Were you a Legos kid?
WSO, what did you grow up being entertained by? Sports? Reading? Video games? ... Legos? Cause the classic toy company is finally starting to see revenue losses since 13 years ago. Their competitors vying for children's attention? Video games and watching YouTube videos (lol). I guess those YouTube stars are collectively making more of an impact than originally thought. Now whether that's a productive thing or not for kids is an entirely separate matter...
- How popular were legos when you were a kid? Were they ever "cool?"
- I was told growing up that playing with legos was a good way of encouraging imagination in kids primarily in applicable fields like engineering. Was this a marketing scheme to sell legos?
- What's probably the best activity to ween kids into for their intellectual growth?
I lived in a 1BR apartment with my mom and sister. The concept of a babysitter was foreign to us immigrants, so I was staying home alone since age four while my sister and mom would be at work and school. I had a tiny play tent, maybe 5’X5’. It was my laboratory. I had cups, glasses, tweezers… anything I thought would aid in experiments. I would gather up anything of interest from the apartment: cleaning supplies, my mom’s and sister’s beauty products, cooking products, etc. And I would combine them in various ratios. I would heat stuff up. I would put ice cubes into stuff. I would mix, shake, and stir. So that’s what I did as a kid. And then, when we got a TV, I would make myself cereal and watch the Scooby Doo where they’re kids and the Looney Toons where they’re kids on our futon. I’d often leave school or pretend to go and come back and do this because I was not onboard with assimilating into society even a little until like age 9 and was consequently not liked by anyone and had an unpleasant experience with the educational system.
Legos have been popular for a while. The smartest thing the company has done was adapting. First was the toy, then deals like Star Wars/Super Heroes/Harry Potter, next made Lego video games, finally Lego movie(s). Were cool, still considered cool (I think?). Main problem (again, I think) once it's built imagination is needed to play.
May have been a scheme. Lego is somewhat fake engineering. Here's a manual that tells you to put this piece on that piece, "look I made something". (Kinda speaks to teaching children over the years. Lego is like "teach to the test". A somewhat modern Lego are food services like Blue Apron.)
Intellectual growth is the same it's always been, find a problem and solve it, be it coding/selling/creating a company. An example would be Buffet, when he was a kid he bought six-packs of Coke and sold them individually for a 20% mark up.
Yeah sure there were Legos that came with instructions, but then you got the whole packs of just blocks and odd pieces. Both were fun, but nothing was more fun than creating a spaceship based on random pieces all with your mind. All my best presents as a kid were Legos. I got the knight's castle and then the space station monorail one year...everything else I have received since then has been downhill.
I would agree with this my proudest achievement at ten years old was building a Lego spaceship and spaceport from the random pieces I had acquired over the years
What I don't get is Lego movies. So wait, a kid can watch Star Wars with dope CGI and shit, or a Star Wars cartoon with dope animation and shit, or a version of the Star Wars movie with shitty little lego characters running around and the same fucking story? WHY?
I think its more of a niche thing.
Take Batman, Nolan/Synder did the serious one, but Lego can do a campy/funny one. It's a different version, which worked, but how many times can they do that.
Why? Becuase that's AWESOME. I mean, literally everything is awesome!
Not gonna lie Lego Batman and The Lego Movie were nice af
Lego movie is real dope, I dunno if Chris Pratt had anything to do with it, but that guy is hilarious.
I loved legos then and still do today. They are fun and it is a blast to sit down with kids and help them build something.
I learned how to write programs on a Commodore 64 attached to the living room TV.
I was obsessed with legos for years as a kid, and most of my friends at least had some. I think it's the perfect physical toy, as you're constantly either using your creative juices to make your own constructions or learning how to follow directions/understand how a system comes together if you're making what's on the box cover
legos and playmobile were the best
The Lego studios set was where it was at.
Loved the stuff, I and my friends would always build competing starships and whatever else our imaginations could think of and play "battle".
I think it does to a point, My parents always use to throw out the manuals and say figure it out or create something. I found that did help me later in life at least in spatial awareness etc;
No Idea.
Loved Legos as a child. I never got a Levi set, just played with my brother's hand me downs. So everything I did with them involves imagination. Video games were ok when I was a teenager, but preferred being outside.
Hmm, I might be in the minority but I hated Legos growing up because they made me feel like an idiot. I could never build the models on the boxes, I lacked any intuition when building things off the cuff and I couldn't stay focused for long enough to complete anything that resembled accomplishment.
Played a lot with Lego but also Erector Set, KNEX, Playmobile, Lincoln Logs, Tinkertoys... Lego was probably the coolest but Erector Set was re-popularized by The Sandlot movie.
Played with Legos a lot as a kid.
I always remember my pet peeve with them was that there was a lack of smooth pieces so if I wanted to construct a car for example, I was always doomed to create a blocky car as opposed to one that I imagined to be better looking.
One I started to get involved with video games around 10-12 years old, I noticed that Lego wasn't as exciting anymore and I favored video games moving forward.
I remember the old/original Lego computer game "Lego Island".
Shitty game, but I loved playing it.
I love legos, because Everything is awesome!
K'NEX were better
Legos were the best. It's sad to see they are suffering losses.
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