globalbrick

This is what I meant: what gratification do you get out of spending 1000s of dollars and then not having time to build the sets. Building y LEGO city took years and the excitement was from doing lots with a small number of sets. If you can buy the whole store in one go, there is no excitement anymore. On display pieces: in the past, sets were part of a theme. You had an amazing castle, or an amazing pirate ship but they fit a theme. Nowadays, I feel LEGO is releasing lifestyle objects like the typewriter. It's just my opinion but I feel that that kind of sets take away some of the experience that is LEGO: build and play.

I am what you can call a relaxed AFOLer. I lie to look, sometimes buy a set just for fun but not really going 100% for it. While people have been collecting for ages, I am seeing a trjnd on Instagram and Youtube where people are going to the LEGO store and buy the expensive sets as if they are bottles of water. I get that people are collecting LEGO but most of these people are more like hoarders. What is the point of spending so much money on instant gratification. Waiting for a new set and looking n the catalogue used to be part of the excitement of getting a new set, now it's just buy everything right away. The oether thing that bothers me about current LEGO is that there are more and more showpiece sets: sets you build and then put on display. What is the fun with that? Lego is meant to be built, taken apart, and then built again in a new form. Combined with the high prices, I wonder if LEGO is not losing its way as a creative toy. Sets like the Titanic, if I would buy it, I would be reluctant to destroy it and build something else. Anyway, it's a bit of a frustration I have with current LEGO, I fear it is drifting a bit away from its core.