So true! In the last few years I had real problems to enjoy Christmas, but last Christmas I bought myself an old 2002 Harry Potter Set (Chamber of Secrets) and not only was I excited again but also felt the same magic again that I felt when putting together the 2001 Hogwarts Castle as a kid. Lego really helps me reliving my childhood memorie and, in some way, make new ones.
this is especially hard as a teenager because people think that you “haven’t matured yet” and i get bullied at my high school because i started the LEGO club there and people judge me for not “growing out” of LEGO.
You're the audience I really wanted this video to reach! Don't listen to those people. You can totally mature while still enjoying a fun hobby. So cool of you to start a club!
As someone who’s graduated college & is now working for one of the biggest & most professional companies in the world. None of what those people say matter brother. Enjoy it, I got back into Lego & regret never being able to get into Lego when I was younger. Keep doing you man, be yourself.
Personally I think the reason I like Lego is because I can finally get the sets I wished I could afford as a kid ( plus I could have a cool display piece )
I am 57 yrs old and got my first set, LEGO Police car set 611 in 1973. When my favorite toy and my favorite movie joined, I was all in. Now my collection is out of control with Star Wars (almost all of them since the beginning), Iron Man, Bat Mobiles, NASA, the bigger cars, and the Botanicals. Building a new set is my Happy Place. My granddaughter knows the difference between Papa's LEGOs and her LEGOs. She helps me build a ship and we fly it around the house then put it on a shelf, then we build her princess castle or Spiderman set and fight the villains.
I am 55 and mine is getting out of control too LOL. Just built the new Viking Vilalge set this past weekend. Looking forward to the LoTR Black Tower coming out later this year. Rivendell last year was an amazing build.
I'll be honest, I'm 25 and on the Autism Spectrum. A lot of Spectrum people, myself included, keep their childhood hobbies and just expand on them instead of "growing outta them." Dinosaurs became Paleontology, Lego just... kept being Lego. I'm just still Dani. Dani likes Lego. Simple as that. ♡
W comment. Even neurotypical individuals shouldn’t be ashamed about expending their childhood passions into their adulthood. Just because ours happens to be Lego, doesn’t mean it should be looked down upon. Why should we let others ruin our childhood fun?
I remember grinding out the Indiana jones runner where you escape the boulder and stuff. For some reason our computer didn’t save my progress so one night I just completed the whole thing after weeks of perfecting my runs lol
the old lego racing stunt arena was my GAME that and I have a core memory of my friend doing the shooting and me doing the moving around to beat Dino Attack
I am a 22 year old man, I turn 23 this year as well. My reason for loving LEGO so much is because I get to play with them and create my own stories. I would even write down how I would want the story to go, and it makes me really happy. When I have a short amount of time to play with my LEGO I just pull out a few minifigs and just play for a bit, but whenever I have a lot of time, I pull out some sets and just go crazy and create a elaborate story with lore lol. As someone who has come to terms with loving certain hobbies and enjoying whatever I do without carrying who judges me, it can get a a little exhausting hearing the same things repeated such as "arent you too old to play with toys?" or "That's really weird as an adult" etc... I just try to move on but sometimes it does get to me. Yes I have a job and I go to college full time and I have many bills like everyone else does, but I feel that people ignore that part of me and just see the me playing with LEGO and it makes people go away from me. It has happened quiet often where I would meet new people and I would mention how I love LEGO, and they automatically just think its weird, but when I get home from those terrible outings I pull out my LEGO and I start playing with them and it really just boost my mood because even though many people will leave me I just know that my LEGOs will always be there for me.
I told about 30 employees at work that I collect only star wars lego and I could care less what they think about it and to this day I have about a handful of coworkers ask me how am I doing collecting... now im not going to make it sound like it's all gravy because there are some employees that did give me a weird look, but I'm 33 years old. I don't give two shits😂😂
@sirw7630 you would be surprised, but there was one employee who actually had a large bin filled with old Lego, and he didn't want it anymore, so he gave it to me for free I obviously picked out what I wanted and then sold the rest to Bricks and minifigs for store credit.
As an Adult it's an escape but it's also a way to help me stay away from drinking, and for me to help me connect with my niece and nephew. Seriously the time I've spent building Legos has helped me stay away from alcohol and helped keep me focused. It also helps me keep a budget, if theres a set I like, I look at the price then do the math and if I can afford it yeah I get it if it's not in the budget than I try again next month
I am a child and the reason I collect LEGO is for the feeling of waiting months to get a new LEGO set and then finally building it, taking a good look at it, and then displaying it.
I like having something to do that doesn't involve a screen for a change. It lets me do something else with my hands rather than hold a controller or use a keyboard. Of course there are other hobbies that allow this, I've always liked Tabletop battle games like Warhammer but being dyspraxic I find precise fine motor skills like gluing and painting a small (and expensive) plastic figure very difficult. I know whatever I finish with will not even look as half as good as what is on the box art. Lego on the other hand is simple with great instructions and it is always going to look great when you finish. There is no price for a mistake as everything can be dissasembled and reassembled. Once I'm done I like messing about and taking pictures. With the Lego castle I besieged it with all the pink frogs I got from the alternate build of the bonsai tree and had the knights fighting them off from the battlements. I used the all pink minifig from the Everyone is Awesome set as the leader of the pink frog horde. Currently thinking of what they can battle next...
The recent Dune ornithopter is a set that's specifically designed as a playset for adults. It is too heavy and too big to be comfortably held by most children, but the size of the tail, the intended handle, is strangely ergonomically perfect for adult hand, and it places most control mechanisms within reach. I love playing with mine, picking it up, flapping the wings a bit, it's a great stress reliever.
Well that’s the reason i hate the set. I wanted a display only piece. There are too many red and blue pins and a lot of exposed Technic to make the wings move. I view LEGO different. I Build the sets, Display them and pretty much never touch them again. So of cause I want them to look accurate (and not have technic and ugly colors showing)
Honestly my best friend and I made a whole LEGO Strategy Game so we could keep playing with our LEGO and creating stories after 'taking a break' from LEGO in high school and early college. Great video, thanks for sharing and encouraging us all to be a little more honest with ourselves. And LEGO needs to make non-expensive castle sets with play features!!
im 61 grew up playing with it, then later with my bro as he was 10 yrs younger than me. then i had kids and played with their sets with them. now its grandkids and in my humble opinion you are NEVER too old to play with lego
I can honestly say that at 54 I play with Lego almost exactly the same way I used to do when I was 10.. but the thing is that for me it was always the design and creative building that appealed to me. When I was a kid I would swoosh things I'd built but only for a minute, then it was on to redesigning and "improving" the model with some features of my own devising. Me and my best friend used to buy the same models and then informally compete with the best mods and with best I mean craziest.
People in my school always say "legos are so childish" when they are bringing the most out of pocket toys to play with. I loves your vids and I hope u get to 100k soon!
I build only Star Wars sets, the big technic cars, and some misc sets that are just beautiful (like Rivendell). And I have a lot of Lego. I enjoy the process of building (all kinds of things), displaying, and the subject matter that I built (loved pre-Disney Star Wars). It's fantastic in my office. Plus, I like kids going bonkers checking it out. I'm 51.
