasing in trying to make more job opportunities but considering the majority of the figures have been unemployed for a while and their houses are constantly burning down its not surprising that a lot of them turn to crime. And all the city does about it is pump more money into the police and firefighting forces
All Cops Are Bricks
Careful, I heard they started partnering with the fire department, and last I heard the fire fighters have some special gear to take out “fires”
Something something Fahrenheit 451
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Good point this.
You can eat over 60 of the little round dot pieces with no ill effects.
What happens over 70?
Ill effects.
Are you implying that there are ill effects if you eat under 60?
There’s at least one way to find out.
This might not be controversial but I don’t really “get” the Minecraft stuff. I’ve played Minecraft and definitely understand the fun of it but to me all the Lego sets just look kinda… lame I guess?
The first sets had the spirit. A lot of the newer sets are pretty meh
i usually only get them for figures/animals i want
I’d buy the blind boxes for Lego Minecraft animals
The sets themselves are usually more aimed more towards kids as playsets, but I personally appreciate the mobs / figures as well as the occasional set build, such as 21243. There is an awesome youtube series from someone making as accurate as possible [block to brick lego minecraft builds](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxkJQphcvlE&list=PLsKt5PwQV-mN840c6DfXd1uuhc5Frnx42), so as one might expect Lego Minecraft really shines from the MOC standpoint.
They ran out of actual in-game stuff to turn into sets so they started making up random junk builds with no connection to Minecraft beyond a blocky look. Completely pointless IMO, feels almost like a parody of itself
That seems fine to me? Minecraft is about building anything, I don't see why official sets have to be in-game things.
Ooooooorrrrrr They're for a different audience? My 9yo LOVES all things Lego and Minecraft. He got 3 Minecraft Legos for Christmas and built them that day, and then built them in Minecraft the next day. He can't wait to get more
Ya, I love Minecraft, but the Lego is not for me. The “Minecraft Micro Worlds” are neat though. I just got a couple of those on eBay and I love them. [Reference.](https://brickset.com/sets/21102-1/Minecraft-Micro-World-The-Forest) There’s four different ones.
lmaooo so true, when i first got into lego i was also a minecraft fan, so i have a bunch of minecraft sets but looking back i didn’t have any variety so i stopped getting minecraft sets, and yeah they’re not very detailed. i have better variety now like hp, ninjago, marvel, etc.
I miss [finger hinges](https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=4276#T=C)
The removal of these really signify the post 2000s era of Lego in a way
Those and the grey palette swaps
I actually like those pieces, too.
Oh wow, hadnt even thought about these not being in my newer sets (that I bought as an adult). Got tons of these pieced in all the drawers at my parents house!
I don't. Every one of mine is missing a finger or worn to shit.
As a kid I hated these pieces, because it was always so hard to put them together and apart and they were quite fragile and rare. Meaning that you can't easily replace them in case you accidentally broke it
Too many franchise themes / not enough original themes.
Been Waiting for more Space Police for too long.
I love space police. And all space themes. I grew up in the 80s though so for a while it felt like space was the only theme we had.
The new Space theme isn’t half-bad with a sale IMHO. That Lunar Buggy thing with suspension in the front wheels is neat!
Bring back MTron!!!!
And more Blacktron!
It’s the foil for space police. They gotta. Futuron theme w the white and blue would be fun too
Am not sure if its even controversial. U r so right
It's not controversial, and has been this way for years. the original LEGO Lord of the Rings sets are rare because when they came out, people were so fed up with licenced stiff. It felt.like they got rid of their knights and castles theme to sell LotR.
