So true! In the last few years I had real problems to enjoy Christmas, but last Christmas I bought myself an old 2002 Harry Potter Set (Chamber of Secrets) and not only was I excited again but also felt the same magic again that I felt when putting together the 2001 Hogwarts Castle as a kid. Lego really helps me reliving my childhood memorie and, in some way, make new ones.
I am 57 yrs old and got my first set, LEGO Police car set 611 in 1973. When my favorite toy and my favorite movie joined, I was all in. Now my collection is out of control with Star Wars (almost all of them since the beginning), Iron Man, Bat Mobiles, NASA, the bigger cars, and the Botanicals. Building a new set is my Happy Place. My granddaughter knows the difference between Papa's LEGOs and her LEGOs. She helps me build a ship and we fly it around the house then put it on a shelf, then we build her princess castle or Spiderman set and fight the villains.
I am 55 and mine is getting out of control too LOL. Just built the new Viking Vilalge set this past weekend. Looking forward to the LoTR Black Tower coming out later this year. Rivendell last year was an amazing build.
Personally I think the reason I like Lego is because I can finally get the sets I wished I could afford as a kid ( plus I could have a cool display piece )
I have Been into Lego since I was a kid. All yhe way till 19. I took a huge hiatus from them through my 20s, getting myself established. But now I'm in my 30s and enjoying all the sets. They are putting out now for adults. I love the engineering and design portion of it. And then just collecting is fun for me as well. I've gotten to the point where I work for what I have. If somebody doesn't like lego, or me or what I do then too bad.
nearly 23 myself and i made the "terrific" decision to start rebuilding nearly 20 years worth of sets :I its taken 3 weeks and ive only finished aqua raiders, bionicle, exoforce and power miners lol. the sets and containers i still need to do weigh in at 125kg to go.
Iv always loved star wars, about 3 months ago i decided to watch the Clone wars, it just made me love the whole universe even more. I absolutely love Captain Rex and i wouldnt shut up about the show to my girlfriend so for Christmas she bought me the Lego Captain Rex helmet and Luke red five. I am now obsessed with star wars lego lol i just turned 34 and i feel abit "embarrassed" about getting them in local shops. But i love putting them together and its so relaxing building them 😊
Dude, I’m not an adult but that’s literally what I’ve been saying there are a lot of adult UA-camrs out there that are not being entirely honest with their opinions on Lego and honestly I like to collect Lego and play with Lego because why not
this is especially hard as a teenager because people think that you “haven’t matured yet” and i get bullied at my high school because i started the LEGO club there and people judge me for not “growing out” of LEGO.
You're the audience I really wanted this video to reach! Don't listen to those people. You can totally mature while still enjoying a fun hobby. So cool of you to start a club!
As someone who’s graduated college & is now working for one of the biggest & most professional companies in the world. None of what those people say matter brother. Enjoy it, I got back into Lego & regret never being able to get into Lego when I was younger. Keep doing you man, be yourself.
As an Adult it's an escape but it's also a way to help me stay away from drinking, and for me to help me connect with my niece and nephew. Seriously the time I've spent building Legos has helped me stay away from alcohol and helped keep me focused. It also helps me keep a budget, if theres a set I like, I look at the price then do the math and if I can afford it yeah I get it if it's not in the budget than I try again next month
I'll be honest, I'm 25 and on the Autism Spectrum. A lot of Spectrum people, myself included, keep their childhood hobbies and just expand on them instead of "growing outta them." Dinosaurs became Paleontology, Lego just... kept being Lego. I'm just still Dani. Dani likes Lego. Simple as that. ♡
W comment. Even neurotypical individuals shouldn’t be ashamed about expending their childhood passions into their adulthood. Just because ours happens to be Lego, doesn’t mean it should be looked down upon. Why should we let others ruin our childhood fun?
I remember grinding out the Indiana jones runner where you escape the boulder and stuff. For some reason our computer didn’t save my progress so one night I just completed the whole thing after weeks of perfecting my runs lol
the old lego racing stunt arena was my GAME that and I have a core memory of my friend doing the shooting and me doing the moving around to beat Dino Attack
I told about 30 employees at work that I collect only star wars lego and I could care less what they think about it and to this day I have about a handful of coworkers ask me how am I doing collecting... now im not going to make it sound like it's all gravy because there are some employees that did give me a weird look, but I'm 33 years old. I don't give two shits😂😂
@sirw7630 you would be surprised, but there was one employee who actually had a large bin filled with old Lego, and he didn't want it anymore, so he gave it to me for free I obviously picked out what I wanted and then sold the rest to Bricks and minifigs for store credit.
I am a 22 year old man, I turn 23 this year as well. My reason for loving LEGO so much is because I get to play with them and create my own stories. I would even write down how I would want the story to go, and it makes me really happy. When I have a short amount of time to play with my LEGO I just pull out a few minifigs and just play for a bit, but whenever I have a lot of time, I pull out some sets and just go crazy and create a elaborate story with lore lol. As someone who has come to terms with loving certain hobbies and enjoying whatever I do without carrying who judges me, it can get a a little exhausting hearing the same things repeated such as "arent you too old to play with toys?" or "That's really weird as an adult" etc... I just try to move on but sometimes it does get to me. Yes I have a job and I go to college full time and I have many bills like everyone else does, but I feel that people ignore that part of me and just see the me playing with LEGO and it makes people go away from me. It has happened quiet often where I would meet new people and I would mention how I love LEGO, and they automatically just think its weird, but when I get home from those terrible outings I pull out my LEGO and I start playing with them and it really just boost my mood because even though many people will leave me I just know that my LEGOs will always be there for me.
I'm probably not your target audience because I'm 50 years old, but I'll tell you the truth. I lost what Lego meant to me for like 30-odd years. After nearly dying two years ago, I decided that it was my therapy. It's a wonderful, wholesome thing and I don't think anyone has room to criticize.
I am a child and the reason I collect LEGO is for the feeling of waiting months to get a new LEGO set and then finally building it, taking a good look at it, and then displaying it.
I like having something to do that doesn't involve a screen for a change. It lets me do something else with my hands rather than hold a controller or use a keyboard. Of course there are other hobbies that allow this, I've always liked Tabletop battle games like Warhammer but being dyspraxic I find precise fine motor skills like gluing and painting a small (and expensive) plastic figure very difficult. I know whatever I finish with will not even look as half as good as what is on the box art. Lego on the other hand is simple with great instructions and it is always going to look great when you finish. There is no price for a mistake as everything can be dissasembled and reassembled. Once I'm done I like messing about and taking pictures. With the Lego castle I besieged it with all the pink frogs I got from the alternate build of the bonsai tree and had the knights fighting them off from the battlements. I used the all pink minifig from the Everyone is Awesome set as the leader of the pink frog horde. Currently thinking of what they can battle next...
I feel ashamed sometimes when I build lego. Knowing you like to play lego too makes me feel better. Thanks for making this video! Forrestfire101 is so good!
The recent Dune ornithopter is a set that's specifically designed as a playset for adults. It is too heavy and too big to be comfortably held by most children, but the size of the tail, the intended handle, is strangely ergonomically perfect for adult hand, and it places most control mechanisms within reach. I love playing with mine, picking it up, flapping the wings a bit, it's a great stress reliever.