As someone who has more than 5 decades riding this rock through space, allow me to encourage EVERYONE to embrace that attitude that every kid has about their favorite dinosaur and give zero f#cks about what someone else might think. If you LOVE something that's "for kids" and it truly brings you contentment, don't apologize for your love of it. It's hard enough to find happiness in this world. Don't let others' judgment put you in a box you don't want to be in.
I had a short dark age as a late teen (sold my lego) and early twenties (studies). At age 22 I started collecting and playing Pokémon TCG. Met my pokémon-loving now-wife, and she loved collecting and playing with My Little Pony. And loved Nintendo and introduced me to Mario, Zelda, Kirby etc. I picked up Lego in 2022 and bought everything Star Wars and Classic Space. Then onto the modulars and “adult” sets. My wife enjoys (building) lego as well, as do my children. Nobody is above swooshing a space ship. Why would you (need to) lose the ability to play? Most of my friends are into boardgames or Lego. They’re not judgemental at all about playing. My family (parents, siblings) kinda are. They’ve asked me hundreds of times “why don’t you sell -insert collection-“, because that’s what they would do, since they don’t understand. I always avoid talking about it, sunce it’s always a “waste of money”. In the living room, I just have a bunch of modular building and spme adults sets. When people come over and ask, I just tell them I love Lego, and they’re like “oh that’s cool”. Lego was a toy for children before the mid ‘80s, then expanded to teens (with expert sets and technic), then had a dark age in the late 90s (junior sets, bad themes), then started making sets for both children, teens ánd adult nerds from the early ‘00s (Star Wars, large sets, architecture etc) and now, early ‘20s, they’re expanding to “normal” adults. With sets like the typewriter, art sets, and especially the botanicals. Just yesterday, at the mall, I saw advertsing for a Lego flowers set, aimed at adults (give flowers you can build together). This would’ve been absurd decades ago. Lego is becoming a sonewhat normal hobby for adults.
I feel ashamed sometimes when I build lego. Knowing you like to play lego too makes me feel better. Thanks for making this video! Forrestfire101 is so good!
Sorry for making this sad right out of the gate, but it really ties into my reason. I’m 45, and 7 years ago my wife died. I picked Lego back up as a way to distract myself and, yes, to reconnect with my inner kid. But what I want to tell those who read this, is more important. It led to me giving exactly zero….let’s say ‘hoots’ about what other people think about me and my hobbies. Yes, you’ll meet people who think it’s infantile. But what my wife taught me is that life is literally too short to spend even a second worrying about that. Please do what makes you happy and excuse yourself from the fake obligation of justifying it to others.
I enjoy Lego because it’s that part of my childhood I never have to grow out of, and my form of playing with my Legos is doing Stop Motions it’s so much fun grabbing two of my favorite figures and having them fight each other.
I just turned 30 and love LEGO. If you have a hobby that doesn't hurt anyone and brings you joy - then there is no need to ever feel embarrassed about that. After about 25 I learned that if someone takes issue with your hobby, then that is their problem, not yours, and I just won't want to spend time with them. That said, the best way to enjoy LEGO is with my toddler. Even after I put together the UCS Razor Crest she said "wow daddy i love it! Can we play with the spaceship?". Of course we can
The part about looking up all the content afterI get a set is SO TRUE. Super glad to mentioned this. I also love to look up content about it before it even arrives. Just to get more hyped.
as someone who’s currently 20 at the time of writing this, i got back into Lego last year because it was something that helped me take my mind off of a traumatic event that occurred in 2021. that feeling of rummaging through my bin and finding sets and rebuilding them and the satisfaction of clicking the bricks together really helped find something to pay attention to
I'm probably not your target audience because I'm 50 years old, but I'll tell you the truth. I lost what Lego meant to me for like 30-odd years. After nearly dying two years ago, I decided that it was my therapy. It's a wonderful, wholesome thing and I don't think anyone has room to criticize.
If someone is going to judge me harshly for surrounding myself with sculptures made from plastic bricks they can take a hike. I don’t need that kind of negativity in my life.
Shout out to you man. This is something I’ve experienced a lot. As a teenager I took all my sets down after a bad break up because I felt that it was too childish and I needed to grow up. Now i’m 26 and have recently got back into buying cool sets and have found it’s an incredibly cathartic and relaxing hobby, which has made me love it much more than when I was younger. It’s taken me away from more destructive past times e.g. drinking etc, and has allowed me to access a creative and imaginative side that i’d long hidden because of some random shame that other people had imparted. I choose to live my life the way I want, with enjoyment, excitement and imagination!
I am 46 yers old.Got into lego about three years ago.Started with lego technic and now lego star wars is my favourite.Still building the technic though .My friends and coworkers don't understand how could I spent so much money on "toys".They always say "you could have bought a brand new car for that money".But I don't want a brand new car.I want to keep spending money on lego .Because I love it!!!The space is a problem though.Looks like my 3 bedroom apartment is not big enough.But I always find new places to put the new sets :-).
I am 56 and I don’t give a dime about what people say or think. When they will start paying my rent, my bills, and buy my Lego sets, then they may have a say. Until then… Lego away !!!
I’m 49 and I like that it takes me away from my phone. It is engaging enough to focus me but not too intense that I get burned out. The sets are so fun to see coming together. I played with Lego as a kid too and I still have the same excitement for getting a new set as I did then. I don’t think you have to stop doing everything as an adult, there are certainly worse things you can do with your time.
2 reasons i like this hobby. I can finally buy all the shit I wanted when I was a kid, that my parents wouldn't buy me. I don't have a girlfriend/wife/family and pretty much no responsibilities. So why the hell shouldn't I do with my money, whatever I want? People have other expensive hobbies that others couldn't care less about. Cars, baseball card collections, guitar collections whatever the fuck. Live and leave be
I love seeing the different ways to use the pieces and the build creativity, so my favorite is to purchase instructions for all the builds, and I have fun taking the sets apart and building new things. This also gets me lots of time handling and admiring the pieces, and having fun sorting them out
Think the thing that made me love lego again as an adult is how incredibly well designed the system is. It’s crazy what the element designers are able to do and I have a deep appreciation for it
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” ― C.S. Lewis
When I’m building a set I’m actually imagining that the minifigs that come in the set are spaceship mechanics and are building the ship. I even bought a Stormtrooper mech to add an extra “tool” for the mechanics to do some of the heavy lifting. During the building I will place the mechanics and the tools in various positions to make it look like they’re actually working on an engine or a wing. I’ll be 35 next week, no shame! Love Lego en love your vids man
100% agree. It's so sad to see more and more Lego sets being marketed and intended as "display pieces", something that, once built, is supposed to be put on a shelf and that's it. Heck, even their name is an abbreviation of "play well" in Danish. Now it's just "build well" for too many sets.
Funny how the people who diss us for having a real hobby are the ones who live their lives on tiktok and other social media that is nothing but sad. Then they tell us off when we actually have fun with what we do and it bothers them that they canr get the same satisfaction from what they do. But also, we dont grow up we just grow old.
Im 40, done all my growing up years ago and feel no shame for loving the brick. I like making scenes complete with whatever is needed and then take it apart and organize it. I buy pab boxes every Wednesday and will continue to do so. Got mother into it and finally got my 19 year old daughter back into it. 😂
As a 14 year old lego fan I can get this. My parents think I'm silly that I still like legos and spend lots of money on them. (Example: I recently bought the lego ghost) I'll never age out of Lego and whatever they think won't make me stop liking Lego.
