Lego

“Lego is still wildly successful because they found ways to connect with younger generations”

“My boys (4 and 7) play with Lego at least an hour a day and so do a lot of their friends.”

“a pre-determined object that is decomposed into LEGO style blocks, and must be assembled in only one form”

“it's like comparing Lego (before they began their anti-consumer bs) to cheap Chinese toys”

“it's more or less defeating the whole purpose of Lego which is that you can build whatever your imagination comes up with”

“they've used that income stream to still consistently put out a lot of high quality first party sets”

“their insane fixation on brands and collectibles rather than making children discover the world”

“Lego has done a pretty incredible job of increasing the utility and decreasing the single-use aspect of many pieces.”

“The injection molding of a Lego brick is spooky-consistent and very precise.”

“lego is expensive, but only if it is new and if you insist on expensive presents every year. it also lasts a lifetime.”

“Lego is quite impressive, but most of their parts are static and not moving at 500-2000rpm”

“I buy lego to have access to more pieces so that when I dump them all on the floor and build whatever comes to mind”

“There are enough sets for everyone to find something interesting if they are into Lego.”

“the Lego versions have so much more thought put into the actual build process and the stability and functionality of the finished product”

“These days Lego sell model construction kits - most are constructed once and then the owner plays with the model.”

“To make a bunch of plastic toy bricks a multi billion company you have to produce very special ones.”

“Lego patented the tubes inside, which gave it superior clutch power.”

“The risk Lego faces is that they don't actually have a quality moat any longer.”

“Good thing with analogue toys like legos is you know your kid is playing with legos that is wiring X brain cells for Y skills”

“I would be much more frustrated if they became cheaper and reduced the quality of the product.”

“The reason this is impressive has less to do with the tolerances themselves and more to do with backward compatibility across decades at scale.”

“fit together so perfectly that they wouldn't come off even if you lifted them”

“it is a little annoying to see LEGO appear to turn into something that it wasn't”

“introduced all these many many "single-use-case-bricks" for more and more sets”

“Backwards compatibility is something lost today. Incredible they've kept it this long.”

“Lego is still amazing and you don't have to buy expensive sets for your kids to enjoy them.”

“They have amazing brand recognition, and beyond the toys, they have successful video games and movies.”

“still fit perfectly with LEGO I'm buying for my kids 30 years later”

“some of the old bricks didn't snap at all anymore to my newer bricks”

“I think Lego has a huge incentive to promote this idea that they are high quality to justify the enormous price of decades old technology.”

“My son has a enormous bin full of lego that he just free builds with.”

“These days Legos are more akin to model kits. Except they dumb down everything that not even a monkey can screw up assembling whatever is being built.”

“joined a second hand Lego Whatsapp group a while ago and that's made it far more affordable”

“LEGO is now so expensive that I wouldn't buy it due to that outrageous prices alone”

“there are some small changes to available pieces, that result in large changes to play style”

“I've never seen another toy equal Lego in replayability or in the vast array of ways it can be used.”

“Lego moved from mostly bricks to custom single use shapes for every kit the joy of combining them died”

“LEGO has decided that they want to make mostly high-margin co-branded sets”

“We have tons of Lego too but these were far better play-value for the dollar.”

“there are now mold defects after they started adding recycled plastic”