Well that’s the reason i hate the set. I wanted a display only piece. There are too many red and blue pins and a lot of exposed Technic to make the wings move. I view LEGO different. I Build the sets, Display them and pretty much never touch them again. So of cause I want them to look accurate (and not have technic and ugly colors showing)
Honestly my best friend and I made a whole LEGO Strategy Game so we could keep playing with our LEGO and creating stories after 'taking a break' from LEGO in high school and early college. Great video, thanks for sharing and encouraging us all to be a little more honest with ourselves. And LEGO needs to make non-expensive castle sets with play features!!
I build only Star Wars sets, the big technic cars, and some misc sets that are just beautiful (like Rivendell). And I have a lot of Lego. I enjoy the process of building (all kinds of things), displaying, and the subject matter that I built (loved pre-Disney Star Wars). It's fantastic in my office. Plus, I like kids going bonkers checking it out. I'm 51.
im 61 grew up playing with it, then later with my bro as he was 10 yrs younger than me. then i had kids and played with their sets with them. now its grandkids and in my humble opinion you are NEVER too old to play with lego
People in my school always say "legos are so childish" when they are bringing the most out of pocket toys to play with. I loves your vids and I hope u get to 100k soon!
I enjoy Lego because it’s that part of my childhood I never have to grow out of, and my form of playing with my Legos is doing Stop Motions it’s so much fun grabbing two of my favorite figures and having them fight each other.
I can honestly say that at 54 I play with Lego almost exactly the same way I used to do when I was 10.. but the thing is that for me it was always the design and creative building that appealed to me. When I was a kid I would swoosh things I'd built but only for a minute, then it was on to redesigning and "improving" the model with some features of my own devising. Me and my best friend used to buy the same models and then informally compete with the best mods and with best I mean craziest.
The part about looking up all the content afterI get a set is SO TRUE. Super glad to mentioned this. I also love to look up content about it before it even arrives. Just to get more hyped.
Honestly I never really enjoyed “playing” with Lego as a kid in the traditional sense. As a teen fan of Lego I enjoy making my own creations, stopmotions and even photography, as these options are and were so much more interesting options to me! And I must admit, I also struggle to admit to people that I still enjoy Lego!
1 I love the universes they depict (Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Christmas collections) 2 They are often colorful and beautiful (floral collections and the medieval forge, for example) 3 Assembling them is a meditative, submersive, thoughtful and relaxing activity 4 I've always had a collector's itch for things I enjoy 5 Their little faces are happy and make you feel good 😂😊 I don't give a **** about what other people think. When you see how messed up the world is, how corrupt, how violent, how petty and jealous, how mixed-up, how many people are willing to vote a dictator into power, how many people believe in invisible gods and other such nonsense... you have to wonder why you would care about what these people think.
As someone who has more than 5 decades riding this rock through space, allow me to encourage EVERYONE to embrace that attitude that every kid has about their favorite dinosaur and give zero f#cks about what someone else might think. If you LOVE something that's "for kids" and it truly brings you contentment, don't apologize for your love of it. It's hard enough to find happiness in this world. Don't let others' judgment put you in a box you don't want to be in.
I am 46 yers old.Got into lego about three years ago.Started with lego technic and now lego star wars is my favourite.Still building the technic though .My friends and coworkers don't understand how could I spent so much money on "toys".They always say "you could have bought a brand new car for that money".But I don't want a brand new car.I want to keep spending money on lego .Because I love it!!!The space is a problem though.Looks like my 3 bedroom apartment is not big enough.But I always find new places to put the new sets :-).
2 reasons i like this hobby. I can finally buy all the shit I wanted when I was a kid, that my parents wouldn't buy me. I don't have a girlfriend/wife/family and pretty much no responsibilities. So why the hell shouldn't I do with my money, whatever I want? People have other expensive hobbies that others couldn't care less about. Cars, baseball card collections, guitar collections whatever the fuck. Live and leave be
Sorry for making this sad right out of the gate, but it really ties into my reason. I’m 45, and 7 years ago my wife died. I picked Lego back up as a way to distract myself and, yes, to reconnect with my inner kid. But what I want to tell those who read this, is more important. It led to me giving exactly zero….let’s say ‘hoots’ about what other people think about me and my hobbies. Yes, you’ll meet people who think it’s infantile. But what my wife taught me is that life is literally too short to spend even a second worrying about that. Please do what makes you happy and excuse yourself from the fake obligation of justifying it to others.
It gives me child-like joy to build LEGO sets, and I might fly around with the spaceships or pose my Bionicles in a cool way, but play-features are not really my thing as an adult. My favourite set at the moment is the micro-scale Architecture-style Hogwarts castle, which has no play features at all, it was just a load of fun to build and is amazing to look at.
I’m 60 years old and love building with Lego. My in laws think I’m turning back into a child. Oh well I’m going to have my fun. I’ve had the same job for 40 years it’s time to start enjoying life again.
Don't take offense to this, but you're still a kid, when I heard you say you were 23 I thought oh crap, wait until you hit 40 and start thinking about the same things.... I'm 44 and I absolutely enjoy my Lego sets, most people think they're pretty damn cool when they see the finished product
Funny how the people who diss us for having a real hobby are the ones who live their lives on tiktok and other social media that is nothing but sad. Then they tell us off when we actually have fun with what we do and it bothers them that they canr get the same satisfaction from what they do. But also, we dont grow up we just grow old.
As a 14 year old lego fan I can get this. My parents think I'm silly that I still like legos and spend lots of money on them. (Example: I recently bought the lego ghost) I'll never age out of Lego and whatever they think won't make me stop liking Lego.
I do like Lego not only for display now however I also do like them for collections like how I'm now trying to get Grevious sets with the Invisible hand and with the 2020 General Grevious starfighter
I work in IT, everybody around me is nerdy in one way or another. At least three of us tho are into Lego, me included. Nobody cares, everyone has fun with whatever hobby they have. Is there really a difference between being a Lego hobbiest then building diecast models, collecting coins, or other things? In the big picture, no.
If someone is going to judge me harshly for surrounding myself with sculptures made from plastic bricks they can take a hike. I don’t need that kind of negativity in my life.
Ill never understand why so many people care about what orhers think of you. Especially strangers. Ive never let it affect me. Screw them and do what you love and spend your money how you want !
I’m 49 and I like that it takes me away from my phone. It is engaging enough to focus me but not too intense that I get burned out. The sets are so fun to see coming together. I played with Lego as a kid too and I still have the same excitement for getting a new set as I did then. I don’t think you have to stop doing everything as an adult, there are certainly worse things you can do with your time.
Why dont people just stop worrying about what someone else thinks about your hobbies? As long as it doesn’t harm anyone, it’s really not relevant what someone else thinks.
Why do I like Lego? because I like to build things. Plastic model kits only let you build it once. Lego is better because I can take it apart and eventually build it again.
I’m 20, the most fun thing I do is set up old scenes from movies and shows like the Clone Wars then admiring the scene for awhile. I also like them on my display shelves. The quality in Lego has bothered me with a few false advertising errors and low quality mini figs. The UCS Captain Rex from the Venator is exceptionally bad, no one can lie. And stop saying that the new helmet holes are ok. They are out of place, they make the rangefinders look horrible, and the helmets are misshapen with them. If anything, change the visor molds and binocular molds so you aren’t ruining the look of the whole figure. And No, printed waist capes and printed pauldrons don’t look good.