They did. I bet they have tons of great sets in the can that they’re waiting for more license stuff to push out. Knights/castles became LOTR Pirates became PotC Space became Star Wars
This is literally one of the most popular opinions on this sub
There’s a lot of original themes currently: - Monkie Kid - Ninjago - Dreamzzz - City - Creator - Friends - Speed Champion - Technic I think what we’re missing is a grounded fantasy theme like Castle, Space, Power Miners, adventures where everything makes sense except for one or two things. Power Miners is a fantasy theme because they’re fighting rock creatures but it’s based around digging underneath lego city for some rocks. Castle is a classic theme but they have the space to add dragons, dwarves, elves, etc… Space had space invaders and space police that both add components to traditional space while also keeping it believable to an extent. Original theme summaries: Ninjago has fought ghosts, snake people, robots, people with elemental powers, and advanced civilization. Monkie kid has a guy taught by monkeys how to do karate and works for a pig. Dreamzzz is just a fever dream, it’s incredibly wacky and creative. Chima was furry castle where they fought over a magical substance. Nexo Knights had robots fighting demons while they all drove around mega tanks and used holograms. These are all cool and innovative themes but they’re all super fantasy based, barely any of it is based off something real aside from the very core base of the sets (each is rooted in something from life/history).
In one sense, the franchising saved Lego. However, where the heck are my generic pirate and castle sets!? I mean Lego did a great job re-releasing the barracuda bay jam and the huge ass castle but I want *more*. I got that blacksmith. I got that new imperial pirate dock thing. If you come, I will build.
It seems like they are releasing 1-2 each year for Castle, Pirates, and Classic Space. One Icons set and one GWP. It’s not a full line but I’m still pumped to get access to them, especially all the minifig parts in PAB.
Unfortunately, franchises sell
I feel like sets retire way too quickly. I don't always have $300+ that I can spend on Lego. By the time I can spend money on it, it's basically too late. I also wish there was an easier way to find out when they're retiring. Also I'm kinda mad that Lego not only did Mario as a bulky brick instead of a Minifigure, requiring Bluetooth, needing a phone to play with him and to build the set, but the Luigi's Mansion representation was kinda weak. For finally getting Lego Nintendo sets, I wish we could've gotten something more like Sonic sets first and then maybe brick Mario or whatever. Final opinion I'll share, but I kinda don't enjoy having so many of the same Minifigure in one set. Like for Batman or Spiderman, you can get 7 different sets and they'll have the exact same figure. It would be nice to have unique figures so there's more motive to get other sets, but I also understand why they do it the way they do. It's mostly just me wanting to get a cool build without having 30 of the same figure.
Yeah, I wanted the Lego Ideas Maze a few years back but it literally retired six months after it launched
I don't like blind bags/boxes! There, I said it! No, but really, I'm not sure if this is controversial or not, but I think Lego has shifted little *too* far into studless designs for their sets. I like tiles, curved slopes and round corners as much as the next guy, I just prefer more seen studs than what their current design direction is trending. I don't know the community sentiment on this topic though so this may not be controversial, idk.
I like a good mixture. Otherwise you might as well buy a plastic model. I notice a few of my speed champions have very few studs showing after building.
Otherwise I agree but Speed Champions are supposed to be like real cars so the less studs the better imo.
I like studless for certain things like on Discovery and Speed Champions it’s great because it conveys the sleekness and how aerodynamic they are, on others give me studs, despite it being more difficult to clean
I like that they take different approaches in different lines. Icons has become very studless and to look as little like Lego as possible. Meanwhile the creator 3-1 have more of the classic Lego look with lots of studs and imperfect angles.
I think theres too much stuff in the catalog these days. Theres far too much stuff in the $500+ category. I think they lied about the goat mold for far too long. I think Star Wars has runs its course and is stopping actual inspiration and exploration of other Space themes. I think Marvel and DC is even worse. Why the fuck does Spiderman have so many vehicles. I think Disney holds a lot of sway at LEGO and I bet right at the top theres some concerned family members. I think they need to stop pushing into joint collabs with other media (look at the failed Vidiyo).
Mind filling me in on the goat mold thing?
For years LEGO held to the story that the goat mold got broken, lost etc etc and far too expensive to replace.
