The toy LEGOs hot theft item in California, 2,800 sets found in home

Nathan said:
I never thought of Legos as being a hot commodity. Does anyone have enough attention span to build anything with Legos?
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Legos are currently huge with people of all ages. My oldest sisters brother in law spends a lot building and displaying certain sets. He just currently finished one of the Eifel Tower. I have a friend who is middle aged and she and her husband have an a section of their living room devoted to their Star Wars Lego sets. I guess it is just a hobby to some, much like painting or woodworking is to others.
 
JBR said:
I know I could do a Google search... I know what Legos are. The cheap to manufacture plastic toy building blocks, right?

I'm totally ignorant & dumbfounded! Maybe somebody can clue me. How did Legos become this hot, sought-after item coveted by thieves?!
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Fads or craze have been in around but in the day and age of internet they intensify. And that includes selling and buying them online. Ebay and others are considered a fencing operation by some along with ease of access/delivery to one's door.

I think there's a LEGO tv show but there are other 'toy' based shows and I don't those becoming high theft items. I think there's a Hot Wheels show but they don't seem to be high theft or expensive items.

Maybe that's why LEGO authorized a show-for marketing
 
Here is a link to a list of the most expensive Lego sets.

https://brickfact.com/blog/lists/the-top-10-most-expensive-lego-sets-the-updated-list


I guess some adults started doing Lego sets as kids and now are passing their passion on to their kids or in some cases their grandkids. I used to do models when I was a kid and I remember that there were cheap model kits for kids but there were also some very expensive model kits for adults. I guess Legos have become the same type of thing now.
 
JBR said:
I know I could do a Google search... I know what Legos are. The cheap to manufacture plastic toy building blocks, right?

I'm totally ignorant & dumbfounded! Maybe somebody can clue me. How did Legos become this hot, sought-after item coveted by thieves?!
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Not so much any more. Lots of specialized and painted parts, think plastic scale models for those with low skills and less connection with reality.

Mass market crap, highly promoted by Disney and other malevolent corporations. A pinnacle of conspicuous consumption and sign of cultural decline. Something to do while exploited illegal immigrants clean your house, mow your lawn, raise your kids, etc.
 
Thanks.
dilettante said:
Not so much any more. Lots of specialized and painted parts, think plastic scale models for those with low skills and less connection with reality.
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dilettante said:
Mass market crap, highly promoted by Disney and other malevolent corporations. A pinnacle of conspicuous consumption and sign of cultural decline. Something to do while exploited illegal immigrants clean your house, mow your lawn, raise your kids, etc.
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Hmm...
 
What is it about Legos that made them so popular and desirable.?

LEGO, plastic building-block toys that rose to massive popularity in the mid-20th century. It has been one of the most successful game brands in marketing history.

LEGO blocks originated in the Billund, Denmark, workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen, who began making wooden toys in 1932. Two years later he named his company LEGO after the Danish phrase leg godt (“play well”). In 1949 LEGO produced its first plastic brick, a precursor to its signature brick with interlocking studs on the top and tubes on the bottom. It was patented in 1958 by Christiansen’s son Godtfred Kirk, who replaced his father as the head of the company.

LEGO bricks soon caught on throughout Europe, and in 1968 the first LEGOLAND theme park opened in Billund (additional parks were later established in other locations internationally). In 1969 the company started selling the DUPLO line of larger bricks for young children who had trouble handling the regular LEGO bricks. Nine years later LEGO introduced Minifigures, the typically smiling yellow humanoids that became regular presences in the company’s themed play sets. MINDSTORMS products, which centre on a programmable robotics pack containing customized bricks, were first launched in 1998, and they went through multiple iterations of increasing complexity over the succeeding years.

The basic LEGO brick has remained the same since it was patented, and this simple, child-friendly design has been credited with the toy’s longevity. As a result, these bricks have saturated the culture of childhood throughout much of the world. LEGO, which has remained in the Christiansen family for generations, was among the inaugural inductees to the U.S. National Toy Hall of Fame in 1998 and was named “Toy of the Century” by multiple authorities in 2000. LEGO blocks have been used to create everything from massive replicas of famous monuments (such as the Eiffel Tower and Mount Rushmore) to modern art.