I am 56 and I don’t give a dime about what people say or think. When they will start paying my rent, my bills, and buy my Lego sets, then they may have a say. Until then… Lego away !!!
it’s way better when you accept it 😂 who cares man just enjoy it it’s fun! no point being miserable when there’s something that’s fun right in front of you
I smile when i hear people talk about the age requirement of Lego based on the opinion of others . I am 65 years old and got into Lego for the first time in my life a few years ago with the UCS Falcon . I suffer from severe anxiety and Lego has literally saved my life and if society doesnt approve then society can go to hell . lol
I had a short dark age as a late teen (sold my lego) and early twenties (studies). At age 22 I started collecting and playing Pokémon TCG. Met my pokémon-loving now-wife, and she loved collecting and playing with My Little Pony. And loved Nintendo and introduced me to Mario, Zelda, Kirby etc. I picked up Lego in 2022 and bought everything Star Wars and Classic Space. Then onto the modulars and “adult” sets. My wife enjoys (building) lego as well, as do my children. Nobody is above swooshing a space ship. Why would you (need to) lose the ability to play? Most of my friends are into boardgames or Lego. They’re not judgemental at all about playing. My family (parents, siblings) kinda are. They’ve asked me hundreds of times “why don’t you sell -insert collection-“, because that’s what they would do, since they don’t understand. I always avoid talking about it, sunce it’s always a “waste of money”. In the living room, I just have a bunch of modular building and spme adults sets. When people come over and ask, I just tell them I love Lego, and they’re like “oh that’s cool”. Lego was a toy for children before the mid ‘80s, then expanded to teens (with expert sets and technic), then had a dark age in the late 90s (junior sets, bad themes), then started making sets for both children, teens ánd adult nerds from the early ‘00s (Star Wars, large sets, architecture etc) and now, early ‘20s, they’re expanding to “normal” adults. With sets like the typewriter, art sets, and especially the botanicals. Just yesterday, at the mall, I saw advertsing for a Lego flowers set, aimed at adults (give flowers you can build together). This would’ve been absurd decades ago. Lego is becoming a sonewhat normal hobby for adults.
What do you think of the tantive diorama (you may have seen it from Ryan or you may be in the process of making a review) personally I love the amount of play features on it
ADHD here: They help me Zen. Bright colors, tactile activity, and instructions that allow me to shut off my brain. I love the building process and seeing shadow form, and techniques used to make some really odd shapes. I love putting together an amorphous blob of bricks and then finally realizing what it's becoming. Knowing what the end product is going to be; knowing what my efforts are going towards reduces anxiety and registers in my as an achievable goal. And I love knowing that when it's finished, I touched and placed every single brick, giving me an odd, enhanced sense of ownership. I love planning on how and where I'll display them. I love that every time I look at them, each one gives me its own unique boost of dopamine. I love when someone is over and is really taken aback by what they're seeing, that it's Lego, and the wonder on their face. I love being a man in his 40's and openly talking about Lego as a hobby, people giving me the side-eye about it, I show them, and they almost immediately one-eighty and understand why people dig them so much (many will also see something and say that they'd like to have one). I love that a small, but well thought-out Lego set makes an amazing and impactful gift to an adult that doesn't do Lego. (Try it some time. Get a small set, under $30 is a good price, that's meaningful to the person in some way, and just watch what happens. ❤ ) Now, why do I buy the ones I buy? They make me happy. And, for me, it doesn't matter why. 😊
I'm just about a month older than you! That feels crazy. I just bought the knockoff lego "warframe liset orbiter" and bought the instructions from the MOC artist. Grown up money means grown up sized spaceships (i wasn't going to pay the Bricklink price lmao)
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” ― C.S. Lewis
I just turned 30 and love LEGO. If you have a hobby that doesn't hurt anyone and brings you joy - then there is no need to ever feel embarrassed about that. After about 25 I learned that if someone takes issue with your hobby, then that is their problem, not yours, and I just won't want to spend time with them. That said, the best way to enjoy LEGO is with my toddler. Even after I put together the UCS Razor Crest she said "wow daddy i love it! Can we play with the spaceship?". Of course we can
Well...house is paid off, the family is well taken care off, have plenty of disposable income and need a hobby. However I only collect specific sets and specific themes.
Love this video! But I have to ask, what’s the beef with LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga? It’s no complete saga, but it’s far better than the Force Awakens game!
Think the thing that made me love lego again as an adult is how incredibly well designed the system is. It’s crazy what the element designers are able to do and I have a deep appreciation for it
100% agree. It's so sad to see more and more Lego sets being marketed and intended as "display pieces", something that, once built, is supposed to be put on a shelf and that's it. Heck, even their name is an abbreviation of "play well" in Danish. Now it's just "build well" for too many sets.
When I’m building a set I’m actually imagining that the minifigs that come in the set are spaceship mechanics and are building the ship. I even bought a Stormtrooper mech to add an extra “tool” for the mechanics to do some of the heavy lifting. During the building I will place the mechanics and the tools in various positions to make it look like they’re actually working on an engine or a wing. I’ll be 35 next week, no shame! Love Lego en love your vids man
Im 40, done all my growing up years ago and feel no shame for loving the brick. I like making scenes complete with whatever is needed and then take it apart and organize it. I buy pab boxes every Wednesday and will continue to do so. Got mother into it and finally got my 19 year old daughter back into it. 😂
Oh yeah, I definitely have to face the prejudice of liking Lego in my 20s, my interest in it surged again some time ago, and i started collecting again, mostly the LEGO City set, even making small LEGO City diorama (WIP) on my room with it. I'm a bit more "liberal" with Lego though, as I not only collect Lego, but also brick stuff from other brands like Cobi, Sluban, and Sembo for my love for military vehicles as well (on a different part of the shelf) with affordable prices as LEGO is really expensive here, can't really use the brick link with affordable price sadly, despite that, in all these sets I like to "Add something" whether it's small or not, such as the LEGO City 2012 Forest Police Helicopter, I add a sliding door on the bottom of it, add a winch to make it able to lift stuff, adding net launcher to catch the baddies, even adding light to the set and giving it stand, I also do that to my other brick set from Cobi, Sluban, and Sembo, and recently I have the Sluban F-16 and been having fun times experimenting to make it looks better and more playable, making custom stand with my Lego I bought in the past and get some more from the local part seller, and make it as a custom diorama.
I didn’t really care for Lego when I was a kid. I’ll be 47 in a couple of weeks and the sets we had when I was a kid we’re too blocky for me. I grew up building plastic model kits, rockets and trains etc.. We also had erector sets Lincoln logs and something called girder and panel. I liked building but with all those but Lego was just one thing in the toy box. I got into Lego a few years ago because the sets got very sophisticated and started looking more authentic to what they were trying to portray. I dove in totally after my dad passed away because I decided to build his MAERSK train set he had. Now every year I build a new train on his birthday and build it for him. So I ended up buying the mos eisley cantina because it was my favorite location in Star Wars and I just had to have it. The rest is history. Now I have a ton of sets and I don’t care what other people think. I’ve found out that everyone I know loves Lego and nobody looks down on it in anyway.