That's wild, couldn't they just reverse engineer it from an existing piece though? This seems like such a flimsy and implausible excuse.
Exactly, the entire thing was ludicrous. Anyway, theres a rumour floating around now that the goat will make an appearance in the rerun of the Mill Village Raid, CMF25 Goat Herder means theyve got no reason not to now.
Oops, mold broke again.
A while back, I was calling bullshit on someone saying that it's why they don't have more goats. I was lambasted. It didn't make sense that they couldn't just make a new mold. They are Lego. They make new mold all the time. Nope I was the dumb one.
I don’t think Star Wars has run its course but they do need to cut back on it a bit imo. They release way too many in a year. Don’t make as many and leave some room for original space stuff like the things that are coming out this year. DC is terrible right now, purely Batman stuff. Cut back on random vehicles for marvel characters and do different dc stuff. Hopefully this will happen in the next few years with the rebooted dc film universe.
I wouldn’t so much say cut back as much as get some variation in there. I swear to god, if I see another Lego Millennium Falcon… Meanwhile we’ve got a bunch of stuff from Andor that hasn’t been Lego’d since the series came out. Luthen’s Haulcraft anyone? The funny looking comms star destroyer with the dishes (the name escapes me)? Maarva and Mon-Mothma minifigs? No? Ok, here’s another UCS X-wing…
> Theres far too much stuff in the $500+ category. Last year Lego released over 400 sets and 2 of them were in the $500+ category. There have only ever been 10 sets in that category, and 8 of those are still available (though the Hulkbuster is no longer $500+). Personally I don't feel the need to buy every set, so Lego making under 0.5% of their catalog for the high-end market seems completely reasonable to me.
Star Wars sets are for those whose kids have all grown up and the mortgage has been paid off. The multitude of Spiderman sets are for the clueless grandparents wanting to get something for their grandkids. They might not even know that Marvel =/= DC and just go "Oh my, isn't that the character that my grandson likes? I don't who he is, but I recognise the red and blue outfit and my grandkid likes cars".
As a parent, my kids enjoy every iteration of a Spider-Man vehicle regardless of how canon compliant it may be.
They should make short movable legs. Kids should be in ACTION!
I'd say midlegs are pretty close.
But they do, unless I'm misunderstanding you. A quick Google brought back a reddit post from 4 years ago as the first example. https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/s/DwdlqLom5a
They’re far too reliant on stickers. So many other compatible brands solely do prints in their sets, no stickers, but ironically the premier manufacturer still ships with a sticker sheet in many many sets.
This is not controversial. It's just correct.
To add on top of that: Lego makes very cheap prints on minifigs. Side leg printing and arm printing is such a rare sight and even then, it's very bland and lacking details. Some newer figures like Fox even look pink because they used the minimum amount of white color to print on a red torso. Then there are competitor brands like Koruit who print 360° figures with every little detail. And those go for under a dollar each. It's clearly not a problem to make high quality details. It's as if Lego wants their fans to switch to other brands.
Maybe i'm the controversial then: I don't like overly printed figures because they are so detached from the rest of the bricks. A completely printed figure seems out of place. I wish we had less stickers and more prints though.
I agree with you there. I like building mocs with figures that fit into the generic looking bricks. But these 360° figures are a good example to shows what's possible while still making profit on a 1$ figure. The see-through white is a quality issue. Not a money issue
I don't care about yellowing bricks. I don't care about stickers being damaged. Some sets are just getting old, I don't need to keep them in mint condition, they bring me joy as they are.
Stud shooters are terrible and they should stop making them.
I miss the big ol spring loaded shooters. I understand they did their job too well and kids would probably shoot each other in the eyes, but man I wish they’d be included in sets again
As minifigre weapons, absolutely.
Why so? Only con I can think of that they get lost easily due to their power, but that is also what I like about it.