The LEGO Movie
Scene from The LEGO Movie (2014).
In the 21st century the LEGO brand spun off into multiple electronic games—including a series of popular Minifigure action-adventure games centred on famed pop-culture properties such as the Star Wars films, Batman, Marvel Comics superheroes, and the Harry Potter books—as well as The LEGO Movie (2014), a hit computer-animated feature film that also revolved around the exploits of Minifigures. One of the fan-favourite characters from that film, Batman, was the subject of a stand-alone spin-off, T


LEGO | History & Facts
 
I think the Pandemic started the mania; people home going crazy with boredom.

My grandson, 6, can do 1K piece sets almost entirely on his own now, dealing with the instruction manual mostly by himself. He finished all the kits from his birthday. He told his dad 'I think I deserve a 'reward' for doing all these Legos' and my son asks 'what reward?' and grandson says 'More Legos!'

@Ronni showed us some gorgeous Lego stuff for grown-ups. I would love to do bouquets of Lego flowers but my cats won't let me!
 
Grandson built jets with Legos. Then he turned his attention to Roblox and builds Jets, tanks, Stuff. Much more fun he says and much less expensive too. The Lego planes lay in pieces in plastic cups now.

Lego's never got much of a care from me, maybe crawling around on the floor changed me. My interest, cementing popsicle sticks, became building 2x4" and 2x6" walls, rooms and stuff. Cementing posts into the ground became fun for me. Mount the Post hole digger on the JD 3 point hitch, dig a hole and cement a Corner post into it. Hand mixing the cement was good work fun too. That led to building Fence and
Barbed wire twisting. Electric Fence pranking was fun too. That all led to building the Club House which led to building the Immigrant Tomato Workers Shelters. Rulers, Math, Wood, fasteners and Saws Led to a life of Struggles. Don't get me started with dry wall and mudding. haha
 
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RadishRose said:
Are they planning to build their dream house?
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Already happened. :)

James May and his full-size Lego house nobody wants​

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Article is filled with pictures of the interior designs. you will be amazed. ( maybe ) :)

James May and his full-size Lego house nobody wants
 
Nathan said:
I never thought of Legos as being a hot commodity. Does anyone have enough attention span to build anything with Legos?
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Interesting you should ask...

My oldest son was diagnosed with "hyper-kenesis" when he was a tot. Today it's ADD/ADHD. Playing with Legos helped him learn to focus his energy on one thing, to concentrate, and it greatly increased his attention span. Basically, Legos helped him realize he was capable of self-control.

Best gift I could have gotten him at the time.
 
Murrmurr said:
Interesting you should ask...

My oldest son was diagnosed with "hyper-kenesis" when he was a tot. Today it's ADD/ADHD. Playing with Legos helped him learn to focus his energy on one thing, to concentrate, and it greatly increased his attention span. Basically, Legos helped him realize he was capable of self-control.

Best gift I could have gotten him at the time.
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It's been awhile since I heard the term "hyper-kenesis", my son was labeled that in the first week of kindergarten, he was going to get kicked out if something wasn't done. The school wanted him to be placed on Ritalin, we refused. Instead, we gave him a half tablet of Nodoz, which did the trick. His teacher asked that we send the other half tablet with him to school, to be taken after lunch. One time we forgot to send it, the teacher sent us a note to "be sure not to forget".

Ironically, he is presently taking a medication- Ritalin. My son has been down a rocky road because of his ADD/ADHD, but he's channeled it well to his benefit. He just finished law school and will be taking the Bar Exam in July.
 
Nathan said:
It's been awhile since I heard the term "hyper-kenesis", my son was labeled that in the first week of kindergarten, he was going to get kicked out if something wasn't done. The school wanted him to be placed on Ritalin, we refused. Instead, we gave him a half tablet of Nodoz, which did the trick. His teacher asked that we send the other half tablet with him to school, to be taken after lunch. One time we forgot to send it, the teacher sent us a note to "be sure not to forget".

Ironically, he is presently taking a medication- Ritalin. My son has been down a rocky road because of his ADD/ADHD, but he's channeled it well to his benefit. He just finished law school and will be taking the Bar Exam in July.
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I KNOW what you're talking about! I went rounds with a few of Grant's school principals. One teacher thought he had epilepsy, another wanted to put him in "special school", etc. But I fought for him.

We tried a medication called Cylert, but just over the summer break between grammar school and Jr high. He said it helped *a little*.

Grant managed a military career, if you can believe that. Think of the discipline, right? He retired a Chief Petty Officer after 23yrs with the SeaBees; Construction Battalion, has a very successful civilian career as a metals engineer, and he's a long-time member of the Iron Workers Union and one of their instructors.

I honestly credit the Legos. They were the turning point for him. Great therapy, imo.
 

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