Lego to cut 1400 jobs.

[Jan SobieskiParticipant 28791]

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-41160743

Why post this? Legos are middle class luxury goods. I wonder if this is a leading economic indicator?

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[GregB0Participant]

They are also used by more than STEM/STEAM students, children with Autism and other developmental & communication issues use them during therapy. Therapies include learning both individual and group behavioral skills.

Lego’s never were just toys for rainy days spent indoors.

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[Joey AlfioParticipant]

UBI here we come.

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[Faust For ScienceParticipant 22521]

Legos are likely one of the most inventive toys in human history. It is hard to mess up the formula for Legos. Provide toy building blocks for children to use to build larger toys with. Legos are one of the few toys that transcends most cultures. I wonder where the market is lowering for them?

Joey Alfio wrote:

UBI here we come.

What is “UBI”?

[Anonymous 43]

lego has a new product that will teach coding and automation. This is not the mindstorms robotics sets, something different.

lego boost

I umm went to Lego University to learn Lego based lessons. There is a whole Lego education side for teachers and home schoolers, different than the stuff you see in failmart. I wanted to do something like that in my classroom, but was denied, not fair that my class has legos and no one else has it.

I almost said out loud, since when is life fair and equal for everyone. Then I remembered to keep my mouth shut.

[MarriedNotBuriedParticipant 136]

I was a huge childhood fan of Lego. Who ever is running the company now is doing it wrong in my opinion.

Lego used to be about building from a base set of pieces to create anything. Now it is all about licensing movies, tv shows, and video games to make specialized sets than can build only 1 thing. The sets have 10 to 20% non-standard custom pieces. Heaven help you if you lose one of those. The kit can’t be built again.

It used to be you could dump all your Lego pieces into a big tub, and easily build from the tub because the sets all use the same standard pieces. Now you need to keep the sets all separated so you can find the damn tiny custom parts the new sets require. I have stopped buying Lego because they have destroyed the modular nature of the system for the flash-bang of licensed crap.

/RANT

[Jan SobieskiParticipant 28791]

I can hear the sound of digging through the box right now. Thanks.

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[MarketWatcherParticipant]

Jan Sobieski wrote:

Legos are middle class luxury goods. I wonder if this is a leading economic indicator

Good question, I pondered the same issue. I came to the conclusion that iPads and other electronic devices are pulling kids away from traditional play. When I was a kid the rule was to be inside before the street lights came on, but now I never see kids playing outside. Sad.

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MarketWatcher wrote:

Jan Sobieski wrote:

Legos are middle class luxury goods. I wonder if this is a leading economic indicator

Good question, I pondered the same issue. I came to the conclusion that iPads and other electronic devices are pulling kids away from traditional play. When I was a kid the rule was to be inside before the street lights came on, but now I never see kids playing outside. Sad.

I agree with this. While many of the toys were used in classrooms and rehabs as mentioned, this is the biggest decline of intellectual toys. They are forgotten, because they do not blink or make make noises the way that a smart phone or tablet does. This kids are given these devices by their single parent mothers, who rather the kid be quiet and leave them alone, than to be an actual parent and care for the kid or about their future. Women have sabotaged the future generations out of their greed, destroying the childhood of millions of children, just for a check, money they did not earn, just because they can spread their legs. These women are not just destroyers of families, but they are corrupting and breaking down the future as well.

[It’sallbsParticipant]

Everyone had Lego when I was a child -was brilliant.

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[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

Faust For Science wrote:

I wonder where the market is lowering for them?

Easy answer—legos are going the same way as erector sets, tinker toys and Lincoln logs. You see these toys require thought, creativity, imagination, patience and work. These are qualities our kids no longer possess–therefore the demand for these sorts of toys vanishes. All the kids can handle are little electric screens that go beep/boop.

[Anonymous 54]

Young boys have been feminised.
They now have no interest in biulding things.

Enjoy your future liveing out in the elements bitches!!!

[Secret Agent MGTOWParticipant 22514]

Go to bricklink.com

You can search and buy any lego piece in any quantity you want.

