Too bad to see how LEGO has been going down hill for decades. When I was a kid in the late 60s, I had legos and they were just blocks; you had to use your imagination to create things. Later they came up with a few thinks like windows and roof components (maybe they always had them), but then, at some point, they just made kits where a child follows the directions and builds the thing, with no imagination or critical thinking or originality involved. What is kind of funny is that my kids, in the 1990s, would make the thing the "kit" was for, tear it apart, and then add all the pieces to a giant mess of pieces, which they would then use their imagination to build their own things. They had a lot more fun building their own things :)
Too bad to see how LEGO has been going down hill for decades. When I was a kid in the late 60s, I had legos and they were just blocks; you had to use your imagination to create things. Later they came up with a few thinks like windows and roof components (maybe they always had them), but then, at some point, they just made kits where a child follows the directions and builds the thing, with no imagination or critical thinking or originality involved. What is kind of funny is that my kids, in the 1990s, would make the thing the "kit" was for, tear it apart, and then add all the pieces to a giant mess of pieces, which they would then use their imagination to build their own things. They had a lot more fun building their own things :)
I’ve slowly been collecting the LOTR sets over the years, I’m fully ready for my children to take them all apart and make their own world! 😄