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What is your LEGO hot take? Comment below!

[@BrickStopmotions]

My hot take: P2 clone helmet holes are not that bad; I barely notice them. Hot take 2: Printed waist capes would be fine if they just printed the sides of the legs... …but the backs... Ok, if they just dual molded the legs and printed the front... …but the insides of the legs... …and the white print would undoubtedly be so bad... … … Ok, forget it! Cold take: get RID OF printed waist capes and BRING BACK CLOTH!!

[@mpsuperstar88]

Hot take:make Lego flags

[@TheEggiestEgg_]

LEGO fortnite is good

[@sans7342]

Hot take 1: Lego themes with app functionality like Lego Super Mario are good and shouldn't receive as much hate as they do Hot take 2: Technic sets are HORRIBLE to build, building Lego sets is supposed to be fun but Technic sets are not, they take too long, even small ones

[@BrickStopmotions]

@@mpsuperstar88 Do you mean cloth, plastic (like they had a while ago), or irl flags?

[@xantho368]

Hot take: I want to see less licensed themes. Like get that themes like Star Wars and Marvel saved lego back in the day, but nowadays they're front and center, taking up all of the attention, while original themes are typically taking a back seat. This is despite the fact that some of the most popular lego themes are original ones Also, less of a hot take, but I really want to see the return of actual play sets. Sets with genuine play features, knobs, buttons, levers, that sort of thing. So many sets released today are geared more towards display - regardless of theme (I wish would lego bring back a castle theme too, tho that's just a pipe dream)

[@XaviHaunts]

This one I agree on too, we NEED more original and unique themes

[@pixlplague]

Sooooo true! Glad to see I'm not alone.

[@cakerymeringue621]

Amusing how technic kind of fits into here: more licensed vehicles with less features

[@brohamster]

I want castle back 😢

[@Novaprime64]

Honestly as someone that has recently begun frequently going to a Lego big store, watching what people have been buying, at least at the location I frequent, it’s close to even between City, Friends, Star Wars, and Marvel, followed by Creator and Harry Potter, technic, and then ninjago, monkie kid, minecraft, Mario, and Icons. The theme I see the least bought so far is the brand new sonic stuff, as well as the few Disney sets there are. And then Duplo but that’s it’s own little thing offset from the other themes

[@PersonMcFaceFace]

The heavy focus on licenced themes is what kills it for me. There used to be so many original themes that would come out each year (Power Miners, Space Police, Agents, etc.), but now we only have a few per decade

[@Nae_ex]

I would argue it wasn't licensed themes, but instead Ninjago, Lego City, and Lego Friends. These themes are so popular that they indirectly make other "successor" themes, like Lego Chima, fail miserably.

[@polus134]

Lego rockraiders

[@RyoCanCan]

@@polus134 Rockraiders was so good. Roboriders were so awesome too.

[@lagumlemoni331]

If we get a giant UCS style pirate ship I'll cream

[@promaster4758]

Yeah Playmobil also started doing that a few years ago, at the end that is where they get more money so they continue with the formula. It is sad.

[@tishhawkeye4361]

Hot take - the lego board games were really fun and the series should have been continued :)

[@jeffbagels7866]

That's not a hot take that's just facts

[@potatoofmemes]

​@@jeffbagels7866agreed

[@JesusChrist-qs8sx]

Still mad I never got ahold of the pirate chess set

[@masoncfox]

had those for christmas as a kid, I played those games with my family more than actual board games

[@Caldoric]

Coldest take ever.

[@SHDW-nf2ki]

Whenever someone says "the larger sets aren't for play" I flash back to watching my kid cousin pick up his star destroyer I bought him for his birthday and helped him built. He hefted it over his head, and javelined it into his sister. It was the most fun we'd had in years.

[@aksiegrist1195]

The retirement of the buildable figures like HeroFactory and Bionicle was a terrible choice, especially since they fit in with so many other themes like how they did in StarWars and Chima, The cancelation of Chima was also a mistake.

[@bukachell]

Dude I loved the bionicle hero factory and I never understood the hate towards it personally

[@matthewkuscienko4616]

​@bukachell I'm right there with you. From what I heard, it sounds like the people that hated Bionicle did so because they preferred the classic Lego sets with bricks rather that the extension of their Technic line that Bionicle is; this is reflected in the most recent Bionicle products we got as well, those being 2 different brick-built versions of Tahu -- one of which being barely bigger than a standard mini figure and having a pretty goofy design with googly eyes, and the other being an upscaled version of the toa of fire that was quite possible and was depicted surfing of lava like we see on the original set's packaging. Unfortunately, it seems to be largely because of the prominence of fans that share this opinion that was what ultimately killed the constraction line, probably because most people think of sets with bricks when the think of Lego, and Bionicle -- as well as other constraction lines -- do not tend to incorporate into their builds. That being said, Bionicle was a very unique line that had lots of great characters and an epic story to go along with it, so it would definitely be nice to see it make a return one day

[@James.B.Russell]

@@matthewkuscienko4616 Yeah compare the CCBS Star Wars line to the modern constraction Marvel sets (Iron Man, Spider-Man, Wolverine, etc.). Very different approaches to constraction. If Bionicle were to return by some miracle, and used bricks like the Marvel constraction, I think some fans would like it for the nostalgia, but ultimately reject it for similar reasons to their rejection of the 2015-2016 CCBS Bionicle; it simply isn't pure Technic anymore. I would love them to bring back a Technic version of Bionicle. Essentially, go back to the basics of what it was, which Technic is missing; not just vehicles, but Technic characters and Technic animals. If not Bionicle, at least give us that. Bionicle fans would latch onto that just fine.

