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It's about time parents stood up to their kids and stopped buying them Lego models. Why? Simple. Lego is supposed to be made, dismantled, made again into something else, dismantled, made into something new, dismantled, remade with refinements and of course dismantled again... you get the idea! Additionally, Lego is designed to be stored in its dismantled state in old ice-cream tubs.
Lego - Star Wars Republic Fighter Tanks
Pity the household where table and bookcase surfaces are bedecked with Star Wars Republic Fighter Tanks, Indiana Jones and his Lost Tomb, and Spongebob Squarepants Good Neighbours at Bikini Bottom. Surely the DVD player and TV screen are the natural home for those sorts of toys (much more compact for a start). The one positive in all this is the excuse I have to refrain from dusting, lest the delicate models be disturbed and stray pieces be displaced into the path of the vacum cleaner.
Woe betide any adult who dares to suggest that models are disassembled and fashioned into something original. No, Lego play is now about completing sets and placing trophies on display, as if to demonstrate the instruction following abilities of the maker. What ever happened to using good old fashioned imagination?
It's well known that, weight for weight, Lego is more expensive than gold; Even so, the Government should combat this nonsense by applying high rates of tax to Lego kits, while reducing the VAT on straightforward Lego buckets. In fact I'm confident the Secretary of State for Education and the Chancellor of the Exchequer will implement this measure. They look like the sort of people who would have played with proper Lego in their youth! Look out for the e-petition at number10.gov.uk.
By: RikGreen
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I'd love to find out exactly how these changes came about, but this is very difficult without a knowledge of Danish.
we bought the children the harry potter train and bus, but they got broken by visiting children and bits got lost, and they wont be seen as models again, we also have a six foot long lego street on one of our windowsills, built on the edge of "road bases" each house alternating in colour and hight, measuring eight studs by eight studs and aproximatly eighteen inches high, absolutley rammed with doors and windows, it would cost a fortune to go out and buy that lot new, thats if you could, but thanks to carboot sales you can pick boxes of lego up quite cheaply, taking out the bits that you need, like bases, doors, windows, bricks and tiles, not forgetting the veichle pieces, and usualy get your initial outlay back on the remainder next time you do a carboot yourself, with these bits the children can use their own imagination and build decent models without the need for any instructions, its a good toy that has stood the test of time, as a kid I had the short lived betamax lego,(betta bilda by airfix) which just consisted of house building pieces,but I was happy with that in them days. forty years later, my children love lego.
In my veiw a valid gripe, away from the forthcoming depression, where we may resort to playing lego with the children by candlelight when the lights go out and the playstations are off.
Buy Meccano instead.
Get the kids to join a real youth club - a street gang - where they'll learn a useful trade like mugging little old ladies in the street, drug trafficking and other import/export trades.
Timelady
Visit any of the numerous Lego exhibitions (once things like shows return), there are plenty of very imaginative and innovative models, which children of all ages making them.