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I would always get genuinely stressed out when I had to disassemble Legos. Like I get the whole point was that they are modular and can be rebuilt but something about seeing a completed model just disappear really upset me a lot growing up.
I am way less stressed out about it as an adult, thankfully. But that's because I know how to actually sort them to make reassembly way easier.
I always had a hard time with lego! I had a big bucket of them, but usually just didn't really know what to do with them, and my best memories of them were staying over with my cousin and making little stories with him about various characters and toys exploring his already-built lego towns and room.
It's taken me a fair bit to mentally get over the idea that Lego pieces are exchangeable. Like I bought a used lot and cleaned/sorted it and there was a half-completed X-Wing in it. It was weird searching through the Lego I had just sorted for parts. Like... That black slope is functionally identical to the black slope that was from the kit, but it's from some OTHER kit. That's so weird!
I like following instructions, too. So free building is less fun for me than following someone else's build. Thankfully there's a ton of MOC instructions out there. Which is the whole motivation for me to have a catalogue of pieces to work with :)
I was the opposite, I loved taking them apart because it meant I could put it back together again later. I did have to follow the instructions in reverse, I couldn't just randomly disassemble it.
Completely feel you on that one. We had a lot of Lego growing up, it was one of the few "luxury" toys we really had. At one point I had almost the entire line of the Ice Planet Space Lego sets, including the base and the ship I used to call the Super Dimensional Fortress (because it was huge and modular and I was also way into Robotech). Didn't have much place to store the completed models though, so after being together for awhile they'd have to get broken down and go into The Tub O' Lego. And after that it was dang near impossible to find all the original pieces to put them back together again.
My brother and I used to refer to scars on the models where we had to use different colored pieces as "battle damage" xD
That's why I eventually moved from Lego to Gunpla, really. My joy is in following the instructions and building the model... but once I've done it, I wouldn't do much with the finished model. No disassembling, no customizing, no improvisation - dear god I'm not creative enough for that. So most Lego sets are just assembled once.
Turns out Gunpla is just that building phase, except longer and about half as expensive. And so my problems were solved!
Honestly you're right! I have really enjoyed Gundam models in the past. The primary issue with them for me is that I would want to paint them which is an arduous process!
