i think legos are awesome, but i have this rant that's been bubbling inside me for a while now that i want to get out. i loved them when i was a kid and had like a million of them. as a parent, a friend of ours also gifted my kids their million piece collection. it's awesome. we are very lucky

i may be dense or maybe didn't ever think about this, but i realized only maybe a year ago that the real reason legos cost so much and the real worth in legos isn't the physical pieces and isn't the instructions.

the worth is in the curation: Lego sets give you the pieces you need to build the thing, nicely sorted for you.

yes, there are a few specially molded pieces in many sets, but other than those, i probably have all the pieces in my million piece unsorted tub to make any of the sets we've bought, but there's no flipping way i'm going to be able to dig them out and find them in any reasonable amount of time.

looking back on my childhood when i'd make a set, then take it apart and pile all the pieces into the bin, i feel like i was throwing away money. makes me feel like sorting the bin that we have, but dang that is a big project.

this rant brought to you by my attempt to build one of those lego infinity cubes today, and only being able to find 2 hinges and 4 brackets after an hour of searching through The Bin