It is like ebay/amazon for lego bricks. Only lego no other knock offs.

People sell custom models there as well, in all various building themes.

It was a site put together by and for adult fans of lego. afol’s

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[Secret Agent MGTOWParticipant 22514]

Well, if the parents do not expose them to lego, they won’t get the learning benefits.

Women want everything, but want responsibility and accountability for nothing.

[Joey AlfioParticipant]

Faust For Science wrote:

What is “UBI”?

Universal Basic Income.

Secret Agent MGTOW wrote:

Well, if the parents do not expose them to lego, they won’t get the learning benefits.

And why teach western kids to learn or be be creative at all for a chance at a higher education? We can always import Asians for that like we’re doing right now. My job is filled with them! Westerners are not taught to think critically nor to appreciate science as their forefathers had done.

The great debate in the West right now is who can identify as the next weird gender while Asians are studying their ass off back home to make some good money over here.

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[KevinStylesParticipant 2580]

Lego was on the brink of collapse a while ago. Then they got into the licensed sets and had been rolling in money since taking that risk. Curious that they’re having issues again. I saw they just announced this gigantic starwars set with 7500 pieces that’s like 800 bucks for the premium customer. Wonder if legos are just crossed that expense line that starts to have negative impact on overall sales because perception is that Legos are too expensive now.

[Can’t Stump TrumpParticipant]

KevinStyles wrote:

Wonder if legos are just crossed that expense line that starts to have negative impact on overall sales because perception is that Legos are too expensive now.

I believe this is the most accurate assessment. Children are naturally creative before they get brainwashed by electronics, and I’ve never known a kid who didn’t like LEGOs. But compare the price tags to 20 years ago. A standard creator set with close to 1000 pieces would got for about 30 bucks; now a set with that many pieces goes for about 100 bucks. That’s not just inflation.

Married not Buried made a great point about how modern LEGOs are different from old school LEGOs with such a huge number of specialized custom pieces. I suspect this may have something to do with the rising production costs. The standard 4×2 brick is cheap and easy to mass produce.

EDIT: I searched for “most expensive LEGO” and found this. I like LEGOs as much as anyone, but that’s a ton of money to spend on a toy.

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[PrincekieParticipant 1042]

Back in the 80s, when I was just a small princekie, Lego was the thing. I spent endless hours building castles, cranes and all manner of creations. If I wanted to get more creative, I would get out my one and only Meccano set, and build more interesting creations.

I didn’t have a computer. TV wasn’t in my bedroom, and with four channels that were primarily for “grown ups” I certainly wasn’t glued to watching television.

The dumbing down of society has really set in, I really do believe. Instead of intelligent kids, with independent creative minds, TPTB have helped to promote a western society full of ignorant zombie kids, hooked on smartphones, tablets and crap TV who want the latest logos to impress their equally brainwashed zombie friends.
Building Lego creations would be too taxing for the kids of today.

Sad.

[OldBillParticipant]

MarriedNotBuried wrote:

Lego used to be about building from a base set of pieces to create anything. Now it is all about licensing movies, tv shows, and video games to make specialized sets than can build only 1 thing.

Bingo. Give the man a cigar.

I had Legos and Erector/Meccano as a kid. At the time all of them strongly encouraged what is known as “free build”. You were given lots of pieces, shown a few examples in a picture book (plus, in the case of Erector/Meccano, a few intermediate builds), and then told to use your imagination to build whatever you wanted.

That concept died out decades ago with “playsets” and licensing. Now, kids buy a kit to build what’s shown on the box and only what’s shown on the box. Then, once they build it, it sits on the shelf gathering dust.

Once, Lego fostered creativity. Today it teaches conformity.

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[Jan SobieskiParticipant 28791]

My first set was a fire truck that had the men that broke apart at the waist. Damn.

I built warships, that assaulted forts built out of my encyclopedias.

Girls were playing with dolls, I was conquering the known world.

Then the playmobile guy’s were giants.

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