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Originally Posted by ScreamingViking
Unless it is sold as a "kit" I doubt many Lego users would have the creativity to do it, either.
My nephew (12 now) became a master at quickly putting together massive Lego sets for Star Wars and other themed builds... get him one as a gift and he'd often have it together within a couple of hours. Has he ever built something from his own imagination, using the same pieces? Not that I've seen.
It's unfortunate.
I love the detail in that arena model too.
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I used to barely have a set together before it would be apart again making something else. LEGO was the only toy I'd buy from when I was ~7 with my own allowance money until I was into high school.
I've tried nowadays now that I have big-boy paycheques and could in theory buy whatever I wanted. But now I'm too much of a perfectionist, the few times I've tried to make models of something in real life, I get too bogged down in nailing the details, and don't actually get anywhere. I need to go
all the way off the deep end, designing ahead of time digitally, ordering specific parts, etc. And I have too many other hobbies, not enough space, and
still not enough money, so I have to leave that part of me be, and build the sets I get for Christmas and put them on the shelf.
I still go around my daily life looking at things like lamp posts and awnings and stuff and picture how I'm make them out of Lego though.