Anthropunk (Dr. SA Applin)I'm about halfway through making the #LEGO Christmas wreath and i'm not loving it at all. It's weird. Some builds are really fun, and I loved the wildflowers, but this is so tedious and repetitive over and over. I suspect while there is an alternate tabletop decoration variation, I will probably never build this again once I'm done. VIsually, it's great. Labor is a strong "not fun" ranking from me.
Joanna Bryson, blathering@anthropunk Interesting. LEGO has been trying to figure out for a while why kids stopped really playing with LEGO like we did in the 60s and 70s, and just building it like a model than leaving it on the shelf. I guess it's some kind of capitalism fail that in making the package look more appealing, they made the toy less fun. Would you have bought the same number of bricks for the same price without the meticulous instructions?
Tristan Henderson@j2bryson @anthropunk I don't know why LEGO would be surprised by this as it seems deliberate on their part. As a parent it is almost impossible to find generic boxes of LEGO bricks in toy shops - everything is Harry Potter/Marvel/Minecraft/cars etc.
@tnhh @anthropunk For a while, specifically LEGO stores did have bins of bricks you could scoop out of like a candy store. Has that ended?