[samstave]

>>*half the value of buying a kit these days is that you aren’t spending hours finding needles in a 300lb haystack.*

Are you NUTS?

Are you trying to shame my 1980s values with LEGO?

"I KNOW that FN piece is in here!!!! I JUST SAW IT!!!!"

You're robbing your kids of a life lesson. and better image recognition, memory, sorting processing thoughts, etc.

There are so many lessons embedded in working with LEGO that can only be learnt through the frustration of a F-ton of brix in a bin and your looking for that specific 1x2 -- or worse yet, 1x1 smooth piece.

I used to buy things in bulk from LEGO at the mall in San Jose and just have bins of smooth pieces and other were parts...

[usefulcat]

I get what you're saying, but in a large pile, finding the right piece is easily 10x harder now because the number of unique LEGO parts is much, much higher than when you and I were kids.

[samstave]

Ah, I mis-interpreted that.. and I agree. I hate the custom/uniques that lego builds with some lame co-branding like a movie with DC/Marvel....

Lego is by default the foundationaly builing block.

I HATE custom pieces to a lego set.