Thread 11490449

>>11490449 (OP)
>spend childhood hiding my lego collection and never telling anyone about it so won't get bullied for being a nerd that plays with toys
>become adult and suddenly lego is super popular with normies and cute girls want a boyfriend to build legos with
It's not fair

>>11490472
>suddenly lego is super popular with normies and cute girls want a boyfriend to build legos with
Because Lego is now a status symbol and a designer item, not a toy. At least, that's how Lego wants its adult products to be viewed.

expensive uninteresting sets to me, the cool sets aren't compatible with mini figures so whats the point, no military style sets, not interested in the manbaby ninjago/disney sets, not a very creative guy and don't want to build my own original sets because they'll look like shit, not very interested in using a building toy to build something from an instruction manual. I don't understand why you would buy a creative DIY toy and just build from a manual, i don't really understand lego at all for this reason.
i saw a youtuber rate a lego set on "build enjoyability" and it made me laugh because all of them are just following a manual i dont really understand

Too expensive
Doesn't interest me
Not enough room

>>11490449 (OP)
Got tired of their ever decreasing quality over the years. Poor clutch, inconsistent color, parts that crack after a single use like wedge plates or 99% of the reddish brown parts catalog. I'd rather give money to the bootleggers if I'm going to get such low quality shit.
Also fuck their faggot pandering.

Bionicle was what I enjoyed. Without new bionicle sets I have no need to purchase other sets to go with them.

>>11490449 (OP)
I only started collecting them again recently, but am fucked since I only have interest in pre 2000s sets.

>>11490472
I raped 7 times a black person five days ago last year.

>>11490472
>become adult and suddenly lego is super popular with normies and cute girls want a boyfriend to build legos with
And? Just get a zoomer gf

>>11490567
Agreed on all. I'll still grab the occasional minifig but as far as buying sets and building mocs, I'm done. Most disheartening thing was picking up a set from the shelf that I hadn't touched in a while and finding 90% of the clip pieces had cracked.

>>11490567
Brown parts are good now, they rixed the problem around 2019

>>11490472
>>spend childhood hiding my lego collection and never telling anyone about it so won't get bullied for being a nerd that plays with toys
your insecurity was your downfall. You could still be a lego chad

>>11490449 (OP)
>shit-tier quality plastics where nearly everything is prone to developing hairline cracks and has no color consistency
>all those fucking stickers, Jebus Christ
>and IF something is printed you can bet your ass that it's done poorly, especially when printed on dark parts
>a lot of sets don't feel like something meant to be taken apart (or even played with) anymore, with their color-puke inside the models, the overinflated parts count, building techniques that overly rely on stuff like brackets and curved pieces, nearly every stud getting covered with tiles, etc. - it just doesn't feel like Lego anymore and more like a model kit made of bricks
>TOO MANY GODDAMN LICENSES that more or less block original themes and also somewhat kill Lego's own identity, borderline turning it into "The Simpsons of toys" where a celebrity appearance/license was once seen as novel and adhered to the world it got thrown into but now it's just "PERSON/THING! BUT YELLOW/LEGO! PRAISE IT!"
>everything that could've been a neat one-year-theme gets turned into a Ninjago wave instead
>agenda-pushing garbage like Dreamzzz or the recent Friends
>all the other questionable shit they pulled in recent years, be it the Osprey controversy, all those frivolous c&d letters, lawsuits and actions "to protect teh brand!!1!", the handling of G2 Bionicle and, if Christian Faber is to be believed (who I don't doubt is), Hero Factory and the entire CCBS, etc.

>>11490643
I see

>>11490449 (OP)
I shifted to other brands because Lego stopped using pre-built heads and such. Then Lego kept locking small cool builds to large sets which are expensive

Minifigs are just Funko Pops

>>11490567
This. Rising prices paired with lowering the quality finally took me out of collecting Lego. Cracked slopes, heavily scratched clear panels right out the box and sticker miss-cut piss me off to this day.
Lego brags how they get record sales year after year, fuck those greedy bastards.