[@JamesTDG]

Oh for sure, I LOVED those unique parts, all they needed to do was integrate ways to add standard lego elements and turn bionicle figs into mech suits for minifigs

[@raresr9698]

"B-b-b-b-but bionicles are just goofy alien robots, and, uhhh, cheema= furries on drugs, ninjago bettah" -👶

[@rogercheetoofficial]

I wish they'd update and rerun much older non-licensed sets that have been out of print for a long time even if they've discontinued the theme or something like that, it'd be a nice organic way to make some pieces less rare and they can show how they've innovated their manufacturing and construction techniques

[@vidcas1711]

I’d love to see old city-themed sets from the late-90s and early 2000s get released again.

[@Joe_Potts]

Warm-Take: You can usually fit smaller LEGO boxes inside larger ones for easier storage. Granted if you have a LOT of smaller sets this will not always work, and sometimes boxes may not fit perfectly so try not to warp them by shoving them inside each other, but more often than not, you can save a lot of space with this method.

[@pi172]

oh, do other people not do that? lol. i always thought this was already the deluxe way of storing boxes compared to folding them open or straight up trashing them.

[@lukea1533]

Another warm take: You can also flatten Lego boxes by cutting both ends of them. Just gotta refold and tape them again, they are boxes after all.

[@archittles9856]

Another warm take: you can just chuck out the boxes

[@homelander7694]

I bought the Daily Bugle a couple weeks ago, still got the box, not thinking in getting rid of it. When I buy more sets, I will keep their boxes inside the Daily Bugle box 👍🏼

[@JamesTDG]

Hotter take: Break down your boxes for easier storage

[@BENch_Gaming44444]

I absolutely agree about throwing boxes away. They just take up space and if I am going to buy a set, then I am buying it to keep it, not to sell it.

[@user-kg5jo4cz8g]

EXACTLYYY. as a kid, why would i keep the boxes if i thought that i was going to keep the set forever?

[@mo-s-]

or flatten & put in a drawer

[@iamfuckingyourwaifuandther2743]

Well some of the boxes are so nice they are worth keeping for the more expensive set. I hate boxes are basically art, it makes it really hard to throw away :/

[@oxolotleman7226]

Only box I've kept is the Bugatti Chiron. If I had other similar caliber sets I'd probably keep the boxes from those as well. I don't know if I'll ever need it but it feels wrong to get rid of such a nice box

[@BENch_Gaming44444]

@@oxolotleman7226 fair enough. I was mostly talking about keeping the box to every set you get. It makes sense to keep the box to your more expensive sets or ones that mean a lot to you.

[@darkmyro]

I think that they should release a huge Minifigure collection with tons of torsos and legs and arms and heads like they do with the creator sets and the brick sets.

[@aidianajones]

Agreed. I'd also love to see a collection of clear display pieces. 1x2 bricks the jumping display pegs from the CMFs, those long pole things (idk what they're called but they have 2 studs on one end, a long pole and one stud near the other end?). They're really useful for displays and it's hard to get a lot of them.

[@QuattroSG]

They used to sell big mini figure sets when I was a kid, especially for the city theme so you can get residents for city builds I guess and you’d see cheap small sets based around mini figures too.

[@Mimic_Gaming]

The sticker placement dude is 100% a gundam fan

[@ShadowScrub]

Gundam fan here, I'd much rather paint a model than deal with color-correcting stickers. Marking stickers and decals are alright.

[@prevaileternal6932]

Hot take: I really enjoy the physics of Legos crashing against things and then rebuilding the parts that fall off. I especially do this with vehicle sets like cars.

[@phen314]

I had an open-wheel race car Technic set when I was a kid that had more than a few broken pieces from me doing this.

[@sagemanomari]

Its a really good hot take

[@heikkiaho6605]

you sound like 10-year-old me

[@GideonHannsz-ht3qm]

And then you would build parts that fell of your own way with different bricks and it becomes a more unique build

[@XaviusNight]

My ideas: 1) LEGO should begin re-adding older colors and pieces back as individually purchasable items (like an online pick-a-brick), especially re-doing old colors in new parts designs. Colors like Sand Purple and Sand Red, parts like older diving armor accessories, remakes of older Bionicle parts but in new colors - all of these would be amazing. 2) LEGO as a company doesn't do *enough* recolors. Gimme the parts to make one of the Exo-Force mechs in a different color scheme, or the parts to redo a Tie-Fighter with an alternate palette. These would be things that a lot of people would love, but never get enough of. 3) They should make a digital Build-A-Minifig purchasing option whenever a new theme comes out that is just options related to that theme, and keep them available until the parts run out.

