Crap new Lego gets crapper
Well it had to happen, as predicted in this comic Lego has taken to releasing playsets that have no connection to The Big L other than a few arbitrarily placed bricks so that it can still pass for Lego. I knew it, that Lego toys will soon just have a few bricks plopped on them but otherwise will just be regular toys, trading on Lego's good reputation with my generation who are now parents.
Come on! That's ridiculous. Granted it's part of the Duplo range but how far removed from the original philosophy can it get? Can it get any worse?
Evil Chinese Lego previously.
Come on! That's ridiculous. Granted it's part of the Duplo range but how far removed from the original philosophy can it get? Can it get any worse?Evil Chinese Lego previously.
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What the? That is terrible, didn't really know what you ment before about the decline of Lego. That's damning proof
Does that come with a little Lego 'Fonz', on a little Lego motorbike?
Lego: Now that is a toy worth playing with. Jessaas I made more skyscrappers with the little stick/clicks bricks than there is in the whole of Mahattan. But fish on a stick/click brick, What the fuck is that all about?
Bob sez: Ooooh Robbie you corny bastard!
Parnell, welcome to my futuristic nightmare: President Bush wages illegal wars, Lego has become shit and I have athlete's foot and knob-rot
Bob in fairness you were always going to catch the knobrot what with sticking your hand up your bum and then going for a wank...not sure about the athlete's foot though.
To be honest, while this is pretty awful I think the lego-themed videogames (Lego Star Wars etc) are worse because they'll make kids who never saw the proper lego think it's just some weird animation style. Reducing further the chance of the little fuckers putting down their joypads and playing with something that requires imagination...
That said...when you think that stuff like this is being marketed to kids, it's not *that* weird when they move away from toys. (Put it this way, would you have played with a toy that had "Tampon" written on the box once you figured out there was nothing naughty about it? Would you fuck.)
you got knob rot from wanking into socks that had been on your crusty feet.I have a fungal infection "like athletes foot" on me stomach that i suspect is caused by the same reason.
new lego looks gank but in fairness theyre still making the old stuff and you can even choose which block you want.
theyre just expanding the brand into new dizzying and exciting areas.
so stop fuckin moaning.
-p
I know they're stretching their brand a bit, and that shark looks shite, but they do some really good sets these days too.
My kids play with Batman Lego, and the sets are really clever, there's some prefab bits (eg batmask, batarangs etc), but for the most part they're made of small standard lego bits.
I remember getting castle Lego when I was a kid (mid-80's), and that was pretty much premolded walls with studs on top. The horses were premolded too. Space lego wasn't much better. You'd have to go back to the 70's for pure Lego.
Lego make about half as many unique blocks as it did 5 years ago. if they didn't do all the franchise tie-ins etc. they would've gone bust by now.
And If all that isn't inflamatory enough, I like the Lego Star Wars games too.
I remember space lego being pretty class, at least the earlier stuff - there were some pre-molded bits like the cockpit windscreens and what have you, but any time you got one of the boxes you'd have detailed instructions on how to build the main thing they showed on the box lid, then about 5 or 6 other pictures of things you could make - but you had to figure those ones out yourself. Hours of fun.
I honestly don't know what the franchise ones are like because I feel a bit weird going buying lego (my nephew's not keen on it, uncultured little git that he is, and I'm too old to buy it without raising suspicion of being some kind of pervert - which, given I am a pervert, I want to avoid). I just think it's a shame that something like lego, which for me was always about giving your imagination free reign, has had to get into franchising to stay afloat.
is it just me or are our comments getting older and older? Do any of us actually live in the present? Seems a strange side effect of mass produced toys that theres so much to lament about our childhoods. Our das just have that bogie wheel they used to whip down the road and primary school buggery to feel nostalgic about.
nah ,its due to the fact that the only thing bob feels any passion or joy about are things from his childhood.
Once puberty kicked in, so did his trademark scorn, bitterness and obsessive compulsive need to wank at least 6 times a day.
-p
yes I agree TrackNack. man there's too much to talk about again today, have you considered a forum Bob?
Emmet, I have 2 boys and they both got Lego related stuff recently including Batman (which is great) and I although agree with the dangers of the 'dumbing down' of our generations favourite toys, whose main sellling point was the sheer imaginative quality, it's not all bad. The Star Wars Lego game is brilliant
Bob sez: Yep Emmet, I agree totally that even in my days of Lego there were alot of pre-fab bits, that's why in the Nothing Sacred comic the older bear sez what he sez to cover me.
Kyle, you are a pervert.I always loved the other options they gave you on the box too.
Poncho, I hear you on the knob-rot, the new loose lego which is brilliant and my beloved childhood.
T Knacker, yep my life is more or less dominated by lumps of plastic. But we are the last generation who will have nostalgia so we must embrace it. The next wave will never have to remember or hunt for a toy thanks to the net and ebay
Stewbie, yeah I've thought about a forum. There are a few subjects I'd like to discuss with like minded fucknuts in private such as Anne Doyle. I would'nt be into moderating it or whatever if it took time.And everyone would have to keep bigging me up and agreeing with me
Clamnuts, President Bush shoots people and some of them never even had athlete's foot never mind knob-rot. Wonder if Bush cunt is behind the Lego conspiracy, the cunt.
"Once puberty kicked in, so did his trademark scorn, bitterness and obsessive compulsive need to wank at least 6 times a day."
I heard 8 times a day
Haha, 6 times a day is for the weak! 25 is the figure to aim for, more times than there are hours in the day. Now that's dedication.
off the subject but i saw an add for a doll that not only has a weird animatronic face but it grows, it fuckin grows! over time it expands and gets bigger... its a doll that gets bigger, and this isn't some mad japanese toy girls here can get in 10 years this is available in smyths now. it fuckin grows Bob!
that sounds fuckin great bren, how much does it grow? from a baby into a granny.
or maybe from a baby into automus prime.
yeh
-p
Look!
http://www.lego.com/eng/create/productPage.aspx?family=designer&productNumber=4894
Crap new Lego in lovely proper dragon shokka! Couldn't resist pulling on my best pervert trousers and treating myself to the above, and it's a cool set. It's got all these green pieces, like some kind of deviant, and tiny pre-molded teeth, but it comes with two books full of instructions and ideas for different crap you can make, from dwarves to lady friends.
Downside is it's too big to hide in a brown paper bag :(
Bob sez: Yeah that looks quite good, the red dinosaur set looks fairly swanky too, loads of DECENT other combinations. So this is another Lego universe without any figures? I'm getting the NXT mindstorm for xmas, now that's a toy I don't feel ashamed buying
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