>>11490449 (OP)
>expensive
>dont have the time
>dont have the space
that being said that soundwave looks cool

>>11490449 (OP)
The closest I got was probably the Animal Crossing sets, but I didn't like their choice of villagers or how the fruit trees looked.
There were also some minifig blindbag characters that interested me, but the randomness and being late to it bothered me.

>>11490449 (OP)
they seem much lower quality than they were when I was a kid, I looked at buying a few sets in the last few years and every one of them had stickers; when I was a kid I did not have a single Lego set that had stickers, everything was printed. And anons constantly complain the plastic quality is worse.

>>11490799
>the plastic quality
Lego is cutting costs with experiencing record profits, year after year. Also, they are working on a new biodegradable material, which gonna make their bricks even worse.

It's way too fucking expensive nowadays. I know it was never a cheap toy/hobby, but it really says something that you could walk into the toy aisle in any Walmart and Lego is the only thing that's locked up.

I just fucking hate Denmark and refuse to knowingly buy any of their products, that's all.

Cost/quality ratios. Prices keep going up and QC keeps getting worse. That plus licensed sets completely dominating the scene while original/classic series are getting rarer by the year.

>>11490799
Old sets had stickers, too.
However, it was most of the time either something overly specific or something you just couldn't pull off with prints like all those holographic effect stickers, the thermoreactive ones on the UFO sets or the metal surfaces for the Insectoids crystals.

>>11490812
>Well with those prices going up, manufacturing costs going up, costumer retention going up, quality of materials going up, brand recognition going up, it's all bound to go down once WW3 starts no thanks to Trump and his pesky tariffs contributing to just everythin going up.

>>11490449 (OP)
I have a few lego plants. I just dont find any satisfaction in Lego anymore. I can 3d print most stuff i want and I dont really care for my models to be blocky representations. I know some people like it but I dont. I'd prefer to just buy an expensive figure over an expensive Lego set.

>>11490449 (OP)
"Adult" fans of LEGO are embarrassed and ashamed of playing with LEGO which is why they do as much as they can to disguise the fact that it's LEGO (hiding the studs under tiles, overly detailed builds, etc.)

lego is pozzed trash for browns and manchildren

>>11490826
>>11490936
Athena.

>>11490449 (OP)
Used to collect star wars exclusively from like 2004-2010. Got into collecting SHF instead and now lego is too expensive for what you get and I have no room to display them. If I were rich I would be collecting again, especially UCS

>>11490449 (OP)
Like a lot of people I owned a bunch as a kid, had mostly the small sets that came with a minfigure and a small build like a vehicle. Had some large containers with generic bricks too and built random stuff. When I grew out of it I never really wanted to come back and get more. Lego isn't something that I'd display cause I don't think it looks good or meshes with the aesthetic I want in a room. So after I'd hypothetically build some large set I'd have to store it somewhere. There's just other stuff I'd rather have.

>>11490826
Athena post

It's just shit made for adults who want expensive paperweight nowadays. No more cool ships or playsets with a cool original theme, it's all just licensed shit.

>>11490449 (OP)
I don't have time to put together sets and the time I do have I don't want to spend it putting together sets. And they're overpriced.

>>11491116
Chungus.

Not interested in building stuff

>>11490449 (OP)
picrel, I found it limiting and just too expensive. I've seen stuff like lego star wars become overpriced and devolve from it's zenith in 2013 into the modern style and I just don't like it.

>>11490449 (OP)
Because LEGO is the most Reddit thing that I can think of in the toy world.

It lacks the versatility and functionality of Erector sets or the accuracy of plastic or diecast models all while being more expensive, not to mention the political moves that LEGO have made as a firm too, which, frankly should be left out of the toy industry, regardless of the whether those decisions are left or right leaning, just leave kids be while they are still impressionable.

>>11490449 (OP)
I loved Lego growing up and even into my early adulthood. After awhile I realized Legos are limiting what I actually want to make. I'd want to build a robot but it wouldn't look quite right. Or make a cool landscape, but again not 100% satisfying.
Someone may say I wasn't using my imagination enough. Maybe. I realized I'd rather spend time 3D modeling or making it another way to fully realize my concept. Therefore I stopped buying and building with Lego. I don't mean this in like a 'I grew out of it', I mean as in I need a medium with more fidelity and tools. Also the set prices were getting absurdly expensive. I can't imagine what they are like today.

