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  • #52
    Midster
    Registered Users Posts: 322 ✭✭Midster


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    There was a semi decent documentary on Netflix about Lego. They certainly made it sound like it would be hard to blame Lego for the changes. It simply was not selling to that demographic and they had to change to fit the demand.

    I heard that too, apparently they were really struggling at one point and that’s why they started making films to make there brand more popular again.

    I really don’t get why they were struggling though, I mean, what’s not to like about Lego?


  • #53
    bladespin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,370 ✭✭✭bladespin


    Midster wrote: »
    .

    I really don’t get why they were struggling though, I mean, what’s not to like about Lego?

    Loved it as a kid but tbh as a parent the pricing compared to other toys can be shocking. Though I think giving a child lego is literally investing in their future.
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  • #54
    decky1
    Registered Users Posts: 975 ✭✭✭decky1


    HEIGHTIST DISCRIMINATION, Mother of the lord Jesus What next.??????????


  • #55
    AulWan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,653 ✭✭✭AulWan


    Midster wrote: »
    I really don’t get why they were struggling though, I mean, what’s not to like about Lego?
    Have you ever stood on a piece of lego? OMG the pain.... :D


  • #56
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,493 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    AulWan wrote: »
    Have you ever stood on a piece of lego? OMG the pain.... :D
    In all my years, I've managed to never step on Lego.

    Duplo Czech hedgehog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_hedgehog

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  • #57
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Neyite wrote: »
    I agree with letting them be who they want, but it's frustrating that toys and clothes are far more gendered now than they were when I was a kid in the 80s. Even lego has 'boy' and 'girl' versions and it's lego ffs. Another example - we love watching the bake off together, but if my son wants a toy baking set for example it's almost impossible to get one that isn't predominantly pink or overly girly which he'll reject because pink = girly. (he didn't learn that from us, but from his peers at school) So then he misses out on a toy because someone in the design department decided that baking = female. And it reinforces for him that baking =female and so on...

    That pisses me off so much. I loved Lego as a child and being artistically-inclined, I loved the variety of colours of the lego pieces. I’d make patterns with the different colours. I hate the idea of little girls being given Lego in just one colour.


  • #58
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    That pisses me off so much. I loved Lego as a child and being artistically-inclined, I loved the variety of colours of the lego pieces. I’d make patterns with the different colours. I hate the idea of little girls being given Lego in just one colour.

    I dunno. They still have regular Lego. They just have additional special kits aimed for girls (princess castles etc) and special kits aimed for boys (superhero etc).


  • #59
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I dunno. They still have regular Lego. They just have additional special kits aimed for girls (princess castles etc) and special kits aimed for boys (superhero etc).

    If people buy them the themed stuff over multicoloured, then it’s a problem.


  • #60
    bladespin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,370 ✭✭✭bladespin


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    If people buy them the themed stuff over multicoloured, then it’s a problem.

    It's not, if it's what the child wants.

    Honestly I think some people are overthinking everything these days, by all means be aware of potential negative bias but forensically analyzing every little thing it too much.
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  • #61
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    bladespin wrote: »
    It's not, if it's what the child wants.

    Honestly I think some people are overthinking everything these days, by all means be aware of potential negative bias but forensically analyzing every little thing it too much.

    If they are given gifts of the stuff, often there’ll be no choosing. And like I said, I was an artsy kid who loved colours. But I’m not sure I would have missed the multicoloured bricks if I wasn’t given them but getting the multicoloured bricks was enriching. I would have missed out by not getting them. I wouldn’t have figured out how to make all those complex symmetrical patterns otherwise. That would have been a real shame to not experience.


  • #62
    Midster
    Registered Users Posts: 322 ✭✭Midster


    Lego made a bomb making the standard Lego (let’s not forget that) but what with inflation over the years, putting up there own prices to make more profit, the truth is people started to look at it as being to expensive for what it is, and to make a mass collection of Lego pieces (like many did growing up) for your kid, so he/she could make something more than just a Lego house just became to expensive for most parents.

    Let’s be honest here it became a bit of a rip off..

    Profits plummeted, customers run away and for the first time Lego were in real trouble. The didn’t want to lower there profits and make it more affordable so they decided to try and make it more popular again.

    They made all sorts of Lego movies, kids loved it and hey presto. Lego is back.

    Only in the films it clearly shows kits, for everything, Batman, etc. The most popular things around at the time to deliberately entice the new age kids pestering there parents into buying them.

    Because it was different to the norm, Lego would have had to buy now machinery, new moulds for the new plastic pieces, and to do that they had to increase the price again.