I'm the same, I have a Lego channel to be able to spend more time with cool custom builds and show them at fun angles. I am working on another "excuse" to play with Lego as an adult which I'll hopefully show off at a later time.
Personally, I used to enjoy making animations with my lego, being a similar age to yourself I now find myself making them again to share on group chats with my friends 😂
it's that spoon full of sugar that makes the medicine go down. and it's just fun to pic up a set you built as a kid and either playing with it or doing repair work on it, or buying sets that you missed out on and finally being able to live those memories you've dreamt of playing with the sets that you considered to be the coolest sets ever, or buying sets that bring back memories of stuff you built as a kid like to buy a modular set to bring back the memories of an old mansion you built hen you were 12 or something.
Why I am back into Lego as an adult? Because I can take my Spaceship and go all "PEW PEW PEW" Or build a Minecraft world... or play with my Lego train... or just take a lot of bricks and build a big Battleship because... F*** you I have a Battleship... PEW PEW PEW!! XD
I've been playing with LEGO since 1973. I don't recall ever hearing a negative comment about my hobby. Perhaps I've just been lucky! I wouldn't want to be around someone who would criticize another's hobby.
I'm 36yo, used to play lego when I was a kid (had every single starwars sets of the first editions... but all got stolen when I moved to Indonesia in 2002). Anyways, I discovered randomly the Rivendell Lego Icon which I had to buy as a LOTR fan. And now, I'm here spending hundreds of dollars on original LOTR legos, which damn, are pricey lmao. But I take so much pleasure building them, I think I'm gonna get broke very quick! :X
I'm happily building XL sets from Mould King, Reobrix, Bluebrixx, Cada and other chinese vendors for much lower prices. There are great unlicensed models related to "Jaws" or "Battlestar Galactica" or the trench run of "SW: Episode IV" and Bluebrixx just released the 4th wave of their licensed Star Trek models, and now they have Robocop and Stargate too. Now that Lego even closed the military section of Bricklink, the only sources left are Cobi from Poland with a big selection of military ( including a "Top Gun" license) and a bunch of chinese vendors. Yes, I buy Lego now and then, but have you seen the big Jeep Wrangler from Mould King - it would be a great deal even without all the motors and pneumatics ...
I never played with Lego much growing up. For some reason it seemed like more of a boys thing. I’m not 36 and collect dolls, Care Bears and Lego’s and I’m living my best kidult life ❤ I never want to stop playing with toys. I also accept being the “weird women” who plays with toys! I also have ADHD so that’s a good excuse too 😂
Not really what I'm saying😂 That's up to you to decide. I'm just saying LEGO is able to make us feel like kids again with it's imagination and joy tied in
@@brickmasterharri I am a 36 year old kid with 7 children under 15 totally understand. Except I never had to be a kid again. I haven't stopped being childish ever. lol I still have my Millenium Falcon and my Yoda Lego from when I was a kid. But never an investment my kids have built them several times themselves lol
You kinda chose the wrong display set example, because the invisible hand does have the cool play feature of being broken in half just like ROTS... but I do see your point lol
I love Lego, my family knows it and i know it. My friends know it too. And i proudly come out the LEGO shop and Carry around the set i just brought. It's the only toy I've gotten and still get to this day. Was never into action figures, Soft toys or RC (and the first one i brought immediately broke) so I've always got Lego as it was consistent and it's something my family could afford to get me without being too expensive. I had a budget of usually 90-120 but would usually go under and favour buying multiple sets rather than just one big set. I enjoy building Lego and finding new techniques (thats why i love Speed Champions) and collect Star Wars, Ninjago, 3in1 and Technic but I've stopped moc building and only just collect sets and Display them now ofc i play with them. So I'm after stuff like UCS, Icons etc. I also need to start some photography to capture my dioramas/displays lol.
Since 1999 I restarted to collect lego, especially with Star Wars, took my lego out of their storage. Rebuilt some and restarted to collect found lots of sets at my local flea market not only star wars but johnny thunder egyptians tombs, lego western, indiana jones harry potter, city, castle, space, pirate. DC, Marvel. Love to build stuff, modify sets (especially city) Im 52 I still collect Lego anything that can interest me. Love doing MOC
I never played with Lego much growing up. For some reason it seemed like more of a boys thing. I’m not 36 and collect dolls, Care Bears and Lego’s and I’m living my best kidult life ❤ I never want to stop playing with toys. I also accept being the “weird women” who plays with toys!
35 years old. Returned 8 years ago to Lego and initially collected just UCS. Now I buy every Icons/Ideas/Star Wars sets that I like. My wife is fine with it and friends etc. mostly don’t care. But nobody makes fun about it. When people like Henry Cavill etc. also collect it, it is already popovulture and „cool“
I thought this would be about how LEGO is the most expensice brick toy yet doesn‘t deliver on quality and quantity. I‘m honest about liking brick toys, but I‘m very critical about LEGO as company. There‘s better options out there nowadays.
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I think you are absolutely right, legos not only hold memories but they make you experience them again
Ohhhh wow this is well said!!
I love lego for the amount of creativity
So true!
In the last few years I had real problems to enjoy Christmas, but last Christmas I bought myself an old 2002 Harry Potter Set (Chamber of Secrets) and not only was I excited again but also felt the same magic again that I felt when putting together the 2001 Hogwarts Castle as a kid.
Lego really helps me reliving my childhood memorie and, in some way, make new ones.
Mate David beckham loves Lego so it’s ok no matter what age
I am 57 yrs old and got my first set, LEGO Police car set 611 in 1973. When my favorite toy and my favorite movie joined, I was all in. Now my collection is out of control with Star Wars (almost all of them since the beginning), Iron Man, Bat Mobiles, NASA, the bigger cars, and the Botanicals. Building a new set is my Happy Place. My granddaughter knows the difference between Papa's LEGOs and her LEGOs. She helps me build a ship and we fly it around the house then put it on a shelf, then we build her princess castle or Spiderman set and fight the villains.
That was my first set too! I've rebuilt it since, the printed bricks are the original ones but they still fit with new ones even after 50 years.
I am 55 and mine is getting out of control too LOL. Just built the new Viking Vilalge set this past weekend. Looking forward to the LoTR Black Tower coming out later this year. Rivendell last year was an amazing build.
Your never too old to enjoy Lego
Personally I think the reason I like Lego is because I can finally get the sets I wished I could afford as a kid ( plus I could have a cool display piece )
Couldn’t have said it better man!
Solid reason!
Lmao that’s my exact reason in November I was finally able to get the assembly square a set I wanted since I was little just before it retired
Same
@@michael-sl7zo cool, I got myself the Ewok Village in october
As an adult, I love the collectibility of lego. I appreciate things that hold value and can be proud of as a collectible.
Lego and other building blocks help me put the phone down and disengage from all the negative stuff being thrown at us.
I have Been into Lego since I was a kid. All yhe way till 19. I took a huge hiatus from them through my 20s, getting myself established. But now I'm in my 30s and enjoying all the sets. They are putting out now for adults. I love the engineering and design portion of it. And then just collecting is fun for me as well. I've gotten to the point where I work for what I have. If somebody doesn't like lego, or me or what I do then too bad.
nearly 23 myself and i made the "terrific" decision to start rebuilding nearly 20 years worth of sets :I its taken 3 weeks and ive only finished aqua raiders, bionicle, exoforce and power miners lol. the sets and containers i still need to do weigh in at 125kg to go.