>>11491404
Perhaps you should look at the stuff sold to railway modellers for landscape stuff. They even have electromagnetic roadways which cars can travel on now.
>>11491395
/thread However, what are your thoughts on the model train industry?

Not enough themes that appeal to the masculine mind. Like everything else today, Lego is catering to women and onions boys.

I build real models

If i wanted a tie fighter or x wing i'd just buy the bandai kit, and i have, and they look excellent.

Lego has started on a disturbing trend of funko-ization of minifigure collecting, and licensed themes overwhelming what made lego great

>>11491413
>Real models
>Snapshit
Lol LMAO even

>>11491409
Expensive, some of it send worthwhile, but not Lionel, fuck them.

>>11491422
>Send
Seem

>>11491418
If gundams are too easy because they are "snapshit", then what is lego?

>>11491429
Also snapshit, the only difference is how the parts connect. Seriously, get a real model kit and then tell us about your building skills. It isn't rocket science.

Before you get your knickers in a twist, just get an Airfix, Academy, Revell, Tamiya or Zvezda 1/72 plane or tank kit, learn to airbrush and to weather. And how to use waterslide decals too, since you guys just get stickers.

>>11491451
The kit in the picture literally has weathering (panel line tamiya), airbrushing, and waterslide decals.

>>11491457
Okay, then you're cool then, just most people do the whole build OOB, which is simple, but leaves a bit to be desired, in my opinion. Ever try the Gashapon kits from F-Toys or CafeReo?

Excuse the sperg out, I have had a butt if a rough day, but tomorrow some goodies will be arriving.

>>11491463
No, but i have done super minipla in the past, because for a while it was the only way to get a palm sized gaogaigar, before the RG

>>11491463
>Butt if a bad day
Bit ofa bad day

>>11491472
I see, that sounds neat. I am going to buy some Valom WWI fighters as part of my next purchase (the 1:144 range, which means that they will be 1.5" long and 2-3" wide).

What are your thoughts on the Hasegawa VF-1 kits? I think I that I might get a 1/48 one eventually. They also have a Xabungle range.

>>11491413
Gundam is for gays.
Not that Lego isn't also faggot shit but they haven't outright made yurislop.
Besides, the only cool gundams are the zakus, all the regular ones look identical.

>>11491481
I don't know anything about planes or macross. If i were to choose non bandai, they'd 100% be moderoid gridman.

Currently i'm reading an advanced south korean book to get good, before i get into other brands.

I bought a ton of pla plate last week, and scribers.

>>11491484
Ok but bandai has like 20 other brands

I build the small matchbox size ones mainly,but i've also done the big tie fighters before.

>>11491517
Not my model

Mine is broken from a move.

>>11490449 (OP)
For one, too expensive.

I got out of it when they started doing licenses in the late 90s(?)--they got too focused on external IPs vs when it used to be their original IPs: Pirates, Space, Castle.

The licensed IP stuff always tended to have a lot of custom pieces that only worked in the way they were intended which was a bit of a turn off to creativity.

>>11491517
I wish bandai released more. I'd love to make dioramas from the clone wars but we can't get a full range of vehicles at 1/144. instead they make a handful and thats it. Like I understand star wars models will never be as popular as military scale models but clone wars stuff could definetely sell

>>11491515
Nice. I have a set of jeweller's files and more paints on the way, plus a couple of plastic kits. Next will be a good airbrush (rather than my Harbor Freight special), plus either the WWI shit or a Tu-144 (Concorde if designed on vodka).

>>11491522
I thought that Revell had some stuff, but it is all in a funny scale.

>>11491530
They are all mismatched which is very annoying. Like AT-TE being 1/98 while an AAt being 1/50 while the LAAT is 1/78
It's so annoying

>>11491538
Yeah, the line seems to be made for children, really, which is a strange as Revell has released some very nice stuff over the years (e.g Hindenburg, 1/48 SR-71, etc), just they have a habit of being incredibly retarded, especially with the 1/72 P-51.

