Quote Originally Posted by UltraMarginal View Post
I remember in the 90's I think when they tried to simplify lego with large moulded pieces, especially bases for the large playset sets. Pirates and Medieval sets really suffered from this design trend. it put me and many others off, if I remember they nearly closed up shop.

These days they have turned that around and lego is better now than it's ever been with sets being developed by the fan community and licenced sets from NASA to the simpsons. I don't buy a lot of it at the moment, in the last few years I've bought Benny's spaceship space ship SPACESHIP!!, the lego creator set of the F-35 and the Lego Technic Set of the F-35. Late last year I bought the Saturn V.
I could not agree with this more, the 90's were Lego's dark time putting both my brother and I off it for almost a decade, Star Wars reignited the passion and my five year old daughter has thrown a large amount of accelerant on to it.

When she was little I bought her heaps of Duplo but she showed very little interest in it, she would "help" me build Star Wars, now she builds her own Lego sets, Princesses and Friends, its just amazing to see her little hands put sets together designed for older kids.

Thanks to her enthusiasm we have branched out into trains and building a town. As someone else has stated due to the recent lack of decent TF releases as well as no Star Wars sets that really interest me at the moment there is spare money to get into this type of thing.
................................Space is always the issue with Lego though.