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 respect pet owners.
But pet collectors who substitute dogs and cats for children, that’s a whole different thing.
I know what you’re describing, but I’m not sure how and why you draw the line on what’s acceptable.
If they didn’t have kids or pets, would that be better?
Thanks for the head's up. I'd not seen it before. Quite an art form in its own way.
The squishmallows remind me of the little statues one could buy at every store that said things like I love you this much...
Popular in the early 70s
I once visited a lesbian I knew at her home and she and her girlfriend had hundreds of them on this display shelving. Along with nudes and seminude pin up pictures of women. You know like the Farrah Fawcett
My toy = Buying a PING driver. To each his own...
Indeed many a carpets got wet at 2:00am over those.
There’s a Youtube video where a team assembles a jeep drives it off a TV sound stage in…under four minutes!?!
😉🙂[In my best John Cleese:] “I see, I see! I get the picture! If I have a big model train setup, I’m a broken adult with an unhappy childhood! But if _Rod Stewart_ has one, it’s some sort of work of art!”
Tonka trucks were great! Handsome & sturdy. My kid brother loved them!
If you have dogs, the small Nyla-Bones are almost as bad as Legos.
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