I am 20 years old, and yet, when i build lego i always forget the world a bit and relax, i build my mocs with play features but i still try to make them look good, i love it and i personally still play with my lego, obviously not as intense or as super often as back in the day but i still do and i won't stop.
I’m 60 years old and love building with Lego. My in laws think I’m turning back into a child. Oh well I’m going to have my fun. I’ve had the same job for 40 years it’s time to start enjoying life again.
This hit on another level, I remember being a kid and always wanting to be a master builder, then teenage years and adulthood hit and I pushed all of that aside. Went to Legoland after 12 years with my mom for this past Mothers Day and wow, that little version of me was screaming. Definitely going to invest more into Lego, whether it just be a hobby or heck, starting a YT myself which you have inspired me to consider. Thanks Harri, keep building and inspiring this generation and others to reconnect with their inner child and to not the let the world and people's judgement take it away!
ADHD here: They help me Zen. Bright colors, tactile activity, and instructions that allow me to shut off my brain. I love the building process and seeing shadow form, and techniques used to make some really odd shapes. I love putting together an amorphous blob of bricks and then finally realizing what it's becoming. Knowing what the end product is going to be; knowing what my efforts are going towards reduces anxiety and registers in my as an achievable goal. And I love knowing that when it's finished, I touched and placed every single brick, giving me an odd, enhanced sense of ownership. I love planning on how and where I'll display them. I love that every time I look at them, each one gives me its own unique boost of dopamine. I love when someone is over and is really taken aback by what they're seeing, that it's Lego, and the wonder on their face. I love being a man in his 40's and openly talking about Lego as a hobby, people giving me the side-eye about it, I show them, and they almost immediately one-eighty and understand why people dig them so much (many will also see something and say that they'd like to have one). I love that a small, but well thought-out Lego set makes an amazing and impactful gift to an adult that doesn't do Lego. (Try it some time. Get a small set, under $30 is a good price, that's meaningful to the person in some way, and just watch what happens. ❤ ) Now, why do I buy the ones I buy? They make me happy. And, for me, it doesn't matter why. 😊
I smile when i hear people talk about the age requirement of Lego based on the opinion of others . I am 65 years old and got into Lego for the first time in my life a few years ago with the UCS Falcon . I suffer from severe anxiety and Lego has literally saved my life and if society doesnt approve then society can go to hell . lol
Why dont people just stop worrying about what someone else thinks about your hobbies? As long as it doesn’t harm anyone, it’s really not relevant what someone else thinks.
I’m 20, the most fun thing I do is set up old scenes from movies and shows like the Clone Wars then admiring the scene for awhile. I also like them on my display shelves. The quality in Lego has bothered me with a few false advertising errors and low quality mini figs. The UCS Captain Rex from the Venator is exceptionally bad, no one can lie. And stop saying that the new helmet holes are ok. They are out of place, they make the rangefinders look horrible, and the helmets are misshapen with them. If anything, change the visor molds and binocular molds so you aren’t ruining the look of the whole figure. And No, printed waist capes and printed pauldrons don’t look good.
I have fully loaded my UCS Republic Gunship with various clone troopers from in my collection! I've even rotated the minifigs a few times, taking pictures and temporarily making a Siege of Mandalore gunship! As a kid, I was creating battle scenes and crashing my Star Wars ships, minfigs and Knights Kingdom minifigs into each other all the time. Now as an adult collector, I often play with my sets in my head, to ensure I don't crash and break them. But smaller sets, I will play with them and fly them around, just carefully.
I’m 37 and still enjoy building and playing Lego! The best part is having Lego battles with my kids, we’ll set up epic battles in the basement like Star Wars vs Ninjago, it’s so much fun.
I've been recommended/seen your shorts a bunch but never a video, but as a 34 year old I 100% agree that I want Lego sets to have play features. I want my Lego sets to be just as they were to me as a kid, sure they can be more expensive/bigger since I can afford more, but I still want them to be focused on fun. Nothing is worse than the UCS sets that have literally not a single feature at all and are just a massive super expensive model that comes with a minifigure (that can't even be used with the model in any meaningful way) to display with it statically.
i’m 19 going on 20 and have built lego my whole life, when people ask me i say well i’ve liked it since i was a kid, i love playing with an army of clone troopers and having them fight the droid army, displaying them on a battlefield or placing them in fighters and flying them around, it’s just good fun
It’s not only nostalgic for me but I wanna build memories for my kids one day. It’s not just about the display but I hope my kids enjoy legos so much with dad they look back one day and think it was an amazing part of their childhood. My collection is not just for me its for playing legos with my kids one day, that’s goals!
1 I love the universes they depict (Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Christmas collections) 2 They are often colorful and beautiful (floral collections and the medieval forge, for example) 3 Assembling them is a meditative, submersive, thoughtful and relaxing activity 4 I've always had a collector's itch for things I enjoy 5 Their little faces are happy and make you feel good 😂😊 I don't give a **** about what other people think. When you see how messed up the world is, how corrupt, how violent, how petty and jealous, how mixed-up, how many people are willing to vote a dictator into power, how many people believe in invisible gods and other such nonsense... you have to wonder why you would care about what these people think.
As someone who's terminally online, Lego is a line way for we to log off and relax while still doing something engaging. That and a nice hit of nostalgia.
I am 35 year old engineer and I'm not the only Lego and Star Wars fan in that engineering firm. When some of my colleagues came to see my new apartment they gifted me several Star Wars themed mugs, socks, Star Wars logo light, doormat and other stuff. Then they went on to play with my lego sets and lightsabers. Now we also have several Lego flowers and other nerd stuff in the office. We're quite good at our job too :D
I’m nearly 60, I build Lego simply for the enjoyment of building. It relaxes me after a stressful day at work and it like therapy to me. After I get to many sets I turn around and sell them and yes, I use that money to buy more sets.
I work in IT, everybody around me is nerdy in one way or another. At least three of us tho are into Lego, me included. Nobody cares, everyone has fun with whatever hobby they have. Is there really a difference between being a Lego hobbiest then building diecast models, collecting coins, or other things? In the big picture, no.
I rediscovered Lego in my 50s. I have no kids, lots of disposable income, and seem to be addicted to 'clicking'. Like others have said, I have various elements of ASD that leave me unfulfilled during forced socialization. Only problem I'm having is...where to put all this stuff!! There's some catharsis and stress relief involved in knowing the final product will be perfect (everything in its place).
Great video man, really spoke to me! I’ve been playing with my old legos again and buying new sets as well. I’ve created a whole world and story with 30+ different characters and it’s such a great creative outlet, really helps me escape for a bit from the worries and troubles of my life. My dad has become homeless this last year and I think that’s what’s caused me to look for different ways to occupy myself. It’s also important to mention that I too feel super insecure about playing with my legos but I think what makes things easier is that I have a girlfriend who I live with who doesn’t judge me at all. She even asks about any updates to the story going on in my Lego world, and of course I tell her all about it.
When I was much younger, in the 70/80''s, I had lots of bricks but don't remember it actually coming in any sets. So pretty much everything I built was a product of my own imagination. I started buying Technic sets recently (mostly cars). I really enjoy the building but I'm not bothered about displaying or playing with them. (I hate the stickers too, as they seem wrong). It just gives me something productiive to do in the evenings. My mum used to love doing jigsaws and it's pretty much the same thing.
