Did You Love Lego As A Child?

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I did!

Once again, I am the weird autistic who had pretty much zero interest in Legos. Somehow I manage to be obviously autistic without fitting most of the stereotypes

I did not have legos, I had K'NEX, which had rods and connectors, and I loved then they were my favorite toy as a kid, I made roller coasters, ferris wheels, etc, and used them in a science project about pulley systems. I feel like buying a kit so I can play with them as an adult.

Feels like everyone else grew up with legos though, no one has heard of K'NEX. There is no K'NEX Batman or Star Wars. It's like this big piece of mass nostalgia I can't relate to.

I have played with Knex as an adult as my youngest brother had some.

Nah.

I didn't like how they felt. As a kid I preferred my set of magnets (Magnetix). You could build things out of them, mainly cylindrical shapes. I used to make little aliens out of them. Sometimes I was told off for being too violent with my stories with these aliens. I had some plot lines where they went to war with one another. The flexibility worked well for the type of play I engaged in, it made it easier to build and move their joints about.

There was another toy I used to play with which was a set of smooth wooden building blocks. I preferred them over legos.

I might've like to have one as a child, but I never had one.
Legos specifically, I highly doubt I'd ever own any.


Barely had any toys that I actually want to play with growing up.
Most of my toys before I ever had a handheld game are all improvised, self-made or I brought it by saving my allowance.

Because the toys brought by my parents usually suck.
They probably rarely ever listened -- never, ever listened that I don't want dolls and stuff toys.

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My NT son loves LEGO (he plays with them, and I sort them). As a child, I did puzzles and mazes. Hundreds. My ASD daughter loves bugs and video games.

I love lego as an adult.

Yesterday a friend happened to mention there was a job reassembling LEGOs for resell and we both were like: sign us up!! !! (we're both women in our late 40s)

Lego prices are silly today. They seem to be two or three times.... Maybe more what they would be expected if one takes inflation into account compared to how much they used to cost when I was young.

Model railways are like that as well. It does make one think that the manufacturers are loosing touch with their customers budgets, though I realize that markets have changed.
I do see that in the past that the manufacturers seemed to have more sensible approaches to ensure they don't overstretch themselves and take out loans that they can't afford to expnd the range which will inflate prices beyond the customers budgets. They were more careful also to make things with servicability in mind as customers used to make decisions based on future parts availability.

Hells yeah.

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I used to get really frustrated when I tried to build anything with Lego because it wouldn't turn out like it looked on the package because I missed a brick or two, and then I'd take it apart and start over. Mostly I'd just build brick walls and stairs. But I did like the little Lego people. I once had a play set as a kid that came with two Lego people who were not humans but a cartoon-like cat and a mouse. It came with a storybook on how the cat and mouse, who are friends, built a house together to live in, but I could never build the house right. I loved the characters and played with them happily without the Legos until I lost them somewhere, which is often the case with small toy figures. I wish Lego would bring those anthropomorphic animal characters out again, but the idiots will say "Oh they're furries!"