[Leica] Lego (WAS: IMG: V. with phone)

[Christopher Crawford]

My son, who is 22 now, still plays with Lego bricks. We go to Lego conventions and there are people as old as my parents at these things showing off their 'builds.' Lego isn't just for kids. Kids can't afford it anyway, lol. Some of the older people we have met at the Lego conventions have told me that they have spent more than $50,000 on Lego bricks!

My son has probably 6 or 7 thousand dollars worth of them. My parents bought a lot of them for him when he was younger. I had only a few Lego sets as a kid; my parents wouldn't buy many of them for ME because they were 'too expensive' but for their grandson they didn't care. He does still have the ones I had when I was young, and they still fit perfectly with modern Lego bricks made today!


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On 7/23/19, 2:42 AM, "LUG on behalf of Nathan Wajsman" <lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf of photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

    Sonny’s post triggers me to tell this story. Back in the 1960s, as a small child in Communist Poland, my best friend was the daughter of some friends of my parents. We were the same age, both born in 1960. My earliest childhood memories involve sitting on the floor in their apartment, playing with her Lego bricks—an unimaginable luxury in mid-1960s Poland.
    
    Beata and her parents emigrated to Denmark in 1969, and we followed suit in 1972. The Lego bricks went to Denmark too, but by the time we were reunited in Copenhagen, we were more interesting in teenage kind of things—learning to smoke, growing long hair (in my case), rock music etc. So the Lego bricks sat in storage. 
    
    Fast forward to the 2000s. Beata got married and started the procreation business rather late, in her late 30s/early 40s. She has two children, a boy and a girl, now aged 16 and 18 or something like that. But when they were small, they played with the very same Lego bricks with which we had played 40 years earlier!
    
    And yes, Beata still has them, so who knows—maybe a third generation will take them over in the next decade?
    
    I have sent this story to a senior manager at the Lego company in Denmark (whom I had met in connection with my work) and she loved it, of course. It is attachment like this that makes Lego one of the world’s most powerful brands.
    
    Cheers,
    Nathan
    
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    > On 19 Jul 2019, at 15:54, Sonny Carter via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
    > 
    > You left out reading!
    > 
    > But some Legos in our house are thirty-five years old and are in regulare
    > use by another generation.
    > 
    > Regards,
    > 
    > Sonny
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    > On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 8:17 AM Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
    > wrote:
    > 
    >> Really, my comment was more to do with indoctrination via toys.  Do we
    >> suggest toys to mimic adults(in past practice dolls for girls and erector
    >> sets for girls) or toys to stimulate basic skills and thinking like legos,
    >> blocks, puzzle toys, random items that allow the child to develop
    >> creativity and imagination as well as basic skills and understanding about
    >> physical reality.  Don't get me started about reading versus video.
    >> 
    >> But, back to the image posted, I believe this is a fine portrait and good
    >> subject to learn a new lens.
    >> 
    
    
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