Go Lego!

[JimGinPA]

[Sinistrous]

1. Except that today, 99% of LEGOs are in those overpriced "kits"

instead of the big general purpose boxes that had LEGOs you could make into anything you wanted.

[JimGinPA]

2. Sorry Lego's Business Model Offends You...

It really wasn't the point of the post though.

[Sinistrous]

4. If you care to read my response,

you may notice that I was addressing the diminished creativity encouraged by the one-toy-and-out kits sold by Lego for the past several years. If you care to re-read your OP, you may notice that your lead was praising the creativity enabled by the Lego sets sold in the 1970s.

"Business Model" What an important sounding term.

[JimGinPA]

8. Actually, I Read Your Post Thoroughly...

Obtuse as it was.

Lego still sells their creative sets in several sizes. Apparently the demand for the kits is greater, thus their business model. Give 'em what they want.

While I understand the point you tried to make I just disagree. I don't know, maybe I spend more time around kids than you, but I've found after the first couple of times putting the sets together their imagination lets them become very creative with their Legos. Pieces are misplaced and sets get mixed together but they still have fun playing with them. That doesn't mean they won't want the next 'Batman Lego Movie" or 'Frozen Ice Castle' set. (Those just happen to be the last ones I bought)

But that really wasn't the point either. The reason I posted this was I found it compelling that a company was forward-thinking enough in the 70's to recommend the freedom from societal gender norms in their "creative" play.

[FSogol]

14. Those overpriced kits got turned into much cooler stuff, the same way we kids played with our legos

back in the day. Providing a starting point for the narrative doesn't remove the creativity.

[smirkymonkey]

3. My nieces and nephews love Legos.

Especially one nephew. He is a genius at putting together Lego kits. He can do it without even looking at the directions in record time. I think the kid has a future as an engineer of some kind.

Of course, his parents get sick of stepping on the pieces all over the house, but they still encourage his creativity.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. ...

[beam me up scottie]

7. ...

[smirkymonkey]

12. LOL!

Too funny!

[smirkymonkey]

13. ...

Those little bastards HURT!

[progressoid]

6. That sounds like a bunch of European liberal clap trap!

And I love it.

[beam me up scottie]

9. This was really forward thinking for the time.

I remember being given dolls and tea sets as a child and even though I didn't understand why, I always felt like I was being insulted. My parents eventually learned to let me play with 'boys' toys and role play as a male if that's what I wanted. There really weren't many strong independent female leads to look up to so I preferred to be Tarzan instead of Jane and Mr. Spock instead of Lt. Uhuru. I played cowboys and cars with my brothers and neither of my parents thought anything of it. But they were liberal pinko commies, most kids weren't as fortunate as I was.

[JimGinPA]

10. When My Older Boy Was Four...

I took him to get his Halloween costume. He wanted a Power Ranger costume (they were big then). I let him pick the one he wanted & he chose the yellow one. I didn't know much about them but when I got home my wife (who did know a little about them) kind of freaked out on me telling me the yellow one was a girl. I said "so what, he wanted the yellow one". And that's what he wore trick or treating. He didn't care that it was supposed to be a girl. And neither did anyone else.

[beam me up scottie]

11. Awesome.

Kids have enough crap to deal with outside the home, parents shouldn't make them feel guilty or ashamed for their choice of costumes or toys.