[@oopsispilledmymilk7300]

Man, I miss sand red

[@VestedUTuber]

Minifigs are already available through the online Pick-A-Brick system (which, yes, actually does exist. It's kinda hard to find on LEGO's website, you have to open the drop-town menu and select "pick and build"). As for everything else, the problem with those ideas is that they don't work with LEGO's production model. Pick-A-Brick is entirely sold from excess inventory, and it's not financially viable to produce parts and colors specifically just for that service. LEGO actually used to produce service packs back in the 90s and early 2000s, some of which included parts that weren't available any other way, and I wouldn't be surprised if that contributed to LEGO's financial difficulties.

[@mrsmartypants4541]

Stud shooters ruin the fun of a gun piece. It completely breaks the immersion of a piece and won't let you customise it. I loved putting different pieces on Star Wars blasters to turn them into different things, their barrels are perfect for different kinds of muzzles and allow the claw lock pieces to add flat 1/1 pieces to them acting like magazines or flashlight or whatnot. The same can be said about the megaphone piece which acted as a Star Wars blaster in my days. It allows for creativity and imagination. Stud shooters are just chunky and ugly

[@err0rWasTaken]

based opinion honestly, I used to love putting screwdrivers, lightsaber hilts, etc for attachments on my guns xD

[@pizzaipinya2442]

When I was a kid it really frustrated me to play with the stud shooters cause I always got the stud shot by mistake and then had to search thr damn stud xd

[@Chillz011]

I think that they should keep the stud shooter so it still works and has playability, but add studs on it or something to add attachments.

[@grilledoven]

My "hot take" is that lego should bring back sets with full hero factory/ bionicle parts. Lego could totally get some good sale from new sets with those themes, even if there isn't any story to go with them. At least they have those buildable "action" figures that aren't as good as the classic ones though. I was born 4 years after the first bionicle set and story released and still really like them.

[@legodj831]

No. Nonononono

[@VestedUTuber]

@@legodj831 If you're going to say no, at least give a reason why. Otherwise your input is kinda pointless.

[@dakootersexpressossfm]

i would kill for some of the 2008 limb parts with the newer reinforced sockets ESPECIALLY in lime

[@geologyjoerocks]

I USED to mix all the bags’ pieces together before building, but it was too hard to find things. I did like how it slowed me down, but I would take up to 5 minutes to find pieces. It’s not worth it imo.

[@lukecantwell233]

Your sins have been forgiven

[@gwit4051]

yea, it just makes things frustrating, even if it does technically lengthen the activity. if people want to spend a longer time on a set then just get a bigger set.

[@supercat765]

If I was to mix the bags I think I would sort the bags as I open them. either into categories or by individual brick type. though that sounds like more effort than i would want before placing 2 bricks together no matter how cool it may imagine to see the neatly organized parts laid out and ready to build.

[@Quiet_Jay_C]

Knock-off sets usually don't care about sorting pieces, so digging through the mountains of pieces was all the childhood to me. Yes, I'm so poor I usually buy knock-offs. Yes, I spent less money, while still having fun with copies of official sets. Yes, I love digging through the mountains of pieces. I've no such weaknesses.

[@geologyjoerocks]

@@supercat765 That’s true!

[@Allthenamesweretaken17]

HT1:Put MORE spare pieces into bags, (studs, minifig accessories, small blasters, 1*1 or 1*2 tiles...) HT2: Make military themed sets. People (including me) are making literally WORKING WEAPONS that can shoot lego bullets, but LEGO wont make a non working minifig scaled tank or a jet fighter. i know that lego doesnt like violence and guns, but why do we have Lego Star wars then?

[@AerthQuakeWasTaken]

Hot take: Lego should stop using stickers. I can't stress enough how annoying it is to see my old sets filled with stickers that are peeling off, or the frustration that comes after applying a sticker slightly wrong. They should either replace the stickers with printed pieces or just not add the detail at all. Also, Lego should stop slacking off with the printing quality. Pretty much every single new minifigure has noticeable printing errors.

[@feuerreiteroderso8655]

I think you don't know what a hot take is

[@jackyharuhiko]

I really hate stickers, especially round and square ones. It’s very hard to align all the sides at once. I hate the stickers slanted or not being centered but there is only so much that I can do with my eyes and big fingers.

[@JamesTDG]

Agreed. I had to bring out sculpting tools for various sets just because I did not want to have to replace stickers numerous times, and they STILL are peeling!

[@AerthQuakeWasTaken]

@@feuerreiteroderso8655 It's not my fault that all my opinions are objectively right ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[@user-kg5jo4cz8g]

do you even know how expensive that would be to make prints for every single set? especially for sets with tons of stickers? it would rack up the price significantly. not everything can be a print.

[@BluestoryKamil]

My hot take: I think that the fact that lego bricks arent made out of real bricks is unrealistic.

[@DustyB]

I think people forget that adult collectors are literally grown up kids who enjoy Lego

[@jameslynch1602]

Well put

[@Zorro9129]

So…manchildren?