Building Lego sets helps me relax and stop thinking about everything going on and just exist in the moment. And its something that my son and I can do together
Wow i pretended to be sick all the time when i was in school. Absolutely hated it. Complete waste of time. Didn't learn anything important and the bullying was awful.
I've always had a very active imagination and creative drive, so me rediscovering Lego as an adult has been a blast. I enjoy writing stories or creating worlds/settings and then creating scenes, characters and locations from those. I just love that type of activity and figuring out the best way to build and showcase those things.
For me, it gives me joy being able to buy these expensive toys with huge boxes now when we weren’t well off enough to buy me many toys when I was a kid. One core memory I have was when I wanted a $40 Godzilla toy back when we watched the first American Godzilla movie. My parents fought because one wanted to buy it for me but we didn’t really have the budget for it. I still feel kinda guilty spending money on what many feel like it’s a “waste” but hey, YOLO right.
I got back into Lego last year and it’s something I love but deep down I care what people think. I hate going into stores to buy Lego because of what people might think about me. Thanks for making this video!
I'd always get nervous talking about it with my friends even if they don't care that I collect and what not. Overtime as I've grown older and collected more and got more accepting of it, I've been able to be more open about. Like you and having turned 20 it's slowly become a nice escape back to when I was a kid especially since I've been getting stuff I remember wanting as a kid
A Lego set you want to fly around has high “swooshability”. It all depends on what sort of collector you are. I like certain sets but, I really love the pieces and figures. I tend to buy secondhand bulk lots to sort and eventually get into MOCs. Collecting certain parts in all colours is really fun for me.
I don't really "play" with Lego. What I love are the sets made purely for display. Something that lets me show off my love for Lego. My apartment is littered with Star Wars UCS, and my desk at work is decorated with Helmet series items.
I used to play with LEGO with my friends as a kid... it was the best, after a few hours building whatever we imagined, we'd then get to make up whole stories around them and feel like we'd gone on a whole adventure. Then one day they decided playing with LEGO that way was too childish and made them uncomfortable, and that was the moment my favorite memories of childhood ended as I was the last of them to stop wanting to do that. They're all in their dark ages now, but I never stopped collecting and building with LEGO, and still do so as an adult. It amuses me that as adults we have to justify creative play by calling it something else. Instead of playing pretend, we establish rules and make it a roleplaying game so it feels more serious. What are we so afraid of? In the end it's the same thing. But, I digress. Nowadays building with LEGO and revisiting LEGO themes from my childhood reminds me of the raw imaginative energy of childhood, and I feel like it keeps my creativity alive. I've always been more interested in what I could create on my own than what the instructions tell you to build anyway.
I have the turbo tank featured in the first minute of the video. I dont collect lego anymore due to cost and space but I cherish that set every time I look at the shelf.
I’ve been in the military for about 2 years and most people that I’ve told that I build LEGOs also build LEGOs. And it has always made me not feel alone as an adult buying a “tot for kids” when the marketing is obviously towards us who grew up on it in the early 2000s.
@@brickmasterharri I like that building Lego Technic MOCs gives more challenge than official sets. But, sourcing specific parts to build the MOCs can be quite time consuming.
I'm just about a month older than you! That feels crazy. I just bought the knockoff lego "warframe liset orbiter" and bought the instructions from the MOC artist. Grown up money means grown up sized spaceships (i wasn't going to pay the Bricklink price lmao)
For me there are multiple reasons. Building is relaxing and helps a great deal with my PTS. Building also holds core memories from when I was a kid and building now brings those memories back. My wife just watches me and my daughter has her own collection.
I don't think that trying to experience my Childhood again is the reason I build LEGO again. I've had a time where I was occupied with other things and didn't get Sets for years. My Family frowned upon the idea of gifting LEGO to me like they used to. I also wasn't having as much fun with them. I believe I one day got into the lego TH-cam space. I remembered how fun it was and since I earned money, had time and Space. I looked around and saw what cool things they have and decided to buy some. I remember asking myself why I stopped collecting because I had so much fun.
Honestly I didn’t really have much of a child hood from the time I was 8 I lost my father so collecting legos and having them on display brings out the inner child in me and brings me joy I usually only collect Star Wars because I’ve grown up with something about building your own set just brings me joy
Why do I like Lego? because I like to build things. Plastic model kits only let you build it once. Lego is better because I can take it apart and eventually build it again.
I love playing with my sets. I couldn’t afford Lego as a kid, and I only had a few small sets, so when I play with all the amazing sets I have now as an adult I feel like I’m healing my inner child. Lego is fun, first and foremost.
I got back into building some sets as an adult, but mostly because: 1. I can now afford it. 2. You have access to alternative sources than just the LEGO brand at much more reasonable prices. 3. Sets are much better than they used to be. I'm very impressed in what can be done with technic legos. I'm especially interested in cars or vehicles and while there was some in the 90s, it wasn't anywhere near as good.
My goal as an adult is to display castle/pirate sets in a way that stimulates the imagination. As a kid i had time to "play" by acting out full battles and stories. But now, i can do much that in my mind just by looking at the set
especially helps when i have legos from decades ago, and forgot about lego and come back now and can combine the new with the old, feels the same with the nostalgia
I think you are absolutely right, legos not only hold memories but they make you experience them again
Ohhhh wow this is well said!!
I love lego for the amount of creativity
So true!
In the last few years I had real problems to enjoy Christmas, but last Christmas I bought myself an old 2002 Harry Potter Set (Chamber of Secrets) and not only was I excited again but also felt the same magic again that I felt when putting together the 2001 Hogwarts Castle as a kid.
Lego really helps me reliving my childhood memorie and, in some way, make new ones.
Mate David beckham loves Lego so it’s ok no matter what age
this is especially hard as a teenager because people think that you “haven’t matured yet” and i get bullied at my high school because i started the LEGO club there and people judge me for not “growing out” of LEGO.
that was the longest comment i’ve ever made on a video
You're the audience I really wanted this video to reach! Don't listen to those people. You can totally mature while still enjoying a fun hobby. So cool of you to start a club!
As someone who’s graduated college & is now working for one of the biggest & most professional companies in the world. None of what those people say matter brother. Enjoy it, I got back into Lego & regret never being able to get into Lego when I was younger. Keep doing you man, be yourself.
I'm a teenager and I still really enjoy Lego and I've always mentioned to people that "you can never be told old for Lego".
Omg frrr it’s so weird in high school and especially as a girl it’s even harder to even find people you can geek out with
Personally I think the reason I like Lego is because I can finally get the sets I wished I could afford as a kid ( plus I could have a cool display piece )
Couldn’t have said it better man!
Solid reason!
Lmao that’s my exact reason in November I was finally able to get the assembly square a set I wanted since I was little just before it retired
Same
@@michael-sl7zo cool, I got myself the Ewok Village in october
I am 57 yrs old and got my first set, LEGO Police car set 611 in 1973. When my favorite toy and my favorite movie joined, I was all in. Now my collection is out of control with Star Wars (almost all of them since the beginning), Iron Man, Bat Mobiles, NASA, the bigger cars, and the Botanicals. Building a new set is my Happy Place. My granddaughter knows the difference between Papa's LEGOs and her LEGOs. She helps me build a ship and we fly it around the house then put it on a shelf, then we build her princess castle or Spiderman set and fight the villains.
