Do you like Lego, poll.

[Rachie]

So, my question is do you like Lego and similar building contrustion toolkits or shall I say toys etc. I was given a lego creator for Christmas. I really like it and a video camera can be made also from it. I have a video camera so it really sits well with me.

There is a lot of talk on the internet about autistics liking lego and similar building things. Now, I'm not quite sure if this true or not. I would say we are all different and have different likes and dislikes etc. May be a number a majority may like it etc, that could be a possibility. I wonder how it fits in as a trait the detail etc.

There are other similar building things like Mechano and they can be included as well.

The lego I was given had too many pieces for me. I like the small ones where I know i can complete without frustration. I would likely just leave anything complicated throw out or give to charity etc. For this morning I knocked on a neighbours door with my Lego asking them if they could buils it for me and I would give some money if they could. It is still with them, i'm hoping.

As a female say they wasn't used by girl's of my generation more for boys. I am not very used to them as well.

Been to Lego land to.

I like them but most would just frustrate me and it's no interest mine and never will be. Looks nice as decoration. I would get overwhelmed by them when are too hard for me. Although it would pass some time for sure. Jigsaws when too hard for me frustrate me end as well.

Like building kinder egg toys and built an easy robot, stretching my STEM, but I stop there.

I best vote for other I guess.

 

[thejuice]

I was lucky enough to inherit a basket of lego so my imagination was the limit. Otherwise, its a rip off.

 

[Misty Avich]

When I was a child I used to find building Lego difficult so my mum would build some buildings for me (as a bonding activity) and I would use them to play with the little Lego men.

We still have all the Lego but sadly it's in the attic at my parents house and nobody wants to go up there to get it down because it's right behind a huge cobweb that's bigger than a human and has lots of really ugly spiders in it.

 

[Shevek]

Before toy bricks locked together, blocks were a serious tool for masonry architects, and a great learning aid for youngsters. I detest Lego in its basic form, and even more when it comes as a set, rather than an open-ended creative tool. If you want a specific model, why would you want it with multiple seams and terrible surface definition? The motorized bits have left the younger generations terribly dependent on components, unable to work with separate mechanical parts to create movement. Healthy developmental play is about imagination, and Lego keeps trying to reserve that for their own employees, leaving the children frustrated and bored.

 

[Raggamuffin]

Used to enjoy Lego. I collected a lot as a child. Enough to fill a large crate full

I gave it as a birthday present to an ex's son. He's on the spectrum, and was 4 at the time. I knew full well that would be many years of joy and fun for him.

Ed

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

My son gave his brothers step son his lego's last year. My son is now a electro-mechanical technologist fixes robots
for a living.

 

[Metalhead]

I am not a fan of playing with the toys, but I do love the Lego movies.

Everything is awesome.

 

[Jumpinbare]

It's possible legos existed somewhere during my childhood, but I was not exposed to them until adulthood. IN MY DAY, it was Lincoln Logs, followed by Erector Sets.

 

[Crossbreed]

They were too expensive when I was a kid.
I use a limited set of Megabloks to create furniture for my 1:6 scale drawing studio, Studio 126.

Lego Sofa (w/Nichelle0 & Mike)

Programming has the same feel to it.

 

[SusanLR]

I've never had Legos. I don't think I would have enjoyed them as a child though.
Blocks and Erector Sets were the building toys of my time, as I see some other of us older kids had those also.

 

[velociraptor]

I had a wonderful time world building with my LEGOs as a kid. I got a tonne of them cheap at garage sales and thrift shop scores. I'm not so interested in the sets where you build specific things. Those are boring to me.

 

[Princess Viola]

I do like Lego but it's just too dang expensive these days, especially licensed sets.

Yeah 'Lego is expensive' is an age-old complaint but it feels different nowadays because it used to be like 'Yeah, they're expensive, but you're paying for quality' because all of the competing brands of plastic building block toys were just noticeably lesser quality than Lego was in various ways.

But nowadays, even if they're still not 100% identical in terms of quality, a lot of these other brands have improved massively plus they're often cheaper than Lego. And I'm not even just talking about known brands like Mega Bloks (although I think nowadays they're just called Mega with Mega Bloks being their 'for little kids' Lego Duplo competitor and their 'for older kids and teens and adults' is Mega Construx), there's tons of companies based in China that you'll never see on Western retail shelves (so you have to buy them online) that make sets that are like 90% of the quality of Lego.