No offense to people who like these sets but i feel like this strays from what Lego was originally supposed to be. In my view the idea of Lego was that its pieces were supposed to be somewhat generic and interchangeable between sets so that you could make many different builds with the same pieces. I don’t like the idea of builds with custom pieces that really only fit that specific build. Yeah they look better and less blocky this way but it also takes away options for creativity and improvisation. At what point does it just become 3D printing a single model out of one solid piece with no assembly even required anymore?
Also Lego is just way too expensive these days, and i feel like that also has to do with custom pieces. Not to say that Lego doesn’t obscenely overprice it’s products either way (because they can get away with it thanks to brand recognition) but if they made sets out of mainly generic mass produced pieces rather than custom ones it might be a little cheaper.
There are Creator sets just for that, they have dinosaurs and animals which are built with individual pieces with multiple different variations, like you can build 3 completely different ones, and they’re still expensive. But dinosaurs and animals in scale with minifigures just don’t look good when built with pieces, they had molded ones since the beginning and it’s only way to have it, like how are you gonna get a wolf, rabbit or bat built with pieces to scale in with minifig and look good? Have you seen these Raptors and Pteranodon in Jurassic Park III sets way back from 2001? They look ridiculous to say the least. Proper modern dinosaurs which were introduced in 2012 is what got me to start collecting them. The problem is when they get lazy with the molds and just reuse the same parts over and over again for a completely different creature, and still put higher prices, which happened with few dinosaurs in the last few years unfortunately.
Lego has always been expensive, it got insane during the last years specifically for some reason, animals and dinosaurs do bump up the price a bit, but many sets are way too expensive even without them, just look at Star Wars.
Yeah I had huge set of off-brand blocks as a kid. It had dozen block types at most, leaving everything to my creative imagination.
Not to harsh on anyone’s enjoyment of cool stuff (it’s a cool lookin dinosaur), but I agree with you. The big draw for me with legos, which also drew me in with a number of video games and their character customization, was being creative and making your own thing with the components. And the prices are just absurd now… well, in both areas. Legos are super expensive and the predatory MTX “it’s just cosmetics” is one of the most commonly justified-as-overpriced things in games. I’ve learned my lesson on that stuff with games in the past, overspending with the rationale that I’d get a lot of creativity out of it, but every time, I’d just end up quitting the game far sooner than it’d ever catch up in being worth it.
I agree, something about new lego just doesn’t seem like it’s lego anymore. I wouldn’t have known at first glance.
Something like this just has more soul