That was my first set too! I've rebuilt it since, the printed bricks are the original ones but they still fit with new ones even after 50 years.
I am 55 and mine is getting out of control too LOL. Just built the new Viking Vilalge set this past weekend. Looking forward to the LoTR Black Tower coming out later this year. Rivendell last year was an amazing build.
Your never too old to enjoy Lego
I'll be honest, I'm 25 and on the Autism Spectrum. A lot of Spectrum people, myself included, keep their childhood hobbies and just expand on them instead of "growing outta them." Dinosaurs became Paleontology, Lego just... kept being Lego. I'm just still Dani. Dani likes Lego. Simple as that. ♡
W comment. Even neurotypical individuals shouldn’t be ashamed about expending their childhood passions into their adulthood. Just because ours happens to be Lego, doesn’t mean it should be looked down upon. Why should we let others ruin our childhood fun?
Wowee I'm 17 and yea autistic
I have autism too and love building since I was a kid.
This is true, as a fellow spectrum kid I can confirm Lego has stayed Lego and I'll never stop loving it for that.
@@ZoeAnderson-d2w neat pfp
The old LEGO website is such a throwback, I spent so many hours on there as a kid playing all the flash games.
The old rebels platformer was brilliant.
I remember grinding out the Indiana jones runner where you escape the boulder and stuff. For some reason our computer didn’t save my progress so one night I just completed the whole thing after weeks of perfecting my runs lol
the old lego racing stunt arena was my GAME that and I have a core memory of my friend doing the shooting and me doing the moving around to beat Dino Attack
Im trying to think of this racing game they had on there your comment brought the memory back lol just dk the name
I am a 22 year old man, I turn 23 this year as well. My reason for loving LEGO so much is because I get to play with them and create my own stories. I would even write down how I would want the story to go, and it makes me really happy. When I have a short amount of time to play with my LEGO I just pull out a few minifigs and just play for a bit, but whenever I have a lot of time, I pull out some sets and just go crazy and create a elaborate story with lore lol. As someone who has come to terms with loving certain hobbies and enjoying whatever I do without carrying who judges me, it can get a a little exhausting hearing the same things repeated such as "arent you too old to play with toys?" or "That's really weird as an adult" etc... I just try to move on but sometimes it does get to me. Yes I have a job and I go to college full time and I have many bills like everyone else does, but I feel that people ignore that part of me and just see the me playing with LEGO and it makes people go away from me. It has happened quiet often where I would meet new people and I would mention how I love LEGO, and they automatically just think its weird, but when I get home from those terrible outings I pull out my LEGO and I start playing with them and it really just boost my mood because even though many people will leave me I just know that my LEGOs will always be there for me.
I told about 30 employees at work that I collect only star wars lego and I could care less what they think about it and to this day I have about a handful of coworkers ask me how am I doing collecting... now im not going to make it sound like it's all gravy because there are some employees that did give me a weird look, but I'm 33 years old. I don't give two shits😂😂
You might be the most self confidant, borderline cocky 33 yo AFOL I ever read about! haha I love it.
@sirw7630 you would be surprised, but there was one employee who actually had a large bin filled with old Lego, and he didn't want it anymore, so he gave it to me for free I obviously picked out what I wanted and then sold the rest to Bricks and minifigs for store credit.
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As an Adult it's an escape but it's also a way to help me stay away from drinking, and for me to help me connect with my niece and nephew. Seriously the time I've spent building Legos has helped me stay away from alcohol and helped keep me focused. It also helps me keep a budget, if theres a set I like, I look at the price then do the math and if I can afford it yeah I get it if it's not in the budget than I try again next month
On of the best advertisements that lego is good for mental health!
I am a child and the reason I collect LEGO is for the feeling of waiting months to get a new LEGO set and then finally building it, taking a good look at it, and then displaying it.
That's great to hear! Keep making those core memories bro🫡
@@brickmasterharri Thank you
I like having something to do that doesn't involve a screen for a change. It lets me do something else with my hands rather than hold a controller or use a keyboard.
Of course there are other hobbies that allow this, I've always liked Tabletop battle games like Warhammer but being dyspraxic I find precise fine motor skills like gluing and painting a small (and expensive) plastic figure very difficult. I know whatever I finish with will not even look as half as good as what is on the box art.
Lego on the other hand is simple with great instructions and it is always going to look great when you finish. There is no price for a mistake as everything can be dissasembled and reassembled.
Once I'm done I like messing about and taking pictures. With the Lego castle I besieged it with all the pink frogs I got from the alternate build of the bonsai tree and had the knights fighting them off from the battlements. I used the all pink minifig from the Everyone is Awesome set as the leader of the pink frog horde. Currently thinking of what they can battle next...
I play tabletop battle games with my Castle Lego 🙂
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The recent Dune ornithopter is a set that's specifically designed as a playset for adults. It is too heavy and too big to be comfortably held by most children, but the size of the tail, the intended handle, is strangely ergonomically perfect for adult hand, and it places most control mechanisms within reach. I love playing with mine, picking it up, flapping the wings a bit, it's a great stress reliever.
Well that’s the reason i hate the set. I wanted a display only piece. There are too many red and blue pins and a lot of exposed Technic to make the wings move. I view LEGO different. I Build the sets, Display them and pretty much never touch them again. So of cause I want them to look accurate (and not have technic and ugly colors showing)
@@xhearthfirex6571 Scale modelling will met your expectations much better than LEGO then.
Honestly my best friend and I made a whole LEGO Strategy Game so we could keep playing with our LEGO and creating stories after 'taking a break' from LEGO in high school and early college. Great video, thanks for sharing and encouraging us all to be a little more honest with ourselves.
And LEGO needs to make non-expensive castle sets with play features!!
im 61 grew up playing with it, then later with my bro as he was 10 yrs younger than me. then i had kids and played with their sets with them. now its grandkids and in my humble opinion you are NEVER too old to play with lego
I can honestly say that at 54 I play with Lego almost exactly the same way I used to do when I was 10.. but the thing is that for me it was always the design and creative building that appealed to me. When I was a kid I would swoosh things I'd built but only for a minute, then it was on to redesigning and "improving" the model with some features of my own devising. Me and my best friend used to buy the same models and then informally compete with the best mods and with best I mean craziest.
People in my school always say "legos are so childish" when they are bringing the most out of pocket toys to play with. I loves your vids and I hope u get to 100k soon!
I build only Star Wars sets, the big technic cars, and some misc sets that are just beautiful (like Rivendell). And I have a lot of Lego.
I enjoy the process of building (all kinds of things), displaying, and the subject matter that I built (loved pre-Disney Star Wars). It's fantastic in my office. Plus, I like kids going bonkers checking it out.
I'm 51.
As someone who has more than 5 decades riding this rock through space, allow me to encourage EVERYONE to embrace that attitude that every kid has about their favorite dinosaur and give zero f#cks about what someone else might think.
If you LOVE something that's "for kids" and it truly brings you contentment, don't apologize for your love of it. It's hard enough to find happiness in this world. Don't let others' judgment put you in a box you don't want to be in.