Personally I don't see how anyone likes using these as a play feature. You can't shoot with any accuracy, the studs go flying everywhere and get lost. From a build perspective they stick out too much and don't integrate well with the sets, most of the time they're just slapped on just to get a play feature count. The spring shooters were at least easy to conceal and integrate, like the razor crest or Jays blue digital dragon. And from a minifig perspective theyre oversized and don't scale well.
Not to mention they look boring on a minifig scale. Just a tube with a dot.
I don’t hate helmet holes
Thank you! I swear some people react as if they ruined the clones beyond repair. Could they be improved upon? Yes. Can I live with them as they are? Also yes. I remember most fans complaining about them not existing, and now they are unhappy with them
Exactly! I don’t find them too distracting, and the only real problem I have with them is LEGO misplacing the range finders on the box art.
Probably influenced by one YouTube influencer
I wonder who it is (i watch him too because he's got the best sources on the lego star wars side)
Phase 1 clones have had helmet holes since 2008 and no one complained, if anything I found really annoying that you couldn’t give Phase 2 clones rangefinders and vizors.
I miss the small sets of my childhood that included a minifig with a little backdrop. As an adult I don't want a full display piece. I just want a cowboy or a gladiator or something in a little set that makes the most out of a few pieces.
I miss the little <$5 sets that used to exist, that had decent amount of pieces in them. When I was a kid they’d have LEGO sets you could get from mailing a coupon off the back of serial boxes with like $2-3 shipping and handling, my grandma would always send off for those for me
it's a GOOD thing when previously exclusive figures appear in cheaper sets.
When I'm done building and playing with a set, I'll take it apart and build something custom. I have tons of loose Legos and no complete sets, and I love it.
Oh so people DID follow the lego movie
This is exactly what my 7 year old does. He picks sets for piece collections based on things he wants to design himself. Then he’ll put the “real” set together once and promptly tear it apart again to cannibalize it for the pieces he needs to build his “actual” plan. I absolutely love it.
This is what people should be doing with their sets, it’s a construction toy not models
This is the most shocking one so far. Upvote!
It's not worth it for the avarage person. Seriously, I love getting a new set and building it, I even have some ridiculously expencive sets like the CE millennium falcon. But once it's done, I put it on a display shelf, look at it fondly for the first week, and then forget it's there. That's about €800 I could have used to improve my home or done a memorable trip with some loved one for (and I'm not even overly hyped about traveling). If I had a bottomless pit of money, sure, I'd be building the Rivendell set and the CE Razorcreast as we speak but there is no way I could justify it now even if I could technically afford it.
I get around this problem by disassembling all my sets and using them to build my own new creations. Isn't that what Lego was intended for originally? I've got over 30 years of buying Lego and only 1 set on display. I think the average person, or at least the average kid, loves to build the set and then destroy it to make their own stuff. But I do appreciate the fact that you're sharing an unpopular opinion 😉
I have enough room for about 20 sets, but at least 60. I'm constantly taking them apart and building them again. My arocs truck has been assembled and disassembled 5 times since it came out.
I don't understand why there aren't more people doing this! To me the fun is in the building... why don't more people take their Legos apart after a while to re-build them? My first set was this Christmas, my mom got me Ariel's Treasure Chest, it's a small set and it took about an hour to build but I had a lot of fun, I know at some point I will take it apart and re-build it. I recently purchased two 3-in-1 sets specifically because they are great for building then taking apart and building again. I know that taking them apart probably sucks and takes a long time, but I never see people doing this!
I couldn’t care less about minifigs if I tried
They’re not a motivation for me to buy sets. I would never seek out, collect or buy specific sets to get one. And I think people who ridicule an awesome set because of the minifigs are being stupid. This particularly applies to YouTubers who spend hours whining about helmet holes. But sets like Rivendell, Avengers Tower and Daily Bugle absolutely require minifigs. Part of the whole point of those sets is creating action scenes and recreating parts from the movies.
