Let's reminisce about Lego

[Brother Laz]

@Mith: I'd say Lego, except the very new sets, is one of the most money-efficient gifts for a kid. They can build new things out of them depending on their mood [Jurassic Park 4 out? Turn that spaceship into a dinosaur robot...], and new boxes combine with old boxes for more than the sum of their parts. [you don't just get the garage set, you also get the pillar bricks you need for your three-story starbase...]

With things like Transformers, the kid can't quite play with all of them at once, so they get bored and need more of them to keep their interest. And more. Many of them end up collecting dust. There is also the risk of buying garbage. I don't recall the name, the transformers that couldn't actually transform but had vehicles that could transform into war bases and stuff. Huge waste of money. Or that giant green fighter plane. Costs a fortune, and in the end you only get one robot.

If I had my childhood back, I'd have saved my parents the money for those and spent it on those Lego sets I always wanted but never got until it was too late. Most of the first Blacktron series, for example.

No single Transformer managed to have a significant impact on my early childhood, but a large number of Lego and Technic sets did.
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