I had a short dark age as a late teen (sold my lego) and early twenties (studies). At age 22 I started collecting and playing Pokémon TCG. Met my pokémon-loving now-wife, and she loved collecting and playing with My Little Pony. And loved Nintendo and introduced me to Mario, Zelda, Kirby etc. I picked up Lego in 2022 and bought everything Star Wars and Classic Space. Then onto the modulars and “adult” sets. My wife enjoys (building) lego as well, as do my children. Nobody is above swooshing a space ship. Why would you (need to) lose the ability to play?
Most of my friends are into boardgames or Lego. They’re not judgemental at all about playing. My family (parents, siblings) kinda are. They’ve asked me hundreds of times “why don’t you sell -insert collection-“, because that’s what they would do, since they don’t understand. I always avoid talking about it, sunce it’s always a “waste of money”.
In the living room, I just have a bunch of modular building and spme adults sets. When people come over and ask, I just tell them I love Lego, and they’re like “oh that’s cool”.
Lego was a toy for children before the mid ‘80s, then expanded to teens (with expert sets and technic), then had a dark age in the late 90s (junior sets, bad themes), then started making sets for both children, teens ánd adult nerds from the early ‘00s (Star Wars, large sets, architecture etc) and now, early ‘20s, they’re expanding to “normal” adults. With sets like the typewriter, art sets, and especially the botanicals.
Just yesterday, at the mall, I saw advertsing for a Lego flowers set, aimed at adults (give flowers you can build together). This would’ve been absurd decades ago. Lego is becoming a sonewhat normal hobby for adults.
I feel ashamed sometimes when I build lego. Knowing you like to play lego too makes me feel better. Thanks for making this video! Forrestfire101 is so good!
There is no need to feel ashamed about building or playing with Lego
FWIW i totally play with my lego too! paladins battle orcs, there are space battles, and of course D&D
You hit the nail on the head! I wish I hadn’t stopped collecting LEGO during high school and most of college.
Great video Harri!
Sorry for making this sad right out of the gate, but it really ties into my reason. I’m 45, and 7 years ago my wife died. I picked Lego back up as a way to distract myself and, yes, to reconnect with my inner kid. But what I want to tell those who read this, is more important.
It led to me giving exactly zero….let’s say ‘hoots’ about what other people think about me and my hobbies. Yes, you’ll meet people who think it’s infantile. But what my wife taught me is that life is literally too short to spend even a second worrying about that. Please do what makes you happy and excuse yourself from the fake obligation of justifying it to others.
As an adult, I love the collectibility of lego. I appreciate things that hold value and can be proud of as a collectible.
People telling you 'Lego is for kids' when they collect dozens of Funko pop, lol ^^'
🤣 true
I enjoy Lego because it’s that part of my childhood I never have to grow out of, and my form of playing with my Legos is doing Stop Motions it’s so much fun grabbing two of my favorite figures and having them fight each other.
That's so sick! I tried stop motion when I was a kid, but never had the patience for it
@@brickmasterharri yea the last one I made took me all day but it’s always cool to see your hard work pay off.
I just turned 30 and love LEGO. If you have a hobby that doesn't hurt anyone and brings you joy - then there is no need to ever feel embarrassed about that. After about 25 I learned that if someone takes issue with your hobby, then that is their problem, not yours, and I just won't want to spend time with them.
That said, the best way to enjoy LEGO is with my toddler. Even after I put together the UCS Razor Crest she said "wow daddy i love it! Can we play with the spaceship?". Of course we can
The part about looking up all the content afterI get a set is SO TRUE. Super glad to mentioned this. I also love to look up content about it before it even arrives. Just to get more hyped.
as someone who’s currently 20 at the time of writing this, i got back into Lego last year because it was something that helped me take my mind off of a traumatic event that occurred in 2021. that feeling of rummaging through my bin and finding sets and rebuilding them and the satisfaction of clicking the bricks together really helped find something to pay attention to
I'm probably not your target audience because I'm 50 years old, but I'll tell you the truth. I lost what Lego meant to me for like 30-odd years. After nearly dying two years ago, I decided that it was my therapy. It's a wonderful, wholesome thing and I don't think anyone has room to criticize.
I wish social norms was why im barely into lego anymore. But its how it became even more expensive than it already was
My mom always says „Even adults Play and Build With Lego“
If someone is going to judge me harshly for surrounding myself with sculptures made from plastic bricks they can take a hike. I don’t need that kind of negativity in my life.
Shout out to you man. This is something I’ve experienced a lot. As a teenager I took all my sets down after a bad break up because I felt that it was too childish and I needed to grow up. Now i’m 26 and have recently got back into buying cool sets and have found it’s an incredibly cathartic and relaxing hobby, which has made me love it much more than when I was younger. It’s taken me away from more destructive past times e.g. drinking etc, and has allowed me to access a creative and imaginative side that i’d long hidden because of some random shame that other people had imparted. I choose to live my life the way I want, with enjoyment, excitement and imagination!
That's awesome man thanks for sharing! I agree that LEGO just puts you in a different headspace. It's the perfect escape
I'm a 42yr old veteran. Building and playing around with the ships and the minifigures after helps with my ptsd.
I love that. Thank you for your service!!
I am 46 yers old.Got into lego about three years ago.Started with lego technic and now lego star wars is my favourite.Still building the technic though .My friends and coworkers don't understand how could I spent so much money on "toys".They always say "you could have bought a brand new car for that money".But I don't want a brand new car.I want to keep spending money on lego .Because I love it!!!The space is a problem though.Looks like my 3 bedroom apartment is not big enough.But I always find new places to put the new sets :-).
I love it when sets have a good interior. Just like that Star destroyer you talked about in the video.
I am 56 and I don’t give a dime about what people say or think. When they will start paying my rent, my bills, and buy my Lego sets, then they may have a say. Until then…
Lego away !!!
I’m 49 and I like that it takes me away from my phone. It is engaging enough to focus me but not too intense that I get burned out. The sets are so fun to see coming together. I played with Lego as a kid too and I still have the same excitement for getting a new set as I did then. I don’t think you have to stop doing everything as an adult, there are certainly worse things you can do with your time.
2 reasons i like this hobby.
I can finally buy all the shit I wanted when I was a kid, that my parents wouldn't buy me.
I don't have a girlfriend/wife/family and pretty much no responsibilities. So why the hell shouldn't I do with my money, whatever I want? People have other expensive hobbies that others couldn't care less about. Cars, baseball card collections, guitar collections whatever the fuck. Live and leave be
I love seeing the different ways to use the pieces and the build creativity, so my favorite is to purchase instructions for all the builds, and I have fun taking the sets apart and building new things. This also gets me lots of time handling and admiring the pieces, and having fun sorting them out
Think the thing that made me love lego again as an adult is how incredibly well designed the system is. It’s crazy what the element designers are able to do and I have a deep appreciation for it
I continually marvel at the engineering involved as I build a set.
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― C.S. Lewis
woke up and decided to comment facts on this video🔥
When I’m building a set I’m actually imagining that the minifigs that come in the set are spaceship mechanics and are building the ship.
I even bought a Stormtrooper mech to add an extra “tool” for the mechanics to do some of the heavy lifting.
During the building I will place the mechanics and the tools in various positions to make it look like they’re actually working on an engine or a wing.
I’ll be 35 next week, no shame! Love Lego en love your vids man
100% agree. It's so sad to see more and more Lego sets being marketed and intended as "display pieces", something that, once built, is supposed to be put on a shelf and that's it. Heck, even their name is an abbreviation of "play well" in Danish. Now it's just "build well" for too many sets.
