>loving a neat little new gimmick toy is bad because....it just is okkkk!!!!Why are r#dditors like this? The smart brick/smart play system from lego is awesome, did anyone see this video?Here:https://youtube.com/shorts/NXJlyDvnvHYThis is fire and I can't wait to buy the new sets, also the target demo is said to be 6-8 year olds, according to lego so why are manchildren seething so hard? This toy is awesome. I hope all themes get smart bricks. Why do they think it's cool to hate on something this awesome???
Smart Brick is the single greatest psychological stress test LEGO has ever deployed, and the onions display brigade failed it instantly.The reaction has been historic. Grown men with ring lights, shelf LEDs, and a thousand-yard stare are collapsing in real time because a *children’s toy* remembered it’s allowed to **do things**. “It’s not displayable” Yeah, correct. It’s not meant to sit motionless like your stagnant personality. LEGO didn’t design this for people whose idea of fun is rearranging dust once a fiscal quarter.These people don’t like LEGO Star Wars. They like **ownership theater**. They like purchasing validation, sealing it behind acrylic, and calling that a hobby. The Smart Brick shows up like a brick-shaped reality check and suddenly the whole ecosystem of manchildren realizes: oh no, this requires movement, imagination, and interaction—the three things they aggressively avoid. The meltdowns are *biblical*. “Muh minifig integrity!” Buddy, your minifigs have never bent a knee, turned a head, or participated in a single narrative. They exist in rigid neutral poses like soulless corporate mascots. The back printing could be the Dead Sea Scrolls and you’d never see it because they’re locked in a plastic sarcophagus forever. And here’s the funniest part: the Smart Brick is **good**. Loud, interactive, scenario-driven, encourages dogfights, missions, feedback—actual PLAY. Not “here’s another $160 gray slab with fake greebling so you can whisper ‘cinematic’ to yourself at night.” LEGO finally said “what if Star Wars felt like action again?” and half the adult fandom immediately went into cardiac arrest.Yes, the tech isn’t magic yet. Lights and sounds. Congrats, we’ve had that since the Bush administration. But the *direction* is correct, which already puts it lightyears ahead of modern LEGO Star Wars design philosophy, which has been:1. Upscale the price2. Remove play3. Add a plaque4. Call it mature
>>11669532Kino
>>11669495>>loving a neat little new gimmick toy is bad because....it just is okkkk!!!!>Why are r#dditors like this?A common depression symptom is to always disagree. Always argue. Another is to cover one's self in nastalgia.This place is almost as bad. Also, unrelated but teenagers revel in their new teenage power and will just wonder around the net dunking on people, trying to own people, trying to make people feel bad like a puppy nipping an old dogs ears. Some people go into threads just to make people feel bad.
>>11669495>neat little new gimmickLights and sounds doesn't really seem particularly new or neat.
>>11669709Thats cool
>>11669709Indeed!
>>11669709It's WAY more than just light and sounds though! It reacts to how you play, to different minifigures. It's practically all the stories you'd make with LEGO come to life!
>>11669709What's the set posted? Looks cool as hell.
>>11669709someone said it in another thread: for a newfag at life, shit like that is always going to be new. Kids will be impressed.Personally, i grew out of wanting gimmicks in my toys when i turned 10. electronics always increase the price and toy companies includeless shit i actually care about: parts count, articulation, accessories, size, etc.In short, fuck gimmicks. They're always intrusive and basically exist just so a toy company can make 50-1000% more money despite the gimmick costing like 10¢ more per unit. Electronics are insanely cheap at a mass manufacturing level.Also, fuck modern cars, fridges, washing machines, and TVs.
>>11669495the internet now is mainly just people seeking to be outraged for any reason possible. Like theres an actual arguement that the smart brick isn't that desirable and will just pricehike sets, but so what? we can just ignore them and if it flops LEGO will just drop it like they've done with so many gimmicks.Lots of LEGO "fans" online are also insanely self conscious about collecting toys and has to really convince themselves that they're not toys they're "adult collectible models"meanwhile in real life no one gives a shit, my family has tons of lego models because we just like them.