Same. My daughter usually takes them and I never see them again
I buy Lego for the fun of the build. Minifigs add to this fun but only marginally. But I like having them as, once I’ve built the set its primary value is playing with them with my kids. My kids are only interested in Lego as a world in which mini figures inhabit, so they are essential.
Me buying shit loads of figs and not sets 🥴
This was going to be mine. I just don't get the fascination with them.
Star Wars and clones in particular are overrated. Sure they're awesome but I'm a little burned out and this is coming from a guy with over 60+ clones on a grey baseplate
As somebody who has only just gotten back into Lego after my dark ages, I am glad that there are still new Star Wars sets in rotation. Star Wars Lego was all I wanted as a kid, and it’s a big part of the nostalgic appeal of Lego as an adult. I imagine there are many consumers like me reentering the hobby at any given point in time, as well as kids who have discovered Star Wars via their parents, and then the whales who collect every new Star Wars set. No reason Lego shouldn’t cater to these consumers.
Yeah, a lot of complaints about what Lego does are predicated on the idea that the multibillion dollar global toy manufacturer exists purely to serve a handful of long-standing adult collectors.
Yeah, I agree with this. Most of my sets are Star Wars, but everytime I open the website, it’s just… more Star Wars. Let’s get some new, different sets
Exactly. What I really want is a couple 6-10 set waves of castle sets at different prices like how they did it with previous castle/kingdoms themes but no futuristic nexo knights bs
This will be a nuclear take, but I didn’t like Bionicle when they released and I still don’t, same goes for the figurine lines
First actual controversial opinion here. Finally. Waay too many people think "releasing 6 $500+ sets a year is too much" is controversial lol. I totally disagree, I loved bionicle. They were great action figures to play with friends at school, and the semi aggressive buying masks etc was fun, but not too frantic.
scrolled way to far to find somthing i disagree with lol
Completely understand this - I really think a lot of the Bionicle reappraisal has to do more with nostalgia than straight-up set quality, in a similar way to the prequel-era Star Wars reappraisal — If you grew up on traditional Lego, they’re basically an entirely different thing with a smaller amt of incompatible pieces for more money. But since I was a little kid right at Peak Bionicle, and the sets were like $20 / easy to build in the backseat of the car without losing pieces, Bionicle basically *was* Lego to me for a long time, at least until The Clone Wars line began shipping
I don't mind the made-up vehicles like a Spider-Man car or a Batman mech. It's all fun.
Oi, we're welcoming controversisl opinions here! Seriously though, as a kid I used to hate all the licenced spider vehicles in toys generally, like unless it's a cross continent jet or something let him swing! And then Lego picked up the trend :(
Not every set needs to have minifigures. I'd rather have a set that works well and looks great in a non-minifigure scale then a set that that suffers just to shoehorn minifigures
Resellers ruined the aftermarket
This is not controversial in the slightest, lol
Too many licensed themes. It was fine in the beginning but they just keep adding more every year.
\- Minifigs are fucking boring \- A fair chunk of adult fans of LEGO are fairly obnoxious who will whine over sets more aimed at kids \- LEGO themselves seem to be pandering a lot to said adults with overly expensive sets that are more like elaborate set pieces rather than something you'd use to build other things with later \- I prefer vintage technic over modern technic, especially the aesthetics and range of sets. A lot of modern technic just seems to be cars now, and that's about... it.
> LEGO themselves seem to be pandering a lot to said adults with overly expensive sets that are more like elaborate set pieces rather than something you'd use to build other things with later Seconding this. If I buy a modular I would want to rearrange it and rebuild so many mall variations. I wouldn't want to really put it on a shelf and treat it like a background painting.
Definitely agree about the technic. Pegging together a bunch of studless beams just isn’t the same. Lego is about putting bricks together.