I used to love lego but they decided to not release anything I'd want. they erased lego space in favor of star wars. they erased my favorite lego color. they started to add fucking esg shit of all things into sets.
it's either crap aimed towards zoomers like hidden shite, ninjago, nexxo knights, or dreamzz, or ip trash that imploded years ago.
have I mentioned that the qc got worse in recent years? or how it has become crazy overpriced and they keep releasing fucking statues and static models of real items like cameras, shoes, telephones and such instead of toys and playsets?
or just insanely expensive sets for afols.
there were 3 sets I wanted this year:
blacktron ship, which is missing the container, the nose flap is crap, the satellite module is crap. I can deal with the price, but the set was a letdown.
the haunted house, which is just too small and costs 20-25 bucks more than it should. super overpriced.
forever batmobile: I don't like the build, don't even care for the price. they didn't put half the effort needed into it.
at this point the only thing that'd bring me back into lego is if they rereleased the old sets I missed out on. which they won't because the missing colors, star wars, destroyed molds, and they can't hear me over their 2 billion usd net profit. oh and they built their empire on fomo.

>>11491733
>which is just too small and costs 20-25 bucks more than it should. super overpriced.

Americans should be paying more for toys

>>11491733
>complains about Lego's Hollywood IPslop and adult oriented sets
>wants to buy Lego's Hollywood IPslop and adult oriented set
Anon, have at least some consistency. Batman is as bad as Starwars.

For me, the biggest loses are Adventurers, Castle and Pirates. Canceled Europa theme would be dope as fuck too. Lego is just not for me anymore.
Only cool sets are rarely in Icons and Bricklink Designers Program, both require humiliation ritual to buy antyhing.
>Bricklink: wait till the middle of the night to buy a set before it solds out in 15 minutes
>Icons: buy the set on specific date or yours will stay incomplete and miss GWP essetnial
This is why I'm not getting those.

>>11490449 (OP)
>DON'T
>why?

Largely this:
>>11490499
>expensive uninteresting sets to me

If I had kids and they wanted them, I could see getting into it, but as a widowed single adult collector, my action figures suffice.

Someone has given me a few random mini-figure sets (the cheapie, 75-100 pieces, $8-12 sets) and it was interesting for 10-15 minutes to put it together, but not something I would want to take apart and repeatedly assemble. They are stuck up on a different, high shelf and really no one coming over could even notice them unless I point them out.

>>11491742
Forgot about the Minifure Series
>keep scanning boxes like a retard for half an hour, because you want just this 1 specific fig, to find out that some mother fucking scalper did it already and took all the ones you wanted to sell them online 3x times the price.

>>11491409
Those are cool, I looked into that before. I think most of what I want to make would take up too much space too. Therefore, digitally designing things seemed to be best for me.
>>11491422
>but not Lionel, fuck them
Why is that? I only know a little about train modeling.

>>11491755
It is everything wrong with LEGO, except even more extreme. Lionel's prices are horrible and the quality control is near non-existent. You can attend USD 2000 on a single item and you will find a major manufacturing defect and have to return it. That is what happened to somebody that I know. If you buy a model train, the quality varies from model to model, but as a general rule, the Märklin and Roco/Fleischmann companies are good. If you are British, then add Accurascale and Rapido to the list, if you are American Rapido, Atlas and Athearn are your best bets. This applies to H0 and OO gauges, plus G, Gauge 1, N and Z, if you find something ask, though the train threads died some time ago.

>>11491733
>I used to love lego but they decided to not release anything I'd want.
i literally became a fan of Lego because they released everything i ever wanted
>tehcno fantasy (chima and nexo knights)
>epic minifigures (we had 2 lines last year - space and DnD)
>epic builds like mechs and stuff

We are built different.
but go on. Play a whiny contrarian
LEGO is literally the best fucking toy on this planet right now. No other options better than it.

if there are - go on name 10. I'll wait.

>>11491733
>it's either crap aimed towards zoomers like hidden shite, ninjago, nexxo knights, or dreamzz, or ip trash that imploded years ago.
>>11491742
>For me, the biggest loses are Adventurers, Castle and Pirates. Canceled Europa theme
OH NO
not a fucking cancelled EUROPA theme!!!

lmao
who the fuck cares
what a bunch of whiny boomers
Grow up loser

>>11491755
>>11491789
Lionel are also whores for ANY license. ANYTHING. They'd make a Star Wars train if they thought it would make money. I think they have already.

