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Some random thoughts on Legos.

Today was the birthday of two of the kids who I improvise of like brothers. (They’re twins) To be sure, I got them a birthday present. I initially couldn’t contrive of what to get them, because I didn’t want to get anything too big, because I didn’t call for it to overshadow anything that their family gave them, and I also didn’t have much well off. I remembered that they loved LEGOs. I at bottom loved Legos when I was younger, and I believe if they asked me, I would play with them or help them found something. I had (what I thought was) a lot of them, being two large Rubbermaid under-bed storage boxes, together with a shoebox or two of either special models, or good stuff that I used frequently and didn’t be deficient in to drag out the large box for, or just attributes that wouldn’t fit. These kids have me clobber by a long shot. They could probably physique a scale model of anything in the world, and have shown me some melodic impressive things that they’ve built.

I had some extremely time in town before band actually, so I swung into the Target to go to the LEGO isle. Upon reaching it, I discovered two things that were distinct from my younger days playing with them.

One: LEGOs are costly! When I was little, (maybe 5) I keep in mind how excited I was because my mom was buying me a lego roadster car. I have in mind it cost maybe $2 or $3 dollars. The best part of the sets I remember were about $5-$30 possibly $50-60 for something really awesome. Most of the sets I found in the set aside this time were $15+, mostly $20 up to about $80. That leads to the aide-de-camp point,

Two: Legos are way cooler than they were when I was short. They had your basic sets, which were a bucket or box of lots of numerous multi-colored pieces, and a ticket that told you how to make lots of various things, like pickup trucks and airplanes and press like that. It was all easy to put together, and pretty generic and principal. In the more expensive sets they had fairly generic Infringe, Castle, and Town sets. Later they introduced an underwater themed submarine set and a uproarious west set. It was still all pretty generic. Now it seems that one of the big things with legos is Licensed Products, like the Top banana Wars 4ft-long Star Destroyer set with like 3,104 pieces, or the Harry Potter Hogwarts Wonderful-Magical Uber-Castle, or The Indiana Jones Sanctuary of Horrific-Evil-Too-Great-To-Put-In-Boy’s-playset or whatever. Looking at the website, I see that they have also licensed matter from Batman, SpeedRacer, Ferrarri, and even Sponge-Bob. Striking into more generic stuff, the have way advanced Castle, New Zealand urban area, Aqua-Raider, even Mars Aim. This stuff is way beyond what it was like when I was little. One of their other brothers has this Dwarven Mining Complex set, perfect with Mini-Dwarf figures, Trolls, Goblins, and silverware minerals that suspiciously remind me of Mithril. (Can anyone say Christ of the Rings, Mine of Moria?) Another thing I noticed is specialty pieces. In old-manner legos, you pretty much built everything yourself. Only about the only thing that wasn’t some subgenus of brick were the accessories that the figurines held. Now, they have lots of these pieces that fairly much simplify construction into several larger pieces. Some sets look like spot play-mobil sets.