Funny how the people who diss us for having a real hobby are the ones who live their lives on tiktok and other social media that is nothing but sad.
Then they tell us off when we actually have fun with what we do and it bothers them that they canr get the same satisfaction from what they do.
But also, we dont grow up we just grow old.
Im 40, done all my growing up years ago and feel no shame for loving the brick. I like making scenes complete with whatever is needed and then take it apart and organize it. I buy pab boxes every Wednesday and will continue to do so. Got mother into it and finally got my 19 year old daughter back into it. 😂
As a 14 year old lego fan I can get this. My parents think I'm silly that I still like legos and spend lots of money on them. (Example: I recently bought the lego ghost) I'll never age out of Lego and whatever they think won't make me stop liking Lego.
I am 20 years old, and yet, when i build lego i always forget the world a bit and relax, i build my mocs with play features but i still try to make them look good, i love it and i personally still play with my lego, obviously not as intense or as super often as back in the day but i still do and i won't stop.
I’m 60 years old and love building with Lego. My in laws think I’m turning back into a child. Oh well I’m going to have my fun. I’ve had the same job for 40 years it’s time to start enjoying life again.
This hit on another level, I remember being a kid and always wanting to be a master builder, then teenage years and adulthood hit and I pushed all of that aside. Went to Legoland after 12 years with my mom for this past Mothers Day and wow, that little version of me was screaming. Definitely going to invest more into Lego, whether it just be a hobby or heck, starting a YT myself which you have inspired me to consider. Thanks Harri, keep building and inspiring this generation and others to reconnect with their inner child and to not the let the world and people's judgement take it away!
ADHD here: They help me Zen. Bright colors, tactile activity, and instructions that allow me to shut off my brain. I love the building process and seeing shadow form, and techniques used to make some really odd shapes. I love putting together an amorphous blob of bricks and then finally realizing what it's becoming. Knowing what the end product is going to be; knowing what my efforts are going towards reduces anxiety and registers in my as an achievable goal. And I love knowing that when it's finished, I touched and placed every single brick, giving me an odd, enhanced sense of ownership.
I love planning on how and where I'll display them. I love that every time I look at them, each one gives me its own unique boost of dopamine. I love when someone is over and is really taken aback by what they're seeing, that it's Lego, and the wonder on their face. I love being a man in his 40's and openly talking about Lego as a hobby, people giving me the side-eye about it, I show them, and they almost immediately one-eighty and understand why people dig them so much (many will also see something and say that they'd like to have one). I love that a small, but well thought-out Lego set makes an amazing and impactful gift to an adult that doesn't do Lego. (Try it some time. Get a small set, under $30 is a good price, that's meaningful to the person in some way, and just watch what happens. ❤ )
Now, why do I buy the ones I buy?
They make me happy. And, for me, it doesn't matter why. 😊
The clip you flying the ship around hits hard. Literally cried through the whole video.
I smile when i hear people talk about the age requirement of Lego based on the opinion of others . I am 65 years old and got into Lego for the first time in my life a few years ago with the UCS Falcon . I suffer from severe anxiety and Lego has literally saved my life and if society doesnt approve then society can go to hell . lol
Why dont people just stop worrying about what someone else thinks about your hobbies? As long as it doesn’t harm anyone, it’s really not relevant what someone else thinks.
I’m 20, the most fun thing I do is set up old scenes from movies and shows like the Clone Wars then admiring the scene for awhile. I also like them on my display shelves. The quality in Lego has bothered me with a few false advertising errors and low quality mini figs. The UCS Captain Rex from the Venator is exceptionally bad, no one can lie. And stop saying that the new helmet holes are ok. They are out of place, they make the rangefinders look horrible, and the helmets are misshapen with them. If anything, change the visor molds and binocular molds so you aren’t ruining the look of the whole figure. And No, printed waist capes and printed pauldrons don’t look good.
When you said "I'm overobsessed with the escape it provides" that shit really resonated
I have fully loaded my UCS Republic Gunship with various clone troopers from in my collection! I've even rotated the minifigs a few times, taking pictures and temporarily making a Siege of Mandalore gunship! As a kid, I was creating battle scenes and crashing my Star Wars ships, minfigs and Knights Kingdom minifigs into each other all the time. Now as an adult collector, I often play with my sets in my head, to ensure I don't crash and break them. But smaller sets, I will play with them and fly them around, just carefully.
I never knew what I was getting myself into when I first started collecting in 2017
I’m 37 and still enjoy building and playing Lego! The best part is having Lego battles with my kids, we’ll set up epic battles in the basement like Star Wars vs Ninjago, it’s so much fun.
I've been recommended/seen your shorts a bunch but never a video, but as a 34 year old I 100% agree that I want Lego sets to have play features. I want my Lego sets to be just as they were to me as a kid, sure they can be more expensive/bigger since I can afford more, but I still want them to be focused on fun. Nothing is worse than the UCS sets that have literally not a single feature at all and are just a massive super expensive model that comes with a minifigure (that can't even be used with the model in any meaningful way) to display with it statically.
28 here. Don't give a damn about other people's opinions. It's my life.
i’m 19 going on 20 and have built lego my whole life, when people ask me i say well i’ve liked it since i was a kid, i love playing with an army of clone troopers and having them fight the droid army, displaying them on a battlefield or placing them in fighters and flying them around, it’s just good fun
It’s not only nostalgic for me but I wanna build memories for my kids one day. It’s not just about the display but I hope my kids enjoy legos so much with dad they look back one day and think it was an amazing part of their childhood. My collection is not just for me its for playing legos with my kids one day, that’s goals!
1 I love the universes they depict (Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Christmas collections)
2 They are often colorful and beautiful (floral collections and the medieval forge, for example)
3 Assembling them is a meditative, submersive, thoughtful and relaxing activity
4 I've always had a collector's itch for things I enjoy
5 Their little faces are happy and make you feel good 😂😊
I don't give a **** about what other people think. When you see how messed up the world is, how corrupt, how violent, how petty and jealous, how mixed-up, how many people are willing to vote a dictator into power, how many people believe in invisible gods and other such nonsense... you have to wonder why you would care about what these people think.
I do not typically "play" with any of my LEGO as a kid would, but rather take apart sets I have acquired and rebuild into different MOCs.
As someone who's terminally online, Lego is a line way for we to log off and relax while still doing something engaging.
That and a nice hit of nostalgia.
I am 35 year old engineer and I'm not the only Lego and Star Wars fan in that engineering firm. When some of my colleagues came to see my new apartment they gifted me several Star Wars themed mugs, socks, Star Wars logo light, doormat and other stuff. Then they went on to play with my lego sets and lightsabers. Now we also have several Lego flowers and other nerd stuff in the office. We're quite good at our job too :D
I’m nearly 60, I build Lego simply for the enjoyment of building. It relaxes me after a stressful day at work and it like therapy to me. After I get to many sets I turn around and sell them and yes, I use that money to buy more sets.
I work in IT, everybody around me is nerdy in one way or another. At least three of us tho are into Lego, me included. Nobody cares, everyone has fun with whatever hobby they have.
Is there really a difference between being a Lego hobbiest then building diecast models, collecting coins, or other things? In the big picture, no.
