Saagar Jha

LEGO “for adults” is just so depressing to me because they’re always like several hundred dollars and horrible looking renditions of, like, mega Pikachu with super custom parts that you build once and never touch again
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Mutesplash

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar Real "LEGO for adults" is on display at things like Brickworld and even smaller local events

Saagar Jha

(replying to Mutesplash)
@Mutesplash LEGO for adults who are still children at heart

Mindaugas Rudokas

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar @Mutesplash
A set that’s something closer to this:


U+002C

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar lego for adults should be a big box of generic colour mismatched pieces and just building random shit that comes to mind


Greg Parker

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar As a more charitable view, consider it as one end of a time and skill spectrum: "LEGO for adults" — traditional plastic model kit — scratchbuilt modeling and art.


Helge Heß

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar I think I like Lego for adults because I rarely had real Lego as a child.
And I still like looking at my Helicarrier, ISS or Ghostbusters headquarter 🤷‍♀️


USB Type-Steve :verified:

(replying to Saagar Jha)

@saagar Lego is dumb when the thing they sell is a singular solution. To me Lego is supposed to be a bunch of random bricks where you build random things out of it. It's not meant to be a prepackaged "build the Millennium Falcon and nothing else" kind of thing.

(Side note I always thought K'Nex was better)

Saagar Jha

(replying to Saagar Jha)
I can’t imagine a more on-the-nose way to strip the joy from childhood than this. Maybe if you just spend some more money on Nostalgia you desperately want to cling to you will forget that taxes are due next week and your manager wants the quarterly report revised again

Saagar Jha

(replying to Saagar Jha)
It’s patently artificial but you have lost the ability to tell, or maybe you can still feel that there’s something wrong about it, but you have scarcely the time and energy to care anymore