[Poll] Random Lego related questions Part II

[SpacePolice89]

Part 2 of random Lego related questions

Edited September 24, 2025 by SpacePolice89

[The Reader]

1 hour ago, SpacePolice89 said:

Part 2 of random Lego related questions

Thank you. Really nice questions. 

[Siroco]

Good questions.

7 is a big YES! 

[Mylenium]

A few random thoughts:

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7. Are there too many specialized Lego pieces nowadays?

Depends on what you consider too specialized, I guess? This is one of those weird questions that always comes up, yet nobody seems to be able to exactly explain what they mean and why certain elements seem to downright offend them.

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8. Are there too many Lego colors nowadays?

Never! :-) The merits of certain colors can certainly be debated, but I'm in the camp that can never have enough different colors at hand. I'll easily admit that this is due to my background in graphics design/ artsy stuff and wanting things to look nice and so it's also part of the truth that I'd probably not be very interested in LEGO if we were stuck with only some basic colors. It kind of goes together.

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9. Are you equally interested in Lego Technic? (compared to standard System Lego)

I used to be since I started out with Technic, but these days one can confidently say that LEGO have lost the plot and were surpassed by competitors. Technic has become a very bad version of its former glory with tons of issues.

Mylenium

[SpacePolice89]

Nice to see that you like the questions. I got the idea to include question number five because my dad who is in his sixties has suddenly become interested in Lego. He has always been very supportive of my interest in Lego but he has never before bought any sets for himself or built any MOCs as an adult. He had some basic Lego bricks in the 60s when he was a kid but stopped building when he became a teenager. He has always liked to admire the builds at Legoland and he used to help me build sets when I was a very young kid. One of my very first Lego related memories is him and me building 6886 Galactic Peace Keeper on the living room floor. A couple of weeks ago when we were at a Lego store and I was busy filling boxes at the PAB wall he walked around the store and looked at the boxes and then to my surprise he bought several Technic and Speed Champions cars as well as the Shelby Cobra and the Tuxedo Cat. He even bought some Botanical sets for my mom. Now he is busy building all those sets and he plans to buy all the F1 cars. I am happy for him that he discovered they joy of building. 

[DonQuixote]

Question 4 is a hard one. For nostalgia yes before 2000. But I really like the adults welcome sets. Galaxy Explorer remake, Lion knights castle and Black Seas Barracuda remake are such a good upgrade from the source material. I voted after 2000 for this reason. 

[MAB]

19 hours ago, Mylenium said:

Never! :-) The merits of certain colors can certainly be debated, but I'm in the camp that can never have enough different colors at hand. I'll easily admit that this is due to my background in graphics design/ artsy stuff and wanting things to look nice and so it's also part of the truth that I'd probably not be very interested in LEGO if we were stuck with only some basic colors. It kind of goes together.

For me, there are not too many colours so long as all basic parts are readily available in all colours. It is very annoying when they do some but not all (basic) parts in a particular colour. It happens especially with new colours when it might take years for sets to need those parts in those colours.

[Mylenium]

3 hours ago, MAB said:

For me, there are not too many colours so long as all basic parts are readily available in all colours. It is very annoying when they do some but not all (basic) parts in a particular colour. It happens especially with new colours when it might take years for sets to need those parts in those colours.

That is certainly a valid point, but that's just the way it is, especially nowadays where LEGO clearly are more into creating collectible models than allowing users to build their own creations. They'd rather recolor some weird part that you don't even know existed for one of their 300 Euro models than do the same for a 30 Euro Creator 3in1 package.

Mylenium

[JesseNight]

I find the answers a bit limiting this time.
Question 1 for example, I really never cared about it.
Question 3, do you mean official LEGO stores (in which case it's a no) or random stores selling LEGO (then it'd be a yes)?
Question 4, once again I don't care about the year. I judge each set individually. There's good sets both before and after.
Question 10: sunlight yes, dust no.

Edited September 25, 2025 by JesseNight

[Toastie]

9 hours ago, MAB said:

For me, there are not too many colours so long as all basic parts are readily available in all colours.

For me, there were too many colors, when they added more to red, yellow, green, blue, black, white, gray: I am color-"blind" - at a rather advanced scale. With the former palette, I never had much trouble; with what is currently available, I just installed a container for unidentified (possibly extraterrestrial) plastic pieces, or UPPs. From time to time, my daughters skim it and "click" pieces of the same color together. These go into the identified plastic pieces container as IPPs . When there are enough IPPs with a color name tag on the batch, I may use them ...

And yes this is my very personal problem, I learned to live with "it" and actually have a lot of fun with "it". Just one example: On one ASMS conference in the US, I was selected as judge for best poster presentation. When that very friendly person explained to me, where my batch of posters was, she referred to the color coding (ASMS assembles some 7000 people each year). I said, that I am so sorry, but I am color-blind, just give me the poster numbers. She replied: "Oh dear, I am so sorry, do you need a wheelchair?"

In Northern Germany we have a saying, that "you look like a cow when there is thunder to be heard". That was definitely my look. Much later, I got it and burst into laughter, leaving people around me with a look, cows show, when there is thunder ...

Here is to the colors, cows, thunder, and to feeling good! 

All the best
Thorsten

 

    

 

[SpacePolice89]

9 hours ago, JesseNight said:

Question 3, do you mean official LEGO stores (in which case it's a no) or random stores selling LEGO (then it'd be a yes)?

Official stores, I should have been more clear about that

[Autumn]

I miss the old grays but it's just nostalgia. The new bluish grays are simply superior, same with reddish brown and the new trans black. Sometimes I wonder if it really made a difference and Lego would still be as good with the old colours.

We had tons of Lego stolen by movers when my mum moved home in 2009. It ranged from the late 70s that was my older siblings' to the early 00s that belonged to me and my brother. I'm still sad about it.

I'm a bit obsessive about things aging or getting ruined so I definitely do my best to protect Lego from sunlight. Not too bothered about dust but still give it a dusting now and again with a soft brush.