    So now even more of a rip off!!

    I can’t see the old Lego lasting much longer, to many kids are buying the kits now, why would they continue selling it... there’s nothing particularly special about it either as it sits in a see through tub on the shelf, so why why would parents buy it.

    Soon as the kits become unpopular, Lego itself will probably die out.


  • #63
    shutup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 507 ✭✭✭shutup


    Victor, have you and your husband come up with any solutions for phrases to use with your Theyby?


  • #64
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,493 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    shutup wrote: »
    Theyby?
    This looks garbled. :)


  • #65
    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,510 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    Midster wrote: »
    Lego itself will probably die out.

    I wouldn't recommend holding your breath on that one,
    Lego started in 1932, it has a long life ahead of it yet

    Unlike a one trick pony toy like say "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" legao can very easily change with the times, coming up with new plans and designs.
    Going back to the older kits may even happen as well as people see the real value in encouraging imagination more


  • #66
    Midster
    Registered Users Posts: 322 ✭✭Midster


    Cabaal wrote: »
    I wouldn't recommend holding your breath on that one,
    Lego started in 1932, it has a long life ahead of it yet

    They said the same about Woolworths and gamleys


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  • #67
    mirrorwall14
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,751 ✭✭✭mirrorwall14


    The only issue I see lego having is that it never dies lol. I have a massive box of lego from my youth. My four year old has knocked a years use out of it already and is just adding the new kits to it. And to be fair, (as a girl), I had bucket loads of the castle lego from the 80s like this so I didn't have all multicoloured bricks. What I do like today is the ability to buy base plates. Not sure if that was a thing when I was a kid but I know I never had enough lol


  • #68
    Midster
    Registered Users Posts: 322 ✭✭Midster


    mirrorwall14 wrote: »
    The only issue I see lego having is that it never dies lol. I have a massive box of lego from my youth. My four year old has knocked a years use out of it already and is just adding the new kits to it. And to be fair, (as a girl), I had bucket loads of the castle lego from the 80s like this so I didn't have all multicoloured bricks. What I do like today is the ability to buy base plates. Not sure if that was a thing when I was a kid but I know I never had enough lol

    That’s the thing about Lego, you can never have enough base plates. Lol


  • #69
    antix80
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,419 ✭✭✭antix80


    Victor wrote: »
    Yes, I appreciate she is only 3, but perhaps people should use more thoughtful and less stereotypical phrases.

    I hope you didn't assume the child's gender. That's cissexist normativism, and you won't win "woke parent of the year award" thinking like that.


  • #70
    shutup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 507 ✭✭✭shutup


    Imagine being the poor teacher (obviously in Educate Together) of Dictor and his husbands non binary child. Every week they’d be in complaining that somebody should be fired for saying postman or a child should be sent to inclusion/diversity training for asking if a girl would like to play with a doll.


  • #71
    Accepting Cookies
    Closed Accounts Posts: 65 ✭✭Accepting Cookies


    shutup wrote: »
    Imagine being the poor teacher (obviously in Educate Together) of Dictor and his husbands non binary child. Every week they’d be in complaining that somebody should be fired for saying postman or a child should be sent to inclusion/diversity training for asking if a girl would like to play with a doll.

    These kinds of comments are so OTT. While I didn't understand how the OP posted the topic that was made, there's no need to make nasty commentary. I don't know anything about this OP is he gay and does he have a non-binary child? Why should that even matter and why are you using those particular examples. This is the 3rd time this week alone that on here and Facebook combined I have seen grown adults make sneery comments about non binary people, specifically children. We can maturely talk about gender and gender roles, without the OTT implications of what someone MIGHT do IF they were gay and IF they had a non binary child.
    Gender identities aren't a new thing. Society is only giving language to identities that have always existed under judgement and shame. Much like this particular comment. Perhaps one should be better informed than to only offer dolls to girl children in an educational setting.


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  • #72
    The chan chan man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 824 ✭✭✭The chan chan man


    LOL! Classic


  • #73
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    shutup wrote: »
    Imagine being the poor teacher (obviously in Educate Together) of Dictor and his husbands non binary child. Every week they’d be in complaining that somebody should be fired for saying postman or a child should be sent to inclusion/diversity training for asking if a girl would like to play with a doll.

    Mod:

    Abuse won't be tolerated here.
    antix80 wrote: »
    I hope you didn't assume the child's gender. That's cissexist normativism, and you won't win "woke parent of the year award" thinking like that.

    Please refrain from clipping comments by other posters, resulting in a loss of context by them with the sole intention of having a snipe at them.


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