I remember when I was young, Lego was expensive, but if you bought the expensive set, you got a whole stack of Lego to play with, nowadays all you get are these stupidly styled unique pieces that you cant really use with much else.

The early 1990s was the Golden age for Lego in my opinion, and if you look at the old catalogues back then and the following years afterwards you can see the quality in the sets and the price suddenly takes a turn for the worse.

Now they are cutting lobs, you might as well start buying MegaBlocks, or one of those other rip off brands if you want quality now. Heck, why doesn’t Lego switch to a different type of plastic like Micromachines toy range did; that company did so much better when they valued producing quantity over quality….

I don’t know where the New York Times got their numbers. Maybe they adjusted for the fact that Billund will soon merge with its neighbour, Grindsted, on January 1st, 2007. But even then, population will only be around 25,000.