Iv always loved star wars, about 3 months ago i decided to watch the Clone wars, it just made me love the whole universe even more. I absolutely love Captain Rex and i wouldnt shut up about the show to my girlfriend so for Christmas she bought me the Lego Captain Rex helmet and Luke red five. I am now obsessed with star wars lego lol i just turned 34 and i feel abit "embarrassed" about getting them in local shops. But i love putting them together and its so relaxing building them 😊
Dude, I’m not an adult but that’s literally what I’ve been saying there are a lot of adult UA-camrs out there that are not being entirely honest with their opinions on Lego and honestly I like to collect Lego and play with Lego because why not
this is especially hard as a teenager because people think that you “haven’t matured yet” and i get bullied at my high school because i started the LEGO club there and people judge me for not “growing out” of LEGO.
that was the longest comment i’ve ever made on a video
You're the audience I really wanted this video to reach! Don't listen to those people. You can totally mature while still enjoying a fun hobby. So cool of you to start a club!
As someone who’s graduated college & is now working for one of the biggest & most professional companies in the world. None of what those people say matter brother. Enjoy it, I got back into Lego & regret never being able to get into Lego when I was younger. Keep doing you man, be yourself.
I'm a teenager and I still really enjoy Lego and I've always mentioned to people that "you can never be told old for Lego".
Omg frrr it’s so weird in high school and especially as a girl it’s even harder to even find people you can geek out with
As an Adult it's an escape but it's also a way to help me stay away from drinking, and for me to help me connect with my niece and nephew. Seriously the time I've spent building Legos has helped me stay away from alcohol and helped keep me focused. It also helps me keep a budget, if theres a set I like, I look at the price then do the math and if I can afford it yeah I get it if it's not in the budget than I try again next month
On of the best advertisements that lego is good for mental health!
I'll be honest, I'm 25 and on the Autism Spectrum. A lot of Spectrum people, myself included, keep their childhood hobbies and just expand on them instead of "growing outta them." Dinosaurs became Paleontology, Lego just... kept being Lego. I'm just still Dani. Dani likes Lego. Simple as that. ♡
W comment. Even neurotypical individuals shouldn’t be ashamed about expending their childhood passions into their adulthood. Just because ours happens to be Lego, doesn’t mean it should be looked down upon. Why should we let others ruin our childhood fun?
Wowee I'm 17 and yea autistic
I have autism too and love building since I was a kid.
This is true, as a fellow spectrum kid I can confirm Lego has stayed Lego and I'll never stop loving it for that.
@@ZoeAnderson-d2w neat pfp
The old LEGO website is such a throwback, I spent so many hours on there as a kid playing all the flash games.
The old rebels platformer was brilliant.
I remember grinding out the Indiana jones runner where you escape the boulder and stuff. For some reason our computer didn’t save my progress so one night I just completed the whole thing after weeks of perfecting my runs lol
the old lego racing stunt arena was my GAME that and I have a core memory of my friend doing the shooting and me doing the moving around to beat Dino Attack
Im trying to think of this racing game they had on there your comment brought the memory back lol just dk the name
I told about 30 employees at work that I collect only star wars lego and I could care less what they think about it and to this day I have about a handful of coworkers ask me how am I doing collecting... now im not going to make it sound like it's all gravy because there are some employees that did give me a weird look, but I'm 33 years old. I don't give two shits😂😂
You might be the most self confidant, borderline cocky 33 yo AFOL I ever read about! haha I love it.
@sirw7630 you would be surprised, but there was one employee who actually had a large bin filled with old Lego, and he didn't want it anymore, so he gave it to me for free I obviously picked out what I wanted and then sold the rest to Bricks and minifigs for store credit.
Based
People telling you 'Lego is for kids' when they collect dozens of Funko pop, lol ^^'
🤣 true
I am a 22 year old man, I turn 23 this year as well. My reason for loving LEGO so much is because I get to play with them and create my own stories. I would even write down how I would want the story to go, and it makes me really happy. When I have a short amount of time to play with my LEGO I just pull out a few minifigs and just play for a bit, but whenever I have a lot of time, I pull out some sets and just go crazy and create a elaborate story with lore lol. As someone who has come to terms with loving certain hobbies and enjoying whatever I do without carrying who judges me, it can get a a little exhausting hearing the same things repeated such as "arent you too old to play with toys?" or "That's really weird as an adult" etc... I just try to move on but sometimes it does get to me. Yes I have a job and I go to college full time and I have many bills like everyone else does, but I feel that people ignore that part of me and just see the me playing with LEGO and it makes people go away from me. It has happened quiet often where I would meet new people and I would mention how I love LEGO, and they automatically just think its weird, but when I get home from those terrible outings I pull out my LEGO and I start playing with them and it really just boost my mood because even though many people will leave me I just know that my LEGOs will always be there for me.
I'm probably not your target audience because I'm 50 years old, but I'll tell you the truth. I lost what Lego meant to me for like 30-odd years. After nearly dying two years ago, I decided that it was my therapy. It's a wonderful, wholesome thing and I don't think anyone has room to criticize.
I am a child and the reason I collect LEGO is for the feeling of waiting months to get a new LEGO set and then finally building it, taking a good look at it, and then displaying it.
That's great to hear! Keep making those core memories bro🫡
@@brickmasterharri Thank you
I like having something to do that doesn't involve a screen for a change. It lets me do something else with my hands rather than hold a controller or use a keyboard.
Of course there are other hobbies that allow this, I've always liked Tabletop battle games like Warhammer but being dyspraxic I find precise fine motor skills like gluing and painting a small (and expensive) plastic figure very difficult. I know whatever I finish with will not even look as half as good as what is on the box art.
Lego on the other hand is simple with great instructions and it is always going to look great when you finish. There is no price for a mistake as everything can be dissasembled and reassembled.
Once I'm done I like messing about and taking pictures. With the Lego castle I besieged it with all the pink frogs I got from the alternate build of the bonsai tree and had the knights fighting them off from the battlements. I used the all pink minifig from the Everyone is Awesome set as the leader of the pink frog horde. Currently thinking of what they can battle next...
I play tabletop battle games with my Castle Lego 🙂
I feel ashamed sometimes when I build lego. Knowing you like to play lego too makes me feel better. Thanks for making this video! Forrestfire101 is so good!
There is no need to feel ashamed about building or playing with Lego
FWIW i totally play with my lego too! paladins battle orcs, there are space battles, and of course D&D
The recent Dune ornithopter is a set that's specifically designed as a playset for adults. It is too heavy and too big to be comfortably held by most children, but the size of the tail, the intended handle, is strangely ergonomically perfect for adult hand, and it places most control mechanisms within reach. I love playing with mine, picking it up, flapping the wings a bit, it's a great stress reliever.
Well that’s the reason i hate the set. I wanted a display only piece. There are too many red and blue pins and a lot of exposed Technic to make the wings move. I view LEGO different. I Build the sets, Display them and pretty much never touch them again. So of cause I want them to look accurate (and not have technic and ugly colors showing)
@@xhearthfirex6571 Scale modelling will met your expectations much better than LEGO then.
