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Not for me, LEGO is both tactile and garners focus and engagement that a film does not. Plus, I have been forever terrible at video games that aren't Pokémon... So chilling in Kalos or Sinnoh has been helpful, but not in the way I find with my building a set it MOC.

"Okay, the southeast and northeast fields are harder to figure out. But the others can't have the carcass. Anyone want to choose the first place to try?"

This might be the case for you, but I am still actively building my own creations, using new and old parts and colours. I populate scenes with figures and keep adding new parts to build fun and unique characters. Sure, some things I build and keep. I have had the Agents Mobile Command Center since release year, all constructed and admired (it Is the pinnacle of LEGO truck design). My MOC sphinx and yellow castle are still built because I am proud of them. I have a few small MOCs built and kept for over ten years. This means I have a need for more parts to build with. Not to mention new colours and elements to use. So nope. While it might be consumerist, it is still useful to me. For practicality: Mindfulness and mental health therapy. Very good way to de-stress. Especially this last year. My job is healthcare adjacent so we had lots of important work and not many people the last two years. We lost my grandfather, so that was a difficult time. I was able to keep level and well mentally through my LEGO hobby.

Yep! That last little S just sounds silly to my dialect, locally no one at all says it, I can't vouch for the rest of the UK, as we cant even agree on what to call a bread roll. The contents of the box could be Lego Bricks, or Minifigures, or Technic. But the product is Lego, the contents will never be Legos. (I shudder to type it ). Maybe it is the fact that there were few to no competitor brands for a long time, as my parents generation had Lego, what you could call their Babysitters (two lovely "aunties" I have, who were about ten to 13 years older than them) had Lego. The first easily available competitor brands were of very low quality or a very different thing (Betta Builder was very different in aspects. Best Lock was noticeably poor quality with weird figures) so people don't lump all bricks into one "Legos" but want a quality product.

Personally, I would ask the staff where the Lego is kept. Maybe I would ask for Building Toys (As Meccano, K'nex etc are usually grouped with the LEGO and other brick brands) but even in stores that do not stock LEGO but have their own similar thing (Wilko, a sort of Hardware/Everything store in the UK, has its own brand of bricks) will say that they don't have Lego, but they do have "xx Bricks that fit with LEGO." I've never encountered anyone really calling building bricks "Legos" or even bricks not branded with LEGO as Lego. This may be my own peculiar part of the world

It sounds weird to UK ears. Legos just sounds, well, not to mince words. Stupid. Like saying Sheeps.

Aysu stood up, careful to not be too noticeable to patrols (Pink hair on snow could show up...) She looked across the flats, hoping to spot a clue.

@Darkdragon have you admin clever cloggs figured out the problem?

Some people collect misshapes and misprints, but otherwise you just have a neat weird part.

I love this one right now. The "look" from the Stormtrooper just makes it.

"Want me to take a look at for anything interesting out here?" Aysu tapped her far-sight goggles.

So I recently dug these out and put them in a thread: So, what other LEGO adverts do you enjoy? What did you think was pretty cool? Any other cool promotional shorts to share?

You don't have to get started on this again. Please. Move past it, ignore it, but please stop beating this dead horse. We get it, your opinion is not positive in regards to these things. Dave also had "bumpers" where certain entertainment blocks were sponsored by LEGO. Those were fun ads too

The Shoe was a Cross Promotion with Adidas and "Sneakerheads" were the target market. Those guys will drop multiple 100s of $ and £ on a shoe that then sits in a box in a special case in their collection. I think a buildable shoe for them to add to this collection is a clever move.

The other things to remember about the 18+ things, LEGO Is cashing in on the trend of Adults indulging in their pop-cultural favourites across the board. Pop! Vinyl etc sell well because the handful of dedicated collectors who want them all are not the main target. They cover every possible thing you can imagine so that someone, anyone, will buy one if they think it is neat object. Here in the UK, they sell at £10 or a little less, so an impulse buy for the type of person who would want it and also a decent price for something to Gift to someone who is a fan of the theme. A forty-something woman wouldn't normally(per society norms) collect abstract caricatures of characters from TV. But she might want to get a Rachel Green Pop figure for her desk because she loves Friends. The same principal is there for the LEGO set, lots of people had LEGO as children, so it is a nostalgia hit for them. Then they find a "premium" looking set that is based on something they enjoy then they could treat themselves to it. Also, here in the UK at least, LEGO is being marketed as a nice de-stressing activity Also, as anyone else mentioned: These days, Creator is the only theme that reminds us we can build LEGO sets how we want to. Go look for any of the Theme discussion (Especially in City) and you will find people demanding sets to fit their Collection requirements without a word for creating their own to fill the gap!

I have no hope! I list my sets using brickset and I use bricklink to find out where parts came from. That gives me a clue if I should have the part I need in a MOC. Loose parts and parts in MOCs are impossible to track, except through memory.

That word, I don't think it means what you think it means...

"I think I prefer breaking down spacecraft." Aysu muttered. "Yes, the flats sound like a good place to go next."

"I will take a look. There should be something salvageable."

""Oh hey, yeah, armour would be great from that hide, it was near impossible to shoot through!"

"Well," Aysu dropped to the snow, letting the tension that had held her on target slip away. "That was a battle. Does anyone need any of these potions?"

The Dune (2021) Soundtrack. It is immense and I love it.

While the waist is pinched in a little the print and colour a good matches

"Rats, that was with an assist too!" Aysu glared at the 'gator. "Take two better hit home. This thing is near its end and Ronin is too!" She fires on their foe again,

Two of my brothers stopped at around fourteen, Playstation/Gameboy and Skateboarding/Sports took over as their main interests and gift requests. I know the both of them still like LEGO keychains (Got my brother and his wife His'n'Hers Han and Leia keychains). My sister's never were interested as much in LEGO, the younger of the two liked mosaics back before but turned to being art obsessed, so all her gifts were materials etc for her art projects. My other sister got back into LEGO between her husband and the introduction of Minidolls. My brother in law is a different case altogether; in his teens when most leave "toys" behind (or are peer-pressured into it) he was seriously ill and in hospital or stuck at home. So he carried on with LEGO as an escape and his Star Wars obsession meant family would get him all kinds of Star Wars sets (even now). My younger two brothers are different again. One of them is 13 years younger than me. I have never stopped building, buying and creating with LEGO, so when he was young there was my example and as he got older he and his friends still enjoyed the complex builds of the UCS sets and the larger Ninjago offerings (The three of them initially made friends because they all liked Ninjago when they were 9). With an genuine bona-fide adult (me) travelling abroad for LEGO events and cheerfully buying myself "toys" there was not even any family pressure to give up these toys (Our Dad was funny about it with me until my third trip with other AFOLs but no problems since). The youngest? He was never into LEGO. Either it was his brother being rather possessive over the "kids LEGO" (AKA, not my collection) are a genuine personal preference for other things (He is an excellent chef for a 19yo now). So, that is my family, what can only be described as a sociologists dream sample!