[@ruddogcolledoggy8560]

​@@Zorro9129you are watching a video on lego

[@Zorro9129]

@@ruddogcolledoggy8560 true true

[@flireferret]

My hot take: most Lego sculptures just seem like someone put a 3d model into a voxelizer algorithm and don't make any creative use of the Lego whatsoever.

[@3possumsinatrenchcoat]

this plus the dots versions of existing art, that look like they just threw a picture of Darth Vader into a pixelizer. technically starry night and the wave has at least a little bit of creativity, making a few 3d elements and using regular Lego pieces. but "80 bucks for a paint- I mean DOT by number" is just scummy imo

[@LegoMiester14]

Not sure if this is a hot take, but we need more Lego Trains. Where we only get a few sets a year, most being very simple, most aren't that good. I can give an exception to the Orient Express and the Emerald night though. Lego makes so many different elements for car wheels, chassis, and widows while steam trains have had the same wheels for years. Many of us train fans have to turn to other sources to build accurate scale models.

[@dyl_pickle16-mta48]

I’ve always wanted a LEGO train set since I was a child, but I still don’t have one.

[@Kanyon85]

More steam locomotives, yes. I want the engines but the price then bloats with incredibly detailed passenger cars and I just don't care about that. They could do a whole themed line with different steam locomotives.

[@mo-s-]

lego and real life trains 👍

[@Wolfbroa]

I just want different Lego vehicles not sports cars. Like gimme Lego rv. Lego Toyota, like make it speed champion scale and it would be amazing

[@oopsispilledmymilk7300]

@@Wolfbroa One of my favorite lego sets ever was a campervan made a few years back just because it was a normal vehicle, it's really annoying to not have normal cars when building cities, because they just become full of supercars/

[@Indecisive4734]

Hot take: WE. NEED. INDIVIDUAL. MINIFIGURES.

[@SamwiseLovesJesus]

As in Collectable Minifigures?

[@Dawg347]

So the minifigure blind bags

[@Indecisive4734]

@@Dawg347 Sort of like that, but different.

[@paweborkowski6959]

5:00 'I don't get how ppl buy sets just for minifigures instead of using bricklink'. Well, guess how set-exclusive minifigures appear on bricklink.

[@LegionOfFett]

Battle packs are an exeption though as the whole point of a battle pack is the mini figures.

[@paweborkowski6959]

@@LegionOfFett Definitely. I'm not a fan of SW or Marvel so I didn't even know there were battle packs :)

[@Kepora1]

@@paweborkowski6959 TBH Chima did battle packs perfectly.

[@Sonicspeedround]

Hot take: at this point, I’m getting ready to start opening a small business to make some Lego custom legs and arms for mini fingers so they can finally bend around. I’m tired of laying around and I can’t do barely anything.

[@TrashTrackers]

I've been a Lego fan for close to 20 years and I appreciate the adult sets that are satisfying to build and a great challenge 😊

[@anandbatra290]

just glad to be your 69th liker

[@Very_Mean_Soup]

As a younger individual, I also can say I love the adult sets

[@Chillz011]

I like the fact that they have adult sets, there just may be a little too many of them.

[@lumi55315]

​@@Chillz011 actually though. Wish they would make more like the boutique hotel, has that old creator expert vibe to it that I just love

[@blastification2]

Here's a hot take specifically for Lego Star Wars: There is way too much focus on clones these days, to the expense of everything else. I'm just not *that* much of a clone fan. Make more droids, more rebels, more Jedi. We don't need 20 different kinds of clones with tiny color differences.

[@johng8837]

we need an Umbra line- the possibilities of SNOT for the fighters and tank are so dope

[@MicahKGaming]

Make more general grevious minifigures

[@Kanyon85]

How about a middle leg for our astromechs? lol

[@Abyss_Watcher]

I'd love to see a whole wave (old style wave, not 3 sets) of just Empire vs. Rebels. Rebel Fleet Troopers have always been WAY too hard to get in decent numbers, they were only really an accessible figure in 2007 (or was it 2008?).

[@jmurray1110]

I love the clones but yes there should be more focus on the other factions Particularly the droids of the CIS Lego doesn’t even consider B1’s as figures Also the AT-TE should have introduced the crab droid rather than the dwarf spider droid again More precisely give up a UCS lukerhaul with culture droids and tri droids

[@DarthSeverus3117]

I don't think that taking apart LEGO sets in reverse order is as bad as people say. It makes it easier to rebuild the set

[@samhebrank1903]

Yes! I do this all the time, I thought everyone did

[@mpsuperstar88]

Hot take: almost every Lego Minecraft character is inaccurate

[@CVC-VR]

Yes

[@LeanGreenVR]

Indeedaly doo mister sir

[@Eritz112]

Hot take: you are right

[@Loweffortanimationslol]

Fr

[@mpsuperstar88]

my gosh, I didn’t expect this. I usually get zero likes and zero applies thank all four of y’all.

[@mineority6310]

Hot take, I personally cut out the front and back from the lego boxes so I can keep part of them without taking up that much room :)

[@TheSpaceGuy8538]

That is not a bad idea.

[@mrmaniac3]

Can't you just fold the box?