Honestly my best friend and I made a whole LEGO Strategy Game so we could keep playing with our LEGO and creating stories after 'taking a break' from LEGO in high school and early college. Great video, thanks for sharing and encouraging us all to be a little more honest with ourselves.
And LEGO needs to make non-expensive castle sets with play features!!
I build only Star Wars sets, the big technic cars, and some misc sets that are just beautiful (like Rivendell). And I have a lot of Lego.
I enjoy the process of building (all kinds of things), displaying, and the subject matter that I built (loved pre-Disney Star Wars). It's fantastic in my office. Plus, I like kids going bonkers checking it out.
I'm 51.
im 61 grew up playing with it, then later with my bro as he was 10 yrs younger than me. then i had kids and played with their sets with them. now its grandkids and in my humble opinion you are NEVER too old to play with lego
People in my school always say "legos are so childish" when they are bringing the most out of pocket toys to play with. I loves your vids and I hope u get to 100k soon!
I enjoy Lego because it’s that part of my childhood I never have to grow out of, and my form of playing with my Legos is doing Stop Motions it’s so much fun grabbing two of my favorite figures and having them fight each other.
That's so sick! I tried stop motion when I was a kid, but never had the patience for it
@@brickmasterharri yea the last one I made took me all day but it’s always cool to see your hard work pay off.
What if we prefer to talk about LEGO sets that we will NEVER buy?? Am I a bad content creator 😢
I can honestly say that at 54 I play with Lego almost exactly the same way I used to do when I was 10.. but the thing is that for me it was always the design and creative building that appealed to me. When I was a kid I would swoosh things I'd built but only for a minute, then it was on to redesigning and "improving" the model with some features of my own devising. Me and my best friend used to buy the same models and then informally compete with the best mods and with best I mean craziest.
The part about looking up all the content afterI get a set is SO TRUE. Super glad to mentioned this. I also love to look up content about it before it even arrives. Just to get more hyped.
Honestly I never really enjoyed “playing” with Lego as a kid in the traditional sense. As a teen fan of Lego I enjoy making my own creations, stopmotions and even photography, as these options are and were so much more interesting options to me! And I must admit, I also struggle to admit to people that I still enjoy Lego!
1 I love the universes they depict (Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Christmas collections)
2 They are often colorful and beautiful (floral collections and the medieval forge, for example)
3 Assembling them is a meditative, submersive, thoughtful and relaxing activity
4 I've always had a collector's itch for things I enjoy
5 Their little faces are happy and make you feel good 😂😊
I don't give a **** about what other people think. When you see how messed up the world is, how corrupt, how violent, how petty and jealous, how mixed-up, how many people are willing to vote a dictator into power, how many people believe in invisible gods and other such nonsense... you have to wonder why you would care about what these people think.
As someone who has more than 5 decades riding this rock through space, allow me to encourage EVERYONE to embrace that attitude that every kid has about their favorite dinosaur and give zero f#cks about what someone else might think.
If you LOVE something that's "for kids" and it truly brings you contentment, don't apologize for your love of it. It's hard enough to find happiness in this world. Don't let others' judgment put you in a box you don't want to be in.
I am 46 yers old.Got into lego about three years ago.Started with lego technic and now lego star wars is my favourite.Still building the technic though .My friends and coworkers don't understand how could I spent so much money on "toys".They always say "you could have bought a brand new car for that money".But I don't want a brand new car.I want to keep spending money on lego .Because I love it!!!The space is a problem though.Looks like my 3 bedroom apartment is not big enough.But I always find new places to put the new sets :-).
2 reasons i like this hobby.
I can finally buy all the shit I wanted when I was a kid, that my parents wouldn't buy me.
I don't have a girlfriend/wife/family and pretty much no responsibilities. So why the hell shouldn't I do with my money, whatever I want? People have other expensive hobbies that others couldn't care less about. Cars, baseball card collections, guitar collections whatever the fuck. Live and leave be
Sorry for making this sad right out of the gate, but it really ties into my reason. I’m 45, and 7 years ago my wife died. I picked Lego back up as a way to distract myself and, yes, to reconnect with my inner kid. But what I want to tell those who read this, is more important.
It led to me giving exactly zero….let’s say ‘hoots’ about what other people think about me and my hobbies. Yes, you’ll meet people who think it’s infantile. But what my wife taught me is that life is literally too short to spend even a second worrying about that. Please do what makes you happy and excuse yourself from the fake obligation of justifying it to others.
I adore my Lego Dune Ornithopter. It’s the ideal set for an adult who plays with their sets.
DUDE YES that thing is SO sick
It gives me child-like joy to build LEGO sets, and I might fly around with the spaceships or pose my Bionicles in a cool way, but play-features are not really my thing as an adult. My favourite set at the moment is the micro-scale Architecture-style Hogwarts castle, which has no play features at all, it was just a load of fun to build and is amazing to look at.
I’m 60 years old and love building with Lego. My in laws think I’m turning back into a child. Oh well I’m going to have my fun. I’ve had the same job for 40 years it’s time to start enjoying life again.
Don't take offense to this, but you're still a kid, when I heard you say you were 23 I thought oh crap, wait until you hit 40 and start thinking about the same things.... I'm 44 and I absolutely enjoy my Lego sets, most people think they're pretty damn cool when they see the finished product
Funny how the people who diss us for having a real hobby are the ones who live their lives on tiktok and other social media that is nothing but sad.
Then they tell us off when we actually have fun with what we do and it bothers them that they canr get the same satisfaction from what they do.
But also, we dont grow up we just grow old.
As a 14 year old lego fan I can get this. My parents think I'm silly that I still like legos and spend lots of money on them. (Example: I recently bought the lego ghost) I'll never age out of Lego and whatever they think won't make me stop liking Lego.
I do like Lego not only for display now however I also do like them for collections like how I'm now trying to get Grevious sets with the Invisible hand and with the 2020 General Grevious starfighter
I work in IT, everybody around me is nerdy in one way or another. At least three of us tho are into Lego, me included. Nobody cares, everyone has fun with whatever hobby they have.
Is there really a difference between being a Lego hobbiest then building diecast models, collecting coins, or other things? In the big picture, no.
If someone is going to judge me harshly for surrounding myself with sculptures made from plastic bricks they can take a hike. I don’t need that kind of negativity in my life.
Ill never understand why so many people care about what orhers think of you. Especially strangers. Ive never let it affect me. Screw them and do what you love and spend your money how you want !
I’m 49 and I like that it takes me away from my phone. It is engaging enough to focus me but not too intense that I get burned out. The sets are so fun to see coming together. I played with Lego as a kid too and I still have the same excitement for getting a new set as I did then. I don’t think you have to stop doing everything as an adult, there are certainly worse things you can do with your time.
Why dont people just stop worrying about what someone else thinks about your hobbies? As long as it doesn’t harm anyone, it’s really not relevant what someone else thinks.
Why do I like Lego? because I like to build things. Plastic model kits only let you build it once. Lego is better because I can take it apart and eventually build it again.
Thank you. I completely agree. Adults need to let go of their pride and allow themselves to enjoy being kids again.