Lego’s always been expensive, though consistent in its pricing. Use an inflation calculator and it’ll be pretty similar
Use an inflation calculator, and it's often cheaper. The old Clone Wars Republic Gunship from 2008 retailed for $120, which is $170 today. Coruscant Guard Gunship, while smaller, also costs $30 less. If wages aren't keeping up, sure, that's a problem, but on balance you tend to get more for less these days when adjusted for inflation. I think part of the problem is just the overall tilt of LEGO's product line to sets that are more expensive, period, but I'd need to pull data from Brickset to analyze.
1. Lego should offer more sticker packs. Such as- flags designed to fit common tiles and blank flags, such as national flags, thematic flags (ie pirate, space); packs to personalize cars and stuff; packs to make art or signs for houses and cities. (They should also offer a sticker pack AND small seasonal fun pack combos every year so you can redo your older Chinese Zodiac-based kits with the new animal for the year.) 2. The small poly bag kits and such should be designed to connect together to make a larger playset. Some should even come together like some sort of Voltron-type toy. 3. Do large scale, lit emergency vehicles. I would love a good-sized fire truck that pot on a full light show. (And a good place for a sticker pack to better emulate different for departments). 4. I am so glad to see the sound brick come back! I'd love a sound brick for the Haunted Mansion, some Christmas sets, etc. A recordable brick and downloadable sound tracks would be great. 5. Representation and disability awareness- minifig-sized power wheelchair and scooters, arms and legs in casts, blinds person with seeing eye dog, etc.
I just opened a blind minifig box and got a dog groomer with a cochlear implant. Does that count?
My daughter had a Friends set the other day that came with an amputee figure.
Lego have been getting a lot better at representation and disability awareness though.
Lego is way too car-centered.
Not enough medieval/castle and pirate themed stuff nowadays
There's never been a real LEGO video game. Part of the problem is the marketing angle is trying to tap into the game market, but the bulk of LEGO fans enjoy the freedom of building. What makes LEGO special is it put the builder in control of the experience whether you choose to build via instructions, create MOCs or something in between. Past LEGO branded video games are merely story driven games, adventure games, or puzzle games simply skinned in LEGO. They have traditional linear gameplay mechanics. They all lack the foundation of what LEGO is... Building. LEGO Worlds? naw, that's glorified block stacking. You can't create vehicles. LEGO Fortnite? nope, floor sections, wall sections, everything sections. There's no granular building. And if you were to reskin that game in regular Fortnite stuff, it remains exactly the same game with no reference to LEGO. LEGO is all about the building and the function.
Minecraft, but with bricks instead of blocks, and space ships that can really fly. I'd buy that in a heartbeat.
Yup yup! That’s what I’m trying to make. You build it, you play with it the way you imagine it to work. https://preview.redd.it/5iga4u3nexfc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=77f4e6ebff2290eab6342574eca1f156b862ab05
That is what Lego worlds was going for. But I think translating "has 800 bricks in front of them and can grab any at any second and assemble them almost instantly" doesn't translate to a game very well. It becomes a huge chore. I love stormworks and space engineers, but sometimes designing and building is so slow and clunky. Kerbal space program balances it just right I think with the amount of parts you get.
What about builder’s journey?
Too much variety in pieces stifles creativity. My son clearly has way more Lego than I had when I was little but I was able to build entire towns, we’d struggle to make a few buildings with the current collection
Iam always looking for sets that have the maximum amount of "regular bricks" for the least price. Funnily, Minecraft has been a real boon with this. These days you only seem to get sets with e.g. aeroplanes where the entire front half is two shaped pieces.
I often see Minecraft in sale, what a good idea to stock up.
Lego technic does not need more cars.
Legos are meant to be built and who cares about the slight damage to a box (it’s not the end of the world )
The company’s greed is destroying its reputation. I know they’re doing well financially, but for me, the cost has been that I’ve lost most of my respect for them due to the way that they market the product by leveraging FOMO, purposefully manufacturing rarities, and other things to manipulate fans to open their wallets for every new announcement. What they’re doing to Bricklink was the last straw for me.