[@mineority6310]

@@mrmaniac3While folding the box could save you some cutting time it would take up more space than is necessary.

[@mrmaniac3]

@@mineority6310 it's two dimensional, just slide it under or behind something? Best solution is to not buy legos if you need space

[@mineority6310]

@@mrmaniac3 Ah but Legos are a staple. a must have. a visit to memory lane.... Legos are nostalgic.

[@KaiDid]

Idk if this is a hot-take, but I definitely think Lego needs to release more ball joint and clip pieces, like a bar with a ball and clip on each end to make smaller yet more flexible things, in addition to that I think they should be making more custom-built mech sets that don’t always use ball joints as the prime way of moving the arms and legs, especially when there are so many other ways of doing so.

[@TannerRichards-wt9ge]

Hot take- we need sub 50$ castle sets and lotr sets. Bring back minifigures packs from the 80s castle sets

[@Kepora1]

Like what Chima did.

[@Zorro9129]

Although themes based on third-party franchises have been around for a long time (Star Wars and Harry Potter for example), the fact that they comprise the majority of sets now feels corporate and uninspired. LEGO takes much fewer risks with their own themes and that's disappointing. Bionicle, Mars Mission, Alpha Team, Dino Attack etc. were memorable in their own right without piggybacking off popular franchises.

[@povdylan1021]

Ok my hot take is knockoff Lego figures aren’t so bad, the customs look amazing (most of the time) and real Lego can cost too much now a days

[@rhaeasoul8531]

Esspecially if lego either won’t make the figure or the one time they did was 10 years ago and it’s worth a fortune now. I have one of those brick minifigure display cases for my spiderverse collection and most of that entire bottom row are all bootlegs for those 2 reasons.

[@jsmithy643]

Have you ever heard of Cobi?

[@sleepdeep305]

@@jsmithy643oh yeah I’ve heard of cobi bryan, the famous cricket player

[@williamaguilar5519]

There’s these nock off Lego murder drones sets that look awesome

[@daniel-mk5lz]

There are some custom ones that are really cool, but there are a lot of cheap knock-offs as well

[@ThefanaticFoxUser]

I think the play or display answer is quite simple. Its up to you. Nobody can stop you from playing with the set or not. You determine whether the risk of damaging it through play is worth it

[@moninglisa]

My hot take is that yeah legos have turned into a adults collector toy, but it’s sure fun building them, right?

[@VestedUTuber]

Eh, depends on the set. Sets like the Eifel Tower or Daily Bugle are a bit of a slog, honestly, due to the number of repeat steps in their construction. But some of the other ones, like the El Dorado Fortress, are really fun or at least a good way to learn new building techniques.

[@Mike-mf3ed]

My hot take is that I stopped playing the Lego games since the Lego movie games because I always hated the realistic backgrounds and the Lego movie games proved that they can make entire worlds out of Lego, but they don’t. I get that it might be on purpose to make those games unique, but it’s uncanny to me and I don’t think it should be called a Lego game if the only thing that’s Lego are the things you interact with and the minifigs…

[@Nae_ex]

Lego worlds was the last game with a completely blocky style

[@Mike-mf3ed]

@@Nae_ex I think I remember that game vaguely…

[@TheSpaceGuy8538]

Try LEGO: Worlds, it's on pretty much every platform except mobile, the world is made completely of LEGO, and there isn't any licenced content.

[@otminealnamer1385]

I used to build from piles without sorting. It was kind of fun, in the same sense that a "Where's Waldo" book is fun. Definitely slowed down the build, but I kind of enjoyed hunting for the pieces. My biggest hot take is that minifigures and big display sets(like most UCS star wars sets) are overrated; the real value of Lego sets to me comes from the cleverness in their design and engineering, most often found in how they fit play features or details in models without compromising the aesthetic. A huge amount of praise went to the recent UCS Venator, but I personally find it boring because it has nothing to offer other than outward appearances. Nothing clever or neat about its internal design: just your basic skeletal supports surrounded by a plated exterior. I would've been all over that set if it had a micro-scale accessible interior, even if it bumped the cost up a couple hundred.

[@bighatastrea]

Imo minifigs are important for the aesthetic. Of course they're nothing special, and posing them or anything doesn't require much work or effort, but they add to a scene depending on what it is. If I build the Emperor's throne room from Star Wars it would be kinda boring if the Emperor wasn't sitting on the throne, for example. Or a medieval town with a busy market and some guards. That's a completely different aesthetic fun thing than the building technique aspect

[@otminealnamer1385]

@@bighatastrea I agree in that they're good set pieces to complete a scene, but I think they're overhyped as far as their individual value. Granted, I never got into collectible figures, so that might be part of it.

[@TheSpaceGuy8538]

I like doing that with set that have 5 or fewer bags,

[@dallanledford6364]

I'd kill for a new line of buildable technic figures. They'd have to incorporate the mixel joints into technic parts to allow for smaller figures that could fit in most sets of a certain scale.

[@Omabatfartsbruh]

hot take: constraction should be seen as part of lego's core identity

[@tau-5794]

Unity, Duty, Destiny brother.