>>11491874
I know that The Bradford Exchange did, not sure about Lionel, but it subs life something that they would do. I will say that it all started with the Thomas and Polar Express licenses, which are not unwelcome in my opinion, but that is where the licensing should have ended.

>>11491877
>Subs life
Sounds like... I am already preparing lunch so I am thinking of submarine sandwiches.

>>11490449 (OP)
lack of interesting licensed sets, im buying my first sets now in adult age because theyve created one piece sets.

>>11490449 (OP)
the ones i like are insanely expensive and the ones that are affordable look like shit

>>11490499
>don’t want to build from an instruction manual
>don’t want to build your own original creation
what the fuck do you want then?

>>11491877
I remember glancing at the 2025 catalog and they were doing Star Trek TNG box cars and hoppers

>>11492058
Yep, which are being sold at extortionate prices as part of a monthly subscription plan.

Speaking of licensed stuff, have you seen Märklin's AC/DC range?

>>11490449 (OP)
I’m more into figures than vehicles or dioramas

>>11490449 (OP)
it has become too expensive

i remember buying like the space prison jet that costs me 15 dollars, now the equivalent of it would cost at least 100 dollars

>>11490449 (OP)
If I'm going to buy overpriced plastic, at least have it assembled and painted like Damashii, or cheap kits, but a pile of blocks that loosely resemble another IP? No thank you

>>11492251 (samefag)
If lego was cheap, I still would not like it too much because it's too pixelated, but lego is outrageously expensive

>>11492251
>>11492254
What if I want something that isn't gay and ugly like Gundam is? I'm not a yuritroon, Gundam has nothing to offer me.

>>11492331
>yuritroon
Stop watching Gcucks and watch Stardust Memory or Thunderbolt

>>11490643
Ok

>>11490449 (OP)
no particular reason
they are pretty high
but the space is more of an issue even without considering my other toys

You guys know this was a spam thread right? He just shits out nonsense questions or statements to fill up the catalog

>>11490449 (OP)
Expensive. I get the occasional speed champion of a car I like but that's it.

>>11493688
And yet there is actual discussion happening in this thread. Probably more discussion than in one of the threads that only exist to promote certain brands that are all started by the same retard.

>>11490449 (OP)
To those who don't collect Lego...

>>11491413
That's very gay

>>11490449 (OP)
I was mostly interested in Bionicle (and mostly just building my own guys at that) but they don't make it anymore. Plus I have other outlets for making stuff now that are way less limited.

>>11490449 (OP)
Played Lego a lot as a kid. Recently I moved into plastic models/GKs which scratch the same itch and lets me focus more on historic, military and anime subjects.

It has a pretty nice community, lets you collect a bunch of boxes and go to shows/events.

Dare I say cheaper too? Buying tools and paints puts the cost up a little but the price of individual kits seems about 3x cheaper than what I see Lego going for at the store.

>>11490499
Regarding the "Lego being the bitch of the license instead of vice versa":
the car decal on this one not being done as minifig pisses me off more than it probably should.

>>11495314
yes. even marvelslop characters like Drax can have incredibly soulful printing just by using Lego heads (in his case the skeleton head by far one of the best printed heads ever) instead of their in universe shit (skulls). it also has a lot of use outside that one specific character.

They should bring back Power miners

>>11490643
Based buckbreaker

>>11490449 (OP)
They've killed Bionicle and my interest alongside with it

>>11490643
>I raped 7 times a black person
Do you mean that you raped a black person 7 times, or that you raped 7 black people?

>>11495301
look into COBI

>>11490449 (OP)
Legos were just never for me.
>Don't like the blockiness of the designs
>Don't want to follow the instructions to build a kitified imagination toy
>Don't have the creativity/desire to freehand an imagination toy while still being constrained by bricks
>Don't care for the IPs they make now anyway
Knex might've scratched a certain itch, but I was never given any and never asked. Discovering model kits broke the loop since following instructions for a purpose-built thing felt less silly and some designs are also SUPER INTERESTING after puberty. I find myself wondering what it would've been like if I could have gotten my hands on a 3D printer as a kid. If I were to make something back then I think it would've been more my speed.