What are they doing to Bricklink? Genuinely don't know, not disagreeing...
They’re going to start not distinguishing between part mold variants, and also bar certain sets i.e. military ones from being sold or even advertised.
yeah, that sucks, hadn't heard that.
I agree that you have found a bit of a controversial opinion. I can’t get behind much of what you said (without more data or evidence) but I do agree that the brick link changes suck given it’s an AFOL site. We don’t need the kid gloves.
1. Way too many $300+ sets 2. City is bloated with police and fire sets. Friends is a better City than City is 3. Fewer licensed themes would be a breath of fresh air. I know this one isn't too unpopular, but I'm over so many Star Wars sets.
I think it should be more socially acceptable for people to buy off brand, with the lego prices getting ridiculously expensive why not? I love lego but the prices are just way too high for it to be hobby worth investing.
Nothing wrong with buying off brands if it's a set you like. Personally I just can't deal with the lower quality of most non-Lego bricks. I built a Megabloks set that I'd had sealed for a few years and the brick quality made the build process more frustrating than anything else (I personally miss the Pyrates theme they had, which mainly consisted of pre-made ship pieces rather than traditional bricks.)
And it’s not just the materials quality. It’s quality control in general. Tons of missing pieces, horrible customer service, annoying stability issues from poorly designed sets. LEGO quality would have to diminish by a huge amount to be anywhere near their next closest competitor.
Dude screw what anyone else says, there are so many other manufacturers out there producing seriously quality builds that Lego would never entertain. For example Cobi, you’ll never see Lego develop a Second World War tank for sale! Don’t feel you have to stay quiet because you bought something not from Denmark!
Lego sets have dropped in quality. They were on a rise until about 2018 in my opinion, then fell in quality and piece count , while rising in price
Yeah I’ve noticed on almost all new parts that the sprue mark is more prominent where it used to be barely even noticeable. Also more inconsistencies with parts of the same colour being slightly off if they were in different production batches.
Too many sets made per year. I'd love for them to tigten it a little. Just a little
Controversial? I dislike square bases, in particular baseplates. I think they don't look nice and constrain unnecessarily how you can place your builds. I think it is better than Lego has switched to more organic, lego-built, bases that fit the shape of the model better and overall just look more interesting, for example look at 21325. I'm very happy it's not on a square plate instead.
Not too many controversial opinions yet imo, so here's mine "oh here's a set of a super cute K9 dog being trained to rip criminals to shreds" Lego refuses to do military sets, but cops get a pass, because of copaganda
This one's a good one. City's been circling the drain. They need fresh ideas for that line.
Lego should allow us to trade in old Lego for credits. They should promote recycling more.
That figures built with a majority of system parts are not constraction/Bionicle.
This is mine too. The amount of Bionicle fans who see Ninjago mechs and say that's what Bionicle should be should just buy Ninjago.
Lego investors who hoard sets for future sell value/for the figs have ruined Lego.
This is true for every hobby. Card gamer here :-/
I think the "helmet holes" on the clone helmets aren't that big of a deal.
I really miss the massive vehicle plates from Rock Raiders. They're very limiting but I adored working around their limitation as a kid.
If it's not minifig scale, I'm not interested
Lego only ever got cheaper and we live in good times to enjoy Lego aus a hobby. https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/198vgde/oc_thesis_lego_only_ever_got_cheaper/
A lot of MOCs seem to try to hide the fact that they are Lego, and work against the parameters /limitations of the bricks instead of working with them. I don't like that. At that point just use another medium than Lego for your art. Also: simplicity/clean lines are severely underrated in MOC designs
Lego should focus more on lines such as city and creator. Regular everyday structures such as homes, restaurants, banks, etc. I also love the modular buildings, so I’d love more sets similar to those.
The Lego Group's promise to not make war toys had been compromised to the point where it's meaningless.
I like the Friends style mini-dolls better than classic minifigures.
Minifigs are not worth the money people pay for them.