[@Abyss_Watcher]

Absolutely, Bionicle is largely what got me into Lego in the first place.

[@safebox36]

I wouldn't mind minifigures with knees. Doesn't need them, but it's certainly welcome for more unique displays.

[@adiosk80]

For the boxes, if you like the artwork on the front you could cut out just the front portion, use it as a backdrop or even have film in a pile. It's a lot easier to store. A single sheet of cardboard than it is to have multiple boxes of different shapes around

[@SuperThunderbrain]

Thats what I did with one of the gundam kit boxes I have (MG Barbatos)

[@Tommy_The_Gun]

My hot take would be that it is a shame that Lego killed off their own themes/brands and replaced them with licenced ones. No Pirates, just Pirates of the Caribbean. No Space, just Star Wars. We had so many of those but now it is just license after license...

[@TheSpaceGuy8538]

True

[@VestedUTuber]

In the case of Pirates of the Caribbean, we actually had an unlicensed pirate theme after that. Problem was it was a half-assed theme with some neat ideas but awful execution. So it wasn't Pirates of the Caribbean that killed Pirates, it was 2015 Pirates that killed Pirates. Also, the old original themes are making a sort of mini-comeback with various Icons sets. Have you seen the El Dorado Fortress remake?

[@legoat8747]

I honestly used to build my sets with all the bags opened in one pile. Didn't realize how difficult this made my building experience. Finally came to the conclusion and realization that the bags are numbered for a reason. Took me way to long to realize lol. But never going back. It's so much more easier and organized for the parts to be found.

[@inkticious5787]

My LEGO hot-take, is that they should do more sets like the old monster sets, and old ninjago sets. I remember having a lot of fun especially with the ninjago vehicle sets, making my own versions of the vechiles, taking inspiration from the instructions but over all doing my own thing.

[@the-ops]

I hate the buildings that only have the front and lack the other 3 walls. I also hate how they put all the contents of the building behind a single wall.

[@dunkanbulk14]

Bionicle deserves to Rest in Peace after all that its done, it doesn't need a reboot, Hero Factory was the only worthy successor to it, and was the last Lego theme i was truly invested in

[@AxolotlGuy7]

I like stepping on bricks. It feels calming.

[@LV426Resident]

Same

[@JsFilms599]

@@LV426Resident same its satisfying

[@Abyss_Watcher]

I'm not the only one? Amazing.

[@Dawg347]

Of course you’re actively thinking about stepping in the brick so it’ll magically not hurt.

[@MidnightCraft]

I step on Lego for fun. So when I'm playing I build A tolerance for it.

[@notagainmanstop468]

His response to there being too many sets over a hundred was… “yeah well the sets are bigger” That’s just restating the question. Yeah there’s too many and there’s little to no focus on sets that aren’t so much. Hell a lot of smaller sets practically look like scams for how little they are putting in them relative to years prior. Kinda hard to be into the hobby when you can’t partake in it

[@gn4rpz-the-c4t]

I wound up asking my mom how much sets usually go for because she's bought a lot for my siblings, BC I was genuinely astounded to see some of the littler sets going for $50 on the official site.

[@MrHumbuck]

My hot take is that Lego needs more simplicity. I think there's a real beauty in the simplistic blockyness of older sets and the (IMO) much better designed minifig prints we used to get. In my eyes Exo Force was one of the last themes to look really amazing, although of course there's still the odd set here and there that impresses me

[@mo-s-]

liking because I do not aggree

[@vidcas1711]

My opinion is purely based on nostalgia, but I think the city-themed sets from the 90s to early 2000s struck a nice balance of being detailed but not over specialized.

[@TitaniumNinja42]

When you think about it the lego magazines are just a minifigure with a booklet

[@Death_Tr00per58]

I took my lego typewriter apart in reverse when I was rebuilding it, but thats mostly because it's so complex that there's really only one correct way to take it apart

[@7evenseas975]

I want hero factory to return, the toys were awesome because even if you destroyed the original character. you can always make your own character, using pieces from the sets. Hero factory was my bionicle, and i felt pain for when it went all wrong at the end rather then it ending

[@chaoslord8918]

Not a fan of the BrickHeads either. They're hideous. Except for the snek at 8:46... it's cute. Similarly, the giant head/helmet sets (mostly Star Wars) are of zero interest to me.

[@evenberg8499]

My Lego was in a large plastic storage box, driving my mother crazy when I was digging for that 1x1 headlight lens or a small antennae. 😆

[@austin_streuter]

I honestly don’t mind stickers in sets. I’m used to putting together Gundam kits which can have an incredibly high sticker count and incredibly small stickers, so it’s not a big deal to me.

[@theo69-yt]

Hot take:Lego speed champions is the best theme

[@TheSpaceGuy8538]

Not exactly true in my opinion, but Speed Champions is the best theme nowadays.

[@zufieusagi7509]

In defense of the knees idea, Mega has figures with working knees and elbows without being very much larger than a typical Lego minifig. Take a look at their Halo figures for example.