>>11490449 (OP)
Bought a few, but they're way too expensive, big, and they just kind of sit there once they're built. I don't really get the point of having tons of them.

Loved Lego as a kid but simply

>Vader's TIE Advanced is $1700 as Lego
>Vader's TIE Advanced is $99 as a highly detailed TVC ship figures can actually sit in

Why would I pay 17x more for something that looks like Atari 2600 and will break into pieces when I can get a solid detailed model?

>>11501334
>BUT YOU CAN TAKE THE LEGO MODEL APART AND BUILD SOMETHING ELSE!!1!
99% of the people who buy the $1700 Tie Fighter definitely didn't buy it to build something else out of it.

>>11492254
There are some good lego gundams

>>11490449 (OP)
I'd like to, but it's too much commitment. Costs too much money. Takes up too much space. Takes too much time to build and organize displays. A huge pain to keep dust-free. And to be honest, unless they're like really impressive scenix pieces I find large Lego displays to be sort of tacky in the first place.They're neat and I want to be into them, but just not for me I guess. I do still love all the sets I still have from my younger days though and occasionally someone will get me a set as a gift.

>>11490449 (OP)
I like things to look the way they're supposed to instead of being a bunch of blocky garbage. Plastic kits are also infinitely superior if I'm ever in the mood for putting something together.

>>11490449 (OP)
The price to autism ratio is to high for me to collect as an adult. Maybe when im like 50 ill get back into it.

>>11490577
This, but also most of the stuff oriented at adults is just IP whoring which is lame. The botanical sets are nice though. I got the succulents and plum blossom as gifts and bought the bonsai tree for my work desk.

>>11490449 (OP)
doesn't really do it for me. was into it as a kid 30 years ago, but current sets don't excite me. every time in the last decade ive bought one, i built it and thought "okay... now what"

lego was never a display toy to me. i'd build it, then break it down into bins until it was time to build something with the pieces. the fun is building, not collecting or displaying. i am not interested in accumulating a large brick collection for the occasional build sesh.

>>11490449 (OP)
>I last loved Bionicle
>coolest biggest Bionicle ever to that point required a few builds I was missing
>parents played Christmas so well, having me open the missing few, and then the big guy!
>dismantle the others, put all the unnecessary parts into a ziplock
>big dude is great. he can hit the family dog while she does dog stuff. she lays down and it's on to my baby brother

>done with him
>got a bag of Bionicle bits
>start putting together different schematics from different builds
>no longer toys, but machines for a human to gently impact and throw plastic discs; for help or for harm

>get bored, put it all down
>still new ideas, but meh

>do drugs
>girls
>college degree
>international travel
>???
>profit

And currently a sea captain working in Hawaii.

>>11502326
Put then together again captain or do something

>>11502336
I won't put them back together. My mother says my niece enjoys my wooden Thomas the Train trackset. Probably that bag of Bionicle is in a landfill.

To answer (you) and the OP, I don't collect anymore, because when presented with the choice to put them together again or something, I chose something.

Thank you, for listening to my TedTalk.

>>11502354
>>11502326
>log onto 4channel dot gov slash toy, an imageboard for discussion Children’s Toys
>“as a le adult, I don’t bother with children’s toys, as I have better things to do”
gr8 rageb8 m8, I r8 3/8

>>11490449 (OP)
I used to collect Bionicle and some minifigures back in the day, I still have them and I'm planning to build a big ass mecha. But for the current Lego sets I'm currently more interested in action figure stuff like Revoltech cause I love articulation more than anything, plus Lego nowadays is quite expensive and the buildings are not much of my interest.

>>11490449 (OP)
I've bought 2 sets in the 2020s - lion castle and el dorado fortress. I might buy the medieval market village before it retires. But let's be honest. There's nothing worth buying for the most part. Lego SUCKS. You get less for your money and the quality is down. I had a lego piece break in a brand new set. Their plastic just isn't hat it used to be. It's weaker now that they use their new environmental friendly crap. Also lego collecting for money is not very profitable. Lego inflated that market.

