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by moultano·6y ago·view on hn ↗
When I was first looking into buying Lego sets for my kids I felt the same way, but I've completely turned around. Legos are way better than they were when I was a kid. Check out the 3-in-1 line. They're brilliantly designed. A few of my favorites:

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/deep-sea-creatures-31088

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/mighty-dinosaurs-31058

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/underwater-robot-31090

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/riverside-houseboat-31093

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/outback-cabin-31098

I also used to be bummed that Lego retired their standalone fantastical space ships line, in favor of making everything about starwars, but instead they've now based their space line on actually realistic spaceships, and it feels like a much better fit. When my son builds Lego rockets now, it makes him want to learn about all the NASA missions they're based on. He ends up learning about the parts of real rockets that are reflected in the Lego models.

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/deep-space-rocket-and-lau...

2 comments
Wow. That it... so cool. I had no idea.

I've heard the "Lego sets are worse now" meme for so long I just assumed it was true.

But all those sets look utterly fantastic, and you're right -- even better than when I was a kid. I would have killed for all those.

Thanks for the info. For whatever reason, that just put me in a great mood to start my day. :)

The "Lego sets are worse now" meme seems to be a combination of people having overly rosey memories of how good Lego used to be (80s Lego was not as amazing as people make it out to be) and people checking in during one of Lego's slumps (they've had a few) and never checking again.

I'm pretty happy with where Lego is today.

Eh, they had realistic space ships before - one of my favorite sets was the Space Shuttle (6339)!