[@StefanMArndt]

The issue is longevity, though. Those Halo minifigs start falling apart and breaking really fast. The joints get loose and they can't even hold up their own weight after a very short amount of play sessions. Yes, some R&D could be done to improve the longevity, but when it comes down to it, the plastic is just too thin in the joints, and they are going to break with wear.

[@thebros4178]

I remember when my brother mixed all the bags in my favourite Lego set and I came home from school to find a mess on the floor and my bro just giggled!😢

[@JWRB_Gaming]

Lego should make a movie-accurate Venom (minifig and bigfig)

[@dragonblaster-vu8wz]

Ill admit, lego minifigures having bendable knees would be neat, but the engineering process at that scale would be a nightmare. You'd probably have to use the longer legs from the Avatar Way of Water minifigures to make it easier. And even then, making the attachment points secure while keeping the posabily is still a challenge

[@ferro9926]

I think a much more feasable way to boost posability is to just add bendable elbows that slot in in a similar way as the tecnic pins or the pin-and-socket wheels (but on a smaller scale), this will also make it easier for lego to make minifigs in say, short sleeves or long gloves even in the few times they are used

[@Fazbro0]

I will admit I do like the sticker pieces because I find that the printed pieces always accidentally get confused with a similar non sticker piece and end up being in the wrong place

[@jaykoops9502]

When I got the LEGO Rivendell set, it was already pre-owned and built, so I had to take it all apart and scatter the parts all around with no place or order. The build took like a week and a half, I had to like jump from manual to another if I got stuck on one section of the build.

[@HistoryUnwound]

I actually understand the first one. Building it by bag number definitely helps the first time you build a set, but what if you want to take it apart and build it all over again? Then bag numbers are no longer an option anymore. So doing it all at once the first time just feels like every other time you build the set.

[@trev3971]

Very simple. When you take the set apart, put it in ziploc bags and number them as you go in reverse.

[@nickthenuker7916]

@@trev3971like the way the 3rd guy does it?

[@DrekenKasai]

My hot take would be that I hate beige lego minifigures, especially seeing that all licensed lego series use that. Personally I prefer using yellow instead but still use the darker skin tints for variety. It's especially frustrating when you see many minifigs facial expressions exclusive to beige ones.

[@16floz]

I would love to see the technic-scale minifigures to make a comeback. They have the simplicity and charm of classic minifigures but they can be used for larger-scale dioramas.

[@DaGamingCore]

They should do more stuff like Ninjago Legacy; reprinting old figures with new, modern designs which makes them more afordable

[@BrickStopmotions]

My hot take: P2 clone helmet holes are not that bad; I barely notice them. Hot take 2: Printed waist capes would be fine if they just printed the sides of the legs... …but the backs... Ok, if they just dual molded the legs and printed the front... …but the insides of the legs... …and the white print would undoubtedly be so bad... … … Ok, forget it! Cold take: get RID OF printed waist capes and BRING BACK CLOTH!!

[@VestedUTuber]

"What's the largest set you ever bought specifically for a minifigure?" I think it might have been a pick-a-brick order, specifically to build a custom pirate crew.

[@Magdalena9Jeden]

could be the 32 year old in me but I cant get with Dreamzzz. Too wacky and chaotic

[@WarpigA23]

I'm 54 and it's the wackiness I love! I'm also a fan of Chima, Trolls, Monkie Kid.

[@Snek_Animation]

Hot take: Lego should make licensed brick boxes, that contain parts and commonly used in a theme

[@SkywalkerFilms1927]

Hot take: Lego needs to redo the battle droid (everything but the body) and make a new commando droid.

[@Salted_Pringle]

Lego should partner with more brands for more sets to appeal to literally everyone

[@marx4538]

I really like how certain old set stuff looked. Faces, wheels, doors, etc, all of that was simpler in the whole "System" aesthetic and it had a very nice charm. The later ones were sort of close to it early on, but stuff like City just went away and never came back despite sharing themes. Creator is still cool though.

[@gaminghamz2024]

Hot take: Lego should bring back all retired themes.

[@builder1013]

Actually, for someone who enjoys tediously searching and spending more time on a Lego set, that first one I might try this Christmas. It would also be really satisfying as you watch the massive pile get smaller and smaller.

[@davidaustin272]

Wouldn't it be great if the post on top of a Minifigure torso was a simple ball joint? Imagine how much more expressive they could look with slight head tilts...

[@BrickStopmotions]

That would be cool, but I think that would make the neck too tall, especially if Lego were to use their standard ball joint. There would also be a color problem, or else the ball on the torso would have to be a separate piece. But it would be cool if they could do this!

[@kevinolver39]

I’ve seen these ball- joint necks on clego (clone Lego) mini figs, and they do little to increase the length of said joint. So I agree that it would be cool if Lego did this

[@Chillz011]

Taking sets apart in reverse instruction order and bagging them as you go is actually genius

[@Roycorrs]

Personally, I open all the bags in sets but separate by colors. (Sometimes.)

