The plot line of The Lego Movie (opening this weekend at a theatre near you) centers on the the evil Lord Business (voiced by Will Ferrell) that attempts to end "freestyle play" with a weapon that can glue Legos together. Weirder yet, he plans to do it on "Taco Tuesday."
Past the unfortunately heavy-handed depiction of business people as malevolent, does it strike anyone (besides Tim Manners) as ironic that, since 1998, Lego has "sidelined its freestyle play sets in favor of sets patterned on various movie properties" such as Star Wars, The Hobbit, Harry Potter and others.
Just a thought...
Yeah. As a buyer of such sets when my son was in grade school through middle, it certainly does. All we bought were kits that had directions on how to put them together. Same with Hot Wheels. When I tore apart all his track sets and built a massive track did start to have the same kind of fun we did as kids.
Posted by: LT | February 10, 2014 at 08:17