I rediscovered Lego in my 50s. I have no kids, lots of disposable income, and seem to be addicted to 'clicking'. Like others have said, I have various elements of ASD that leave me unfulfilled during forced socialization. Only problem I'm having is...where to put all this stuff!! There's some catharsis and stress relief involved in knowing the final product will be perfect (everything in its place).
Absolutely no problem admitting that I play with Lego for an escape from too serious of stuff in the adult world.
Great video man, really spoke to me! I’ve been playing with my old legos again and buying new sets as well. I’ve created a whole world and story with 30+ different characters and it’s such a great creative outlet, really helps me escape for a bit from the worries and troubles of my life. My dad has become homeless this last year and I think that’s what’s caused me to look for different ways to occupy myself.
It’s also important to mention that I too feel super insecure about playing with my legos but I think what makes things easier is that I have a girlfriend who I live with who doesn’t judge me at all. She even asks about any updates to the story going on in my Lego world, and of course I tell her all about it.
Thank you! That sounds amazing🤣 Story must be so fleshed out by now🔥
When I was much younger, in the 70/80''s, I had lots of bricks but don't remember it actually coming in any sets. So pretty much everything I built was a product of my own imagination. I started buying Technic sets recently (mostly cars). I really enjoy the building but I'm not bothered about displaying or playing with them. (I hate the stickers too, as they seem wrong). It just gives me something productiive to do in the evenings. My mum used to love doing jigsaws and it's pretty much the same thing.
Building Lego sets helps me relax and stop thinking about everything going on and just exist in the moment. And its something that my son and I can do together
I see other comments saying the same thing, but I also totally agree with everything you said and that being a Lego fan is hard sometimes.
Wow i pretended to be sick all the time when i was in school. Absolutely hated it. Complete waste of time. Didn't learn anything important and the bullying was awful.
I've always had a very active imagination and creative drive, so me rediscovering Lego as an adult has been a blast.
I enjoy writing stories or creating worlds/settings and then creating scenes, characters and locations from those. I just love that type of activity and figuring out the best way to build and showcase those things.
For me, it gives me joy being able to buy these expensive toys with huge boxes now when we weren’t well off enough to buy me many toys when I was a kid. One core memory I have was when I wanted a $40 Godzilla toy back when we watched the first American Godzilla movie. My parents fought because one wanted to buy it for me but we didn’t really have the budget for it. I still feel kinda guilty spending money on what many feel like it’s a “waste” but hey, YOLO right.
I got back into Lego last year and it’s something I love but deep down I care what people think. I hate going into stores to buy Lego because of what people might think about me. Thanks for making this video!
I'd always get nervous talking about it with my friends even if they don't care that I collect and what not. Overtime as I've grown older and collected more and got more accepting of it, I've been able to be more open about. Like you and having turned 20 it's slowly become a nice escape back to when I was a kid especially since I've been getting stuff I remember wanting as a kid
I like building and I enjoy the completion aspect. Plus, they display wonderfully!
A Lego set you want to fly around has high “swooshability”.
It all depends on what sort of collector you are.
I like certain sets but, I really love the pieces and figures.
I tend to buy secondhand bulk lots to sort and eventually get into MOCs.
Collecting certain parts in all colours is really fun for me.
I don't really "play" with Lego. What I love are the sets made purely for display. Something that lets me show off my love for Lego. My apartment is littered with Star Wars UCS, and my desk at work is decorated with Helmet series items.
Lego and other building blocks help me put the phone down and disengage from all the negative stuff being thrown at us.
I used to play with LEGO with my friends as a kid... it was the best, after a few hours building whatever we imagined, we'd then get to make up whole stories around them and feel like we'd gone on a whole adventure. Then one day they decided playing with LEGO that way was too childish and made them uncomfortable, and that was the moment my favorite memories of childhood ended as I was the last of them to stop wanting to do that. They're all in their dark ages now, but I never stopped collecting and building with LEGO, and still do so as an adult.
It amuses me that as adults we have to justify creative play by calling it something else. Instead of playing pretend, we establish rules and make it a roleplaying game so it feels more serious. What are we so afraid of? In the end it's the same thing. But, I digress.
Nowadays building with LEGO and revisiting LEGO themes from my childhood reminds me of the raw imaginative energy of childhood, and I feel like it keeps my creativity alive. I've always been more interested in what I could create on my own than what the instructions tell you to build anyway.
I have the turbo tank featured in the first minute of the video. I dont collect lego anymore due to cost and space but I cherish that set every time I look at the shelf.
That is also my most cherished set🙌
I’ve been in the military for about 2 years and most people that I’ve told that I build LEGOs also build LEGOs. And it has always made me not feel alone as an adult buying a “tot for kids” when the marketing is obviously towards us who grew up on it in the early 2000s.
I built Lego Technic RC 4wd MOCs by looking for instructions on Rebrickable. I no longer buy official sets as they are really too expensive.
That's reasonable! Does that process still give you that same joy?
@@brickmasterharri I like that building Lego Technic MOCs gives more challenge than official sets. But, sourcing specific parts to build the MOCs can be quite time consuming.
I'm just about a month older than you! That feels crazy. I just bought the knockoff lego "warframe liset orbiter" and bought the instructions from the MOC artist. Grown up money means grown up sized spaceships (i wasn't going to pay the Bricklink price lmao)
For me there are multiple reasons. Building is relaxing and helps a great deal with my PTS. Building also holds core memories from when I was a kid and building now brings those memories back. My wife just watches me and my daughter has her own collection.
I don't think that trying to experience my Childhood again is the reason I build LEGO again.
I've had a time where I was occupied with other things and didn't get Sets for years. My Family frowned upon the idea of gifting LEGO to me like they used to. I also wasn't having as much fun with them.
I believe I one day got into the lego TH-cam space. I remembered how fun it was and since I earned money, had time and Space. I looked around and saw what cool things they have and decided to buy some.
I remember asking myself why I stopped collecting because I had so much fun.
Honestly I didn’t really have much of a child hood from the time I was 8 I lost my father so collecting legos and having them on display brings out the inner child in me and brings me joy I usually only collect Star Wars because I’ve grown up with something about building your own set just brings me joy
Thank you. I completely agree. Adults need to let go of their pride and allow themselves to enjoy being kids again.
Just like to display it and don't give a funk about others! I'm 50 ant proud collector of Lego SWs with my son! Also since 2021! Lets GO
Why do I like Lego? because I like to build things. Plastic model kits only let you build it once. Lego is better because I can take it apart and eventually build it again.
I love playing with my sets. I couldn’t afford Lego as a kid, and I only had a few small sets, so when I play with all the amazing sets I have now as an adult I feel like I’m healing my inner child. Lego is fun, first and foremost.
I adore my Lego Dune Ornithopter. It’s the ideal set for an adult who plays with their sets.
DUDE YES that thing is SO sick
I got back into building some sets as an adult, but mostly because:
1. I can now afford it.
2. You have access to alternative sources than just the LEGO brand at much more reasonable prices.
3. Sets are much better than they used to be. I'm very impressed in what can be done with technic legos. I'm especially interested in cars or vehicles and while there was some in the 90s, it wasn't anywhere near as good.
My goal as an adult is to display castle/pirate sets in a way that stimulates the imagination. As a kid i had time to "play" by acting out full battles and stories. But now, i can do much that in my mind just by looking at the set
especially helps when i have legos from decades ago, and forgot about lego and come back now and can combine the new with the old, feels the same with the nostalgia