>go into Lego store
>oh wow this is all so cool
>look at prices
>turn 360 and moonwalk away
I love LOTR, but I’m not sure over £200 is acceptable for me to buy a single hobbit hole and a few dinky extra pieces. I like the mini figures, though, I enjoy the banshee.

>>11490449 (OP)
i don't have time to build. it's the same reason why i'm slowly beginning to get statuefags.

>>11490449 (OP)
I used to as a kid, but then LEGO killed LEGO Universe, which I really liked, and I've been boycotting ever since. Didn't even finish some of the new sets I'd gotten for Christmas that year.

>>11503848
If you want the market village, make your own out of basic bricks. It will be cheaper and more soulful. You can buy peasant minifig parts on PaB or Bricklink if you need to.

>Too expensive
>Too focused on licensed dioramas and minifigures of millenial IPs where the point seems to get a minifigure of X celebrity
>Don't give a single fuck about minifigures
>bonkle dead :(

Ninjago mechs look cool ad hell, but for some reason I cannot get interested enough, which is weird since of I had to create a theme I would be interested in it would be cool mechs with a similar level of "sculpting", maybe it's because they are minifigure scale

>>11491429
Gundam is literally just as easy as lego.
I also used to collect lego, but its so fucking expensive, I switched to Gundam to satasfy that lego set itch without the retarded prices, and gundam sets are often overpriced too.

>>11507268
Problem is Gundam doesn't make models of anything cool, just copypaste robots from LGBTQP+ anime.

>>11507285
literally bionicle for weebs

Because Legos are for kids. Like literal kids. Kids.

I kinda want to get back into legos, but the problem is I don't know where to start if I want to actually just build my own stuff. The newer sets look very good, albeit expensive, but the downside there is that they're so big and impressive that I would never ever want to disassemble them for parts. But the bucket of old legos from ~1996-2003 also isn't enough for me to make something with. I know there are sites to buy individual pieces, but I'm not going to plan out something to build in AutoCAD and then order the parts that way. Ideally I just want a good mix of stuff to use, and not just standard bricks but all the special pieces like hinges and clips and side-studded pieces etc.

>>11508222
>I kinda want to get back into legos
protip: don't

I miss the simpler doll house style play sets that used to make up the creator and city and various fantasy lines, but now its all just overly detailed dust collectors.

>>11508222
>I kinda want to get back into legos, but the problem is I don't know where to start if I want to actually just build my own stuff
>But the bucket of old legos from ~1996-2003 also isn't enough for me to make something with
Buy more buckets of old lego, the new stuff is overpriced and lower quality. It's lucky that you still have your old stuff. Go on Facebook Marketplace and search near you for Lego, there may not be anything great straight away but keep an eye on it. Check regularly because the good scores disappear quickly.
Anyway you'll probably want some bulk with a good amount of basic bricks. You might find some of the Minecraft sets second hand, those are good because they have a lot of basic bricks in useful colours (grey/brown/green).
Don't be afraid to haggle because most of these people don't know the real value of Lego, and often enough they overestimate it because they read some article about how old lego is super valuable and they think that applies to their rare vintage 2016 City sets. Use Bricklink's price guide to check the value of sets.
If you do end up needing some specific parts (eg minifigs) try Bricklink or Pick a Brick on the Lego website. Sometimes PaB has the best prices for specific parts (eg knight helmets/torsos, classic smileys).

>>11508575
Oh and if you don't have or want Zuckerbook, you can just make an account called Anon Smith to use the marketplace.

The price.
I preffer videogames

First try to think of stuff you want to build. Online, you can check what pieces/colors a set contains. Then you can buy sets that best fit the direction you want to go to. Start small and keep building. Starting with sets instead of buying individual pieces is the best way because you will try to make use of what you have and come up with creative ideas.

>>11490449 (OP)
Because Chinese bricks are 1/4 the price and better quality.

>>11508222
One word: Lepin.

Quality is better than new Lego and price is 1/4 what Lego charges.