[@Beto_Mori]

I think part of the fun, is that you can do whatever you feel fun with your Lego pieces, there are options for everybody, and it's better than ok, it's amazing

[@anarchistidiot]

there should be military sets

[@ProfessionalKiwiDude]

Very good pfp

[@Iilah-ah]

The first guy has never built a set with over 1000 pieces. Just imagine building Rivendell with its 49 bags of pieces

[@EmeraldPencil46]

5:25 I kinda agree, I really don't care much about minifigs. I don't hate them, and I'd rather have them than not, but I'd much prefer to have a great set over them.

[@19TheFallen]

The part where you read that guy's comment about Legos tasting delicious brought back memories of one Christmas where one of my gifts was a box of edible Legos. They were made of a hard candy, similar in composition to that of Smarties, and actually functioned like regular Legos. They were even at the right scale that you could use them with regular Lego pieces. I never saw them again after that, and while I thought they were pretty cool, I can understand why Lego went "Now, wait a minute........Is this a good idea?!?!"

[@Adoqualay]

This isn't as much of a hot take, as it is a literal fact. LEGO houses have downgraded significantly since the 31012 house. They are literally 4-5 times smaller than they used to be, and yet 90% of them still have open backs. While they might have much more detail compared to the older houses, they cannot be compared to the older ones; the older ones are so much bigger and grander, and look like an actual house instead of a detailed shed. I think that if LEGO brought back the scale and grandness of the older houses, with the detail and features of the newer ones, that would be absolutely amazing. I know this sounds naive, but I would love to become a designer for the Creator house branch of LEGO, and I would love to fix the problems and scale that the modern houses have now. If you want to look more into depth into it, I recommend watching Bricksie's video about how they have gotten worse over time.

[@Freelancer4tehwin]

My hot take: fewer ips, fewer small bits, more sets that rely on regular bricks. Part of Lego's cost has to be the number of unique/niche pieces in sets.

[@zllg1714]

Hot take: Lego set should have more chains

[@ianjtgove]

My Lego hot take: *The 1x5 plate looks so cursed.* I recently got the Star Wars Executor Super Star Destroyer (75356), and it comes with one dark-grey 1x5 plate, and the part honestly looks so "off-brand". It seems like a part you'd find in a Mega Construx set, but a Lego set? No way. Maybe it's just me, but any odd-numbered 1x[X] plates (other than 1x1 and 1x3) just seem unnatural for official Lego parts.

[@caimanthechimera679]

Ok so I have a few Hot Takes that I’m willing to share - Mixels is objectively the best Lego theme ever made and no I will not take criticism for this - Minifigures are way too expensive, IIRC back in the day the CMF blindbags were somewhere around the same price as a Mixel, a set with way more pieces and you were basically guaranteed to not get duplicates of the same guy. - IDK if this is an entirely Hot Take but Lego Investors are single-handedly the worst thing to ever happen to Lego. They make cool sets expensive for no reason and just Lego in general ridiculously expensive. - Friends is basically just Lego City for people who hate cops and I absolutely love that theme for it - Technic/CCBS and System can coexist, and I’m sick and tired of AFOLs (or as I like to call them, “Brickcels”) constantly whining and claiming they can’t. - Another one I believe isn’t very hot but I think we should axe Lego Star Wars and Harry Potter, the former because Disney pretty much already murdered the franchise anyway and I highly doubt we can ever salvage it, and the latter because the author is a transphobic witch that doesn’t deserve money. Also I’m just tired of licensed themes in general and RN Sonic is literally the only one I actually care about. I have way more of these Hot Takes but I think that should be enough for now, have a nice day everyone.

[@Tempo_The_Cat]

Hot Take: expensive Lego sets are fine, it sucks to have to pay that much, but the experience of building it is long enough to make the price fair. Plus, they’ve got tons of employees and need to pay them

[@Nisbestboi]

Hot take: people that have millions of pieces should use them to make shelves to put Lego sets on

[@Oichief]

Lego needs to commission more of their official sets from builders outside their company because look at what people on the internet can do with 500pcs vs what Lego can do with 3000.

[@NfromMurderDrones323]

Him: Trying to find one tiny lego piece in 15 bags worth of brick fills me with- Me: Determination

[@brentc2411]

Legos in the 90s didn't have numbered bags. You had a bag of tiny pieces, a bag of medium pieces and a bag of large pieces 😂

[@anneliseolsen6896]

My hot takes? 1: reusing the big boxes as storage for other things, or as build trays for MOCs. 2: only use the stickers that represent computer consoles, and put the rest into a container and yeet them into storage.

[@BusinessBearFilms]

What LEGO did to their pirates of the Caribbean theme was criminal Same with ghost busters and I’m sure so many more

[@obliviousbox4519]

Biggest set I’ve bought for 1 figure is tied between Bane’s Truck and Killer Croc’s truck from the Lego Batman movie.

[@grumbert]

When I was a kid Lego used to publish a book every year with new instructions for existing sets, mostly based around the city theme. The best thing for 10 year old me was the 2 sticker sheets in the middle of the book!

[@Gliese710_]

I throw the boxes away, keep the instructions, and throw the spare pieces into my completely unorganized bins.

[@Gliese710_]

I also usually only has 3-4 sets built at a time, and the rest are taken apart to build Mocs, or to save space. (Parts also put into the bins)