Legos: Today vs. Back in the day
Okay, I have several problems with the way that Legos (perhaps the worlds greatest toy) are presently marketed. First of all, you cannot get a basic tub of Legos anymore, oh no. The closest you can get is "Classic Lego" which is all well and good, except yuo cant just build anything. You can build a house, or a plane, or a crappy town, all color co-ordinated. What the hell is that? That sounds like having a plan before you start building besides "build something big and cool looking". Legos are supposed to end up in a gigantic pile anyways, and inspiration comes from this (don't ask me how, but it does). And this isn't just an idea from back in the day; this ideal still fits. I can still find literal hours of fun in a giant pile of unmatching-in-any-way Legos. Mine we're all in 3 big ice cream containers and the original Lego briefcase (which is, by the way, merely a piece of history now), and I have no idea on how I came into owning any of them. I'd just get home with new Legos, that would have probably been other kids older Legos that I built into something cool and was allowed to keep. I do know, however, that NONE of the Legos I ever had came with instructions. The only set that even CAME with instructions then was the castle set (which, by the way, kicked ass!), but I don't know anyone who ever built a Lego castle straight from the crappy instructions that came with it. There was always the dungeon made of red and yellow 3 blocks (the outcast of the Lego world) which could, in theory, be bombed by any number of UFO's of the random dinky that came into play. Now however, free-play, I suppose, is not promoted. The Lego models of today are just that, models. And you can't test the strength of a "model" by flinging it at a wall o ranother "model" as you could with the old, simple toys of yesteryear.
Things got too complicated for the Lego-Maniac, a hero amongst young people, who could fight other, tougher toys, by making a giant killer robot, out of simple, unmatching plastic blocks, red, blue, white, yellow, and the flat green ground.