I’m 20, the most fun thing I do is set up old scenes from movies and shows like the Clone Wars then admiring the scene for awhile. I also like them on my display shelves. The quality in Lego has bothered me with a few false advertising errors and low quality mini figs. The UCS Captain Rex from the Venator is exceptionally bad, no one can lie. And stop saying that the new helmet holes are ok. They are out of place, they make the rangefinders look horrible, and the helmets are misshapen with them. If anything, change the visor molds and binocular molds so you aren’t ruining the look of the whole figure. And No, printed waist capes and printed pauldrons don’t look good.
I am 56 and I don’t give a dime about what people say or think. When they will start paying my rent, my bills, and buy my Lego sets, then they may have a say. Until then…
Lego away !!!
it’s way better when you accept it 😂 who cares man just enjoy it it’s fun! no point being miserable when there’s something that’s fun right in front of you
Why don’t you like the Skywalker saga, it is a big game with tons of cool features and a big open world.
I smile when i hear people talk about the age requirement of Lego based on the opinion of others . I am 65 years old and got into Lego for the first time in my life a few years ago with the UCS Falcon . I suffer from severe anxiety and Lego has literally saved my life and if society doesnt approve then society can go to hell . lol
I had a short dark age as a late teen (sold my lego) and early twenties (studies). At age 22 I started collecting and playing Pokémon TCG. Met my pokémon-loving now-wife, and she loved collecting and playing with My Little Pony. And loved Nintendo and introduced me to Mario, Zelda, Kirby etc. I picked up Lego in 2022 and bought everything Star Wars and Classic Space. Then onto the modulars and “adult” sets. My wife enjoys (building) lego as well, as do my children. Nobody is above swooshing a space ship. Why would you (need to) lose the ability to play?
Most of my friends are into boardgames or Lego. They’re not judgemental at all about playing. My family (parents, siblings) kinda are. They’ve asked me hundreds of times “why don’t you sell -insert collection-“, because that’s what they would do, since they don’t understand. I always avoid talking about it, sunce it’s always a “waste of money”.
In the living room, I just have a bunch of modular building and spme adults sets. When people come over and ask, I just tell them I love Lego, and they’re like “oh that’s cool”.
Lego was a toy for children before the mid ‘80s, then expanded to teens (with expert sets and technic), then had a dark age in the late 90s (junior sets, bad themes), then started making sets for both children, teens ánd adult nerds from the early ‘00s (Star Wars, large sets, architecture etc) and now, early ‘20s, they’re expanding to “normal” adults. With sets like the typewriter, art sets, and especially the botanicals.
Just yesterday, at the mall, I saw advertsing for a Lego flowers set, aimed at adults (give flowers you can build together). This would’ve been absurd decades ago. Lego is becoming a sonewhat normal hobby for adults.
28 here. Don't give a damn about other people's opinions. It's my life.
Just like to display it and don't give a funk about others! I'm 50 ant proud collector of Lego SWs with my son! Also since 2021! Lets GO
What do you think of the tantive diorama (you may have seen it from Ryan or you may be in the process of making a review) personally I love the amount of play features on it
ADHD here: They help me Zen. Bright colors, tactile activity, and instructions that allow me to shut off my brain. I love the building process and seeing shadow form, and techniques used to make some really odd shapes. I love putting together an amorphous blob of bricks and then finally realizing what it's becoming. Knowing what the end product is going to be; knowing what my efforts are going towards reduces anxiety and registers in my as an achievable goal. And I love knowing that when it's finished, I touched and placed every single brick, giving me an odd, enhanced sense of ownership.
I love planning on how and where I'll display them. I love that every time I look at them, each one gives me its own unique boost of dopamine. I love when someone is over and is really taken aback by what they're seeing, that it's Lego, and the wonder on their face. I love being a man in his 40's and openly talking about Lego as a hobby, people giving me the side-eye about it, I show them, and they almost immediately one-eighty and understand why people dig them so much (many will also see something and say that they'd like to have one). I love that a small, but well thought-out Lego set makes an amazing and impactful gift to an adult that doesn't do Lego. (Try it some time. Get a small set, under $30 is a good price, that's meaningful to the person in some way, and just watch what happens. ❤ )
Now, why do I buy the ones I buy?
They make me happy. And, for me, it doesn't matter why. 😊
Absolutely no problem admitting that I play with Lego for an escape from too serious of stuff in the adult world.
You hit the nail on the head! I wish I hadn’t stopped collecting LEGO during high school and most of college.
Great video Harri!
I'm just about a month older than you! That feels crazy. I just bought the knockoff lego "warframe liset orbiter" and bought the instructions from the MOC artist. Grown up money means grown up sized spaceships (i wasn't going to pay the Bricklink price lmao)
I like you man. And I see a lot of similarities between you and me when it comes to LEGO
I love it when sets have a good interior. Just like that Star destroyer you talked about in the video.
Please bring back play features Lego!
PLEASE
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― C.S. Lewis
woke up and decided to comment facts on this video🔥
I just turned 30 and love LEGO. If you have a hobby that doesn't hurt anyone and brings you joy - then there is no need to ever feel embarrassed about that. After about 25 I learned that if someone takes issue with your hobby, then that is their problem, not yours, and I just won't want to spend time with them.
That said, the best way to enjoy LEGO is with my toddler. Even after I put together the UCS Razor Crest she said "wow daddy i love it! Can we play with the spaceship?". Of course we can
Well...house is paid off, the family is well taken care off, have plenty of disposable income and need a hobby. However I only collect specific sets and specific themes.
living the dream🫡
I never knew what I was getting myself into when I first started collecting in 2017
I'm a 42yr old veteran. Building and playing around with the ships and the minifigures after helps with my ptsd.
I love that. Thank you for your service!!
The older you get, the more you don't care. For me at least
Love this video! But I have to ask, what’s the beef with LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga? It’s no complete saga, but it’s far better than the Force Awakens game!
it's just too easy! complete saga felt harder and even more fun at times because it didn't tell you how to play all the time
My girlfriend saw you in this video and said you looked like you smell like A&W 😂😂
Not a bad smell, either lol
I have NO idea what to think of this🤣
Think the thing that made me love lego again as an adult is how incredibly well designed the system is. It’s crazy what the element designers are able to do and I have a deep appreciation for it
I continually marvel at the engineering involved as I build a set.
100% agree. It's so sad to see more and more Lego sets being marketed and intended as "display pieces", something that, once built, is supposed to be put on a shelf and that's it. Heck, even their name is an abbreviation of "play well" in Danish. Now it's just "build well" for too many sets.
It is an addiction. I don’t use substances I buy Lego. I’m a legoholic no joke
straight up I'll tell people this all the time🤣
When I’m building a set I’m actually imagining that the minifigs that come in the set are spaceship mechanics and are building the ship.
I even bought a Stormtrooper mech to add an extra “tool” for the mechanics to do some of the heavy lifting.
During the building I will place the mechanics and the tools in various positions to make it look like they’re actually working on an engine or a wing.
