well.. Lego or Ikea, we have to assemble it anyway..

I don't really have an opinion on it The idea is fun but I don't know if it really has an interest

What's your opinion of the sets Lego makes for Ikea ? I like the idea of a pre-built box that you can outfit with furniture and accessories, but it looks quite basic, even bare, and the lack of windows doesn't make it look welcoming.

just found them, i forgot to click on next ( there was 29 results and i saw only the first 24 ) on Toys R Us website.. but you still have to buy a box of this, a box of that and a box of these ones ( and a green or blue plate ) to find what you really want.. marketing at its best..

I'll be honest , maybe the ones i had as a kid were a little bit of these, of that and maybe this and i just thought it was sold that way..
( i really don't have a single clue of how i ended up with them at the first place.. )

Not so much older than me than (soon 43)
Just bricks without doors, wheels, windows, etc. that sounds like Lego from the 60s (though that they already had windows) or just basic brick box, but not sets

i'm in mid-40's ( for about a month, after that the slow march towards 50 begins.. ) .

Maybe i just lost track of them and basic ones getting rarer to find once the sets took the stores by storm i just assumed they were replaced . At least, its the impression i have . Just taking a look on the Classic line : no windows, no doors , no wheels unless there is a car on the box..

Or were they part of sets and i just don't remember ? possible too as i was not the one buying them when i was a kid..


Nice house

How old are you?
Sets are not so much different than in the 80s/90s on that aspect.
In the 80s there were Town sets like there are now City sets, except that now they tend to contain much more parts than their equivalent.
Of course there are new parts, but many are not so specific, they are often quite re-usable. But indeed the more different part there are, the less basic plates/bricks you find. You can do much more advanced/realistic things now than 40 years ago, but you usually need more parts to do it too.
If you compare the generic brick boxes or the "Basic" line from the 80s with today's sets, it is an unfair comparison: nowadays they still make these, with the "Classic" line for rather standard re-usable parts with many bricks, or with the "Creator" for something between these generic bricks and the playsets, with sets that allow to do more easily different things (like their 3-in-1 sets).
For example in my house made in Lego ( https://antp.be/lego/moc/house.php ), there are a lot of the details I could never have done even 20 years ago, as many parts were added since then. Same for the colors, if you compare with basic ones from the 80s.

Of course more specialized sets like the Speed Champions are probably less re-usable alone, but on the other hand when you mix these with other sets you have a lot of small parts that can be quite helpful. For example https://brickset.com/sets/76918-1/McLaren-Solus-GT-McLaren-F1-LM introduced some parts in orange, which are useful for the Yaris I'm making at that scale
Photos not yet online, I still have to do that, and also get some of these orange parts.
I also still have to put the Toyota stickers that I got via another Speed Champions set, https://brickset.com/sets/76901-1/Toyota-GR-Supra

At same time, its pretty much the same with the Lego sets we have here . You can take the pieces out of the box but you have a very limited liberty if you want to think outside of it ( i don't know if its different in Europe ) . I don't mind those pre-designed sets but i miss my childhood " Let your imagination run free " pack of bricks and think the sets should be sold alongside them and not replacing them..

It will be difficult to build something else with that one

And for anyone wanting brick-like assembly AND a realistic finish, Airfix has the answer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKfL8wsAgFY