Posted on 04/05/2025 7:31:52 AM PDT by Towed_Jumper
Bob Friedland’s home in Little Falls, NJ, is filled with Lego. Lego flowers adorn his dining room table. A Lego reproduction of Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” hangs in his office. He has 10 Lego city skylines scattered throughout his abode (one for every town he’s visited). On Halloween, he strings lights on his Lego “Nightmare Before Christmas” set and displays it at the bay window at the front of his house.
“I had to move out of my condo and into a house to find a place to put them all,” Friedland, 50, told The Post.
Friedland has worked in the toy industry as a marketer for decades, but he only began seriously playing with Lego in 2020.
Like many adults stuck at home during the Coronavirus pandemic that spring, Friedland found himself alone and anxious. He remembered how playing with the snappable plastic building blocks had brought him joy as a child. So he bought a 1,000-piece Lego “Voltron” set — based on the 1980s cartoon. And then bought another, and another. He’s completed at least 50 sets since, re-creating everything from a bonsai plant to the set of Jerry’s apartment on “Seinfeld.”
“They’re a stress reliever,” Friedland said. “They don’t fall apart, you can put them on a shelf and look at them and they give you fun, good memories.”
Friedland isn’t the only grown-up embracing their inner child. What started as a pandemic pastime has exploded into a phenomenon, with companies such as MGA Entertainment, Hasbro and Lego pumping out products targeted to these so-called “kidults”: miniature fake food, limited-edition Formula 1 figurines and intricate building sets.
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I realize it's Saturday morning and many of us will be watching Bugs Bunny cartoons but would appreciate your comments between the commercials for Tang and Cocoa Puffs. ;>)
My friends we are living in a man’s world. We invent things and the more expensive toys were invented with us in mind. Think computers. Think viagra.
I don't do any of that stuff.
Ain't life grand?
Think Large Hadron Collider.........
Legos are a 3d puzzle. If someone has the disposable income to buy the big complicated sets and are not neglecting their work or family responsibilities, I’m not going to mock or judge someone who enjoys putting them together.
there are more manly hobbies like 49 willys jeeps.
I wish I still had a lot of my childhood toys, like my collection of real steel Tonka trucks.
Should grown-ups really be buying preschoolers?
(Or, have preschoolers become avid shoppers?)
Old Bugs Bunny cartoons have more genuine entertainment value than a lot of things out of Hollywood these days.
I won’t argue the arrested development point. I think there is some merit to it. I also think millions of folks were “fledged” too soon (early exposure to grown-up forms of entertainment and situations) and missed, for whatever reason, the joy and fun of being a kid.
Or perhaps, in a society where things become ever more complex, folks like to reach back to simpler pleasures and pastimes.
What channel is Bugs Bunny on?
But adults can be most serious.... An example fro Germany
Miniatur Wunderland, Hamburg, Germany ADULT toy railroad enthusiasts in GermanyThe New York Post ends with "The conclusion: We could all use a little more play in our adult lives."
Most of these high end legos and action figures are high quality and are meant to be adult display pieces, model kits without the building steps
“Grown-ups are buying more toys than preschoolers”.
Maybe because a majority of preschoolers don’t have good credit.
Pre-schoolers buy nothing, so this is not news at all. What it is really telling us, is that people are having less children than in past generations. That is unattainable for the future of this nation.
You can buy a "Jeep in a Crate" (made in the Philippines), for around $15K.
Check these out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1ya-aUYGtw
How Philippines is Still Able to Produce WW2 Willys Jeep Parts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhJ4-ZKYas0
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