I’ll be 35 next week, no shame! Love Lego en love your vids man
So you are not supposed to swoosh them around and make sound effects? LOL
no no you ARE I just thought I was too cool for it lol
Im 40, done all my growing up years ago and feel no shame for loving the brick. I like making scenes complete with whatever is needed and then take it apart and organize it. I buy pab boxes every Wednesday and will continue to do so. Got mother into it and finally got my 19 year old daughter back into it. 😂
I do lego photography
I play & display about my sets and I’m 14 I do battles of star wars
That's what's up!! I'd totally battle you with my Sail Barge Leia🤣
Oh yeah, I definitely have to face the prejudice of liking Lego in my 20s, my interest in it surged again some time ago, and i started collecting again, mostly the LEGO City set, even making small LEGO City diorama (WIP) on my room with it.
I'm a bit more "liberal" with Lego though, as I not only collect Lego, but also brick stuff from other brands like Cobi, Sluban, and Sembo for my love for military vehicles as well (on a different part of the shelf) with affordable prices as LEGO is really expensive here, can't really use the brick link with affordable price sadly, despite that, in all these sets I like to "Add something" whether it's small or not, such as the LEGO City 2012 Forest Police Helicopter, I add a sliding door on the bottom of it, add a winch to make it able to lift stuff, adding net launcher to catch the baddies, even adding light to the set and giving it stand, I also do that to my other brick set from Cobi, Sluban, and Sembo, and recently I have the Sluban F-16 and been having fun times experimenting to make it looks better and more playable, making custom stand with my Lego I bought in the past and get some more from the local part seller, and make it as a custom diorama.
I didn’t really care for Lego when I was a kid. I’ll be 47 in a couple of weeks and the sets we had when I was a kid we’re too blocky for me. I grew up building plastic model kits, rockets and trains etc.. We also had erector sets Lincoln logs and something called girder and panel. I liked building but with all those but Lego was just one thing in the toy box.
I got into Lego a few years ago because the sets got very sophisticated and started looking more authentic to what they were trying to portray. I dove in totally after my dad passed away because I decided to build his MAERSK train set he had. Now every year I build a new train on his birthday and build it for him. So I ended up buying the mos eisley cantina because it was my favorite location in Star Wars and I just had to have it. The rest is history. Now I have a ton of sets and I don’t care what other people think. I’ve found out that everyone I know loves Lego and nobody looks down on it in anyway.
I like building and I enjoy the completion aspect. Plus, they display wonderfully!
I'm the same, I have a Lego channel to be able to spend more time with cool custom builds and show them at fun angles. I am working on another "excuse" to play with Lego as an adult which I'll hopefully show off at a later time.
Personally, I used to enjoy making animations with my lego, being a similar age to yourself I now find myself making them again to share on group chats with my friends 😂
pizzamovies is a real nostalgia trip for me.
it's that spoon full of sugar that makes the medicine go down. and it's just fun to pic up a set you built as a kid and either playing with it or doing repair work on it, or buying sets that you missed out on and finally being able to live those memories you've dreamt of playing with the sets that you considered to be the coolest sets ever, or buying sets that bring back memories of stuff you built as a kid like to buy a modular set to bring back the memories of an old mansion you built hen you were 12 or something.
Why I am back into Lego as an adult? Because I can take my Spaceship and go all "PEW PEW PEW" Or build a Minecraft world... or play with my Lego train... or just take a lot of bricks and build a big Battleship because... F*** you I have a Battleship... PEW PEW PEW!! XD
I've been playing with LEGO since 1973. I don't recall ever hearing a negative comment about my hobby. Perhaps I've just been lucky! I wouldn't want to be around someone who would criticize another's hobby.
I'm 36yo, used to play lego when I was a kid (had every single starwars sets of the first editions... but all got stolen when I moved to Indonesia in 2002). Anyways, I discovered randomly the Rivendell Lego Icon which I had to buy as a LOTR fan. And now, I'm here spending hundreds of dollars on original LOTR legos, which damn, are pricey lmao. But I take so much pleasure building them, I think I'm gonna get broke very quick! :X
I'm happily building XL sets from Mould King, Reobrix, Bluebrixx, Cada and other chinese vendors for much lower prices. There are great unlicensed models related to "Jaws" or "Battlestar Galactica" or the trench run of "SW: Episode IV" and Bluebrixx just released the 4th wave of their licensed Star Trek models, and now they have Robocop and Stargate too.
Now that Lego even closed the military section of Bricklink, the only sources left are Cobi from Poland with a big selection of military ( including a "Top Gun" license) and a bunch of chinese vendors. Yes, I buy Lego now and then, but have you seen the big Jeep Wrangler from Mould King - it would be a great deal even without all the motors and pneumatics ...
I never played with Lego much growing up. For some reason it seemed like more of a boys thing.
I’m not 36 and collect dolls, Care Bears and Lego’s and I’m living my best kidult life ❤ I never want to stop playing with toys.
I also accept being the “weird women” who plays with toys! I also have ADHD so that’s a good excuse too 😂
You mean how they keep telling their families it is an investment, when it is really just a kids toy?
Not really what I'm saying😂 That's up to you to decide. I'm just saying LEGO is able to make us feel like kids again with it's imagination and joy tied in
@@brickmasterharri I am a 36 year old kid with 7 children under 15 totally understand. Except I never had to be a kid again. I haven't stopped being childish ever. lol I still have my Millenium Falcon and my Yoda Lego from when I was a kid. But never an investment my kids have built them several times themselves lol
You kinda chose the wrong display set example, because the invisible hand does have the cool play feature of being broken in half just like ROTS... but I do see your point lol
I love Lego, my family knows it and i know it. My friends know it too. And i proudly come out the LEGO shop and Carry around the set i just brought.
It's the only toy I've gotten and still get to this day. Was never into action figures, Soft toys or RC (and the first one i brought immediately broke) so I've always got Lego as it was consistent and it's something my family could afford to get me without being too expensive. I had a budget of usually 90-120 but would usually go under and favour buying multiple sets rather than just one big set.
I enjoy building Lego and finding new techniques (thats why i love Speed Champions) and collect Star Wars, Ninjago, 3in1 and Technic but I've stopped moc building and only just collect sets and Display them now ofc i play with them. So I'm after stuff like UCS, Icons etc.
I also need to start some photography to capture my dioramas/displays lol.
Since 1999 I restarted to collect lego, especially with Star Wars, took my lego out of their storage. Rebuilt some and restarted to collect found lots of sets at my local flea market not only star wars but johnny thunder egyptians tombs, lego western, indiana jones harry potter, city, castle, space, pirate. DC, Marvel.
Love to build stuff, modify sets (especially city)
Im 52 I still collect Lego anything that can interest me. Love doing MOC
I never played with Lego much growing up. For some reason it seemed like more of a boys thing.
I’m not 36 and collect dolls, Care Bears and Lego’s and I’m living my best kidult life ❤ I never want to stop playing with toys.
I also accept being the “weird women” who plays with toys!
35 years old. Returned 8 years ago to Lego and initially collected just UCS. Now I buy every Icons/Ideas/Star Wars sets that I like. My wife is fine with it and friends etc. mostly don’t care. But nobody makes fun about it. When people like Henry Cavill etc. also collect it, it is already popovulture and „cool“
I thought this would be about how LEGO is the most expensice brick toy yet doesn‘t deliver on quality and quantity. I‘m honest about liking brick toys, but I‘m very critical about LEGO as company. There‘s better options out there nowadays.