rday1982

I'm thinking of getting some sort of compartmentalised storage system for my lego... currently it's in a few huge boxes, all mixed up together. Makes MOCs very time consuming. As I understand it, I have been in a "dark age" for the last few years... have I got that right? Anyhow, it was all in the attic, in storage. Now I'm building trains again, I wondered if y'all had any reccomendations for storage compartments. Stuff I can get at ASDA or IKEA would be helpful! :p

The LEGO group need to start pushing IMO to open a store in each of the major regions in the UK. If they had one per town, then that would be fantastic, but I'd settle for one in the SW, one in the SE, one in the centre, one in the NE and one in the NW. If LEGO was only available in LEGO stores, then they could probably afford to open one in every decent sized town or city, and stock it with the full range as well as massive PAB areas. LEGO seems to me to be failing to embrace the new world we live in. In the 90's, it was a different company with a different outlook. Now, it's changed subtly. It's no longer about making the best product, it's about margins. This strategy can only doom LEGO if they don't rectify it. When they made the best product (not simply the best in the marketplace, but a product which was incredibly hard to find fault with at all), they were a huge deal... now they're less of a big deal for kids (their main target market) and they're eliciting angry mutterings from the AFOL community. Margins have become their driving force, how they stay afloat. Of course, they soared in the 80's and 90's... but now they're content to stay afloat because that's what everybody else is doing, and it allows their top guys to make more money from fewer sales. This is really saddening. I do tend to think that LEGO is still one of the best toys I've ever had, but as I move into my "responsible" adult years, it's become harder and harder to justify buying it, due to the drop in quality and hike in price, coupled with their insistence on changing everything that I loved about it just when they seemed to have it right (I'm a train builder and a diehard 9V fan). If LEGO doesn't either improve in quality, drop in price, or start making an obvious effort to address the wants of the AFOL train building community, then I may have to find a new hobby. In which case, some lucky person will get a whole load of lego for next to nothing on eBay.