# Pink Lego **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 22, 2004, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-lego/261000 "2004-08-22T19:51:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-lego/261000/1 "2004-08-22T19:51:39Z")
So, was dragged into the Lego Store in Birmingham’s Bull Ring yesterday, but not by a bratty snotty little kid, no but by the boyfriend. We’d just grabbed some dinner at Nando’s (yum), and as we were walking out, he espied the Lego Store. Him: “Its a Lego Store!!!” Me: “Yes.” Him: “We’re going in!!” I’ve never seen him this excited about Lego before, so, in we went… It was a magical grotto of Lego. Lego of all shapes and sizes. Lots of Lego kits. Harry Potter Lego, Medieval Knights Lego, Star Wars Lego, T-Rex Lego, and Lego marketed at little girls. Lego which was pink. Bright pink. Pink like this. The horror. But it got worse. There was Lego with sparkly bits in it. Its wrong! Lego used to be bright primary blues, greens, yellows, reds and black. And it was multi functional, and it didn’t matter whether you had dangly bits or not to play with it. Pink Lego, people. 🙂 But, it was a Lego Store. It was cool. And it had a wall at the back just filled with bins of lego pieces. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-lego/261000/2 "2004-08-22T20:13:47Z")
Noooooooooo!!! I just went to their website, and it’s full of jewellery kits and ‘fairy land’ sets and…nooOooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! It’s wrong, just wrong. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-lego/261000/3 "2004-08-22T20:28:47Z")
Pink, sparkly Lego. Pink, sparkly Lego. \ Pink, sparkly Lego. _twitch_ \ it is not the lego of my youth… ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-lego/261000/4 "2004-08-22T20:33:02Z")
Pink sparkly Lego? Hooray! Now my assemblies of gay Lego pigs will be more convincing. :off to toy store: ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-lego/261000/5 "2004-08-22T20:35:38Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > \ it is not the lego of my youth… 'ere, this 'ere Lego int warrit yoosd’be. When oi wurra lahd, we 'ad reel solid blocks. None of them fancy colours, moind. Just yer good honest blue 'n red. If we were lucky, we’d get a box of whoite’ns at Christmas. We 'ad to make’em lahst, moind you. Kids these days don’t know ‘ow to make bricks lahst. If we ran out of bricks, that was it. No runnin’ to the shop to get more. They were rationed, you know. Moind you, lil’Tommy always yoosed to get extra, on accoun of ‘is dad working’ at the docks. Soon as the convoys came in, they’d be in there to the crates of Lego,… ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-lego/261000/6 "2004-08-22T20:39:23Z")
Recently, at a friend’s house, I noticed he had Lego SOFTWARE. It was a kid’s toy… a virtual Lego set, with an infinite number of pieces. You literally built virtual Lego stuff, and played with it, in the computer. If I was a real Lego freak, I think being able to buy individual Lego pieces at low prices would be… like… orgasmic. Is it possible to build my house out of Lego? ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-lego/261000/7 "2004-08-22T20:40:02Z")
…Aye, we 'ad it 'ard as young 'uns. Kids today. Don’t know they’re born. Pink sparkly lego indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-lego/261000/8 "2004-08-22T20:43:41Z")
Nonsense. I won’t believe it until I see a cite. And I won’t be coming back to this thread. Ha! Beat the system. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-lego/261000/9 "2004-08-22T20:48:18Z")
Pink lego? That’s just wrong. So very wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Chimpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@Chimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimpy)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-lego/261000/10 "2004-08-22T20:51:51Z")
I’m barely out of my lego using years and imho pink lego is so wrong, green lego on the other hand… so rare… so beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![flamingbananas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-lego/261000/11 "2004-08-22T21:18:27Z")
…Those Harry Potter lego sets are fun to build. ---
**Author:** ![Cowgirl\_Jules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@Cowgirl\_Jules](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowgirl_Jules)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-lego/261000/12 "2004-08-22T21:35:51Z")
I bought my son a Lego robot kit. He can build a robot, which he was pretty much doing anyway, and then program it on the computer. Too cool, having a ten-year old. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-lego/261000/13 "2004-08-22T22:07:43Z")
I’ve just spent a few minutes looking at the snap-on flowers and magic fairy princess toys that Lego is undoubtedly using to attract girls to its product line. I wonder what can be said for females like myself who were attracted to Lego bricks long before any of these “girly” toys, much less pink bricks. And what’s up with all the cutesy little faces they’ve got on the minifigures now? I liked them back when they had two dots for eyes and a tiny curve of a smile. Occasionally you could find a girl minifigure, with eyelashes and red lips, or a scruffy pirate. The basic facial expression was still the same though. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-lego/261000/14 "2004-08-22T22:08:57Z")
> [@Angua](#): > > Lego of all shapes and sizes. Lego which was pink. Bright pink. Pink like this. The horror. But it got worse. Anatomically correct Lego? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-lego/261000/15 "2004-08-22T22:50:29Z")
I admit, I haven’t looked recently, but last time I did, the problem with the girly legos was not that they were girly, but that they were stupid. You couldn’t build with them, the people didn’t stick to the pieces (they weren’t even real lego people, they were like mini-Barbies), the pieces you could buy (no building) were dumb. They’d taken away all of the lego-ness of legos, painted it pink, and marketed it to girls. Which sucks. But lego bricks that happen to be pink wouldn’t bother me at all. They have a lego store at the mall here, too… I need to borrow a friend’s child so I don’t look stupid going in. ---
**Author:** ![Lyllyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@Lyllyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lyllyan)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-lego/261000/16 "2004-08-23T00:07:29Z")
Boy, where have you people been? Girly Legos have been out for a while now. 😛 (Disclaimer - every 10 minutes of my life spent in a Lego store seems like a year. I am not interested in Legos, however, my 12 year old son is) But I digress… There are Lego pens, Lego Models, Bioncle (Robot/alien looking guys), movies, Lego Chess, Lego Pizza Delivery Guy Software Game and lots of other Lego related software for kiddies (and other so inclined). My son gets a comic and catalog once a month from Lego, he gets birthday cards from Lego, he wrote a letter to Lego, Snap On Jewelry Legos…the list is never-ending. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-lego/261000/17 "2004-08-23T00:16:20Z")
> [@Lyllyan](#): > > …the list is never-ending. There’s Lego cocktail, Lego contact lenses, Lego-based religion, Lego sandwich, Lego under glass… ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-lego/261000/18 "2004-08-23T00:18:31Z")
> [@Master Wang-Ka](#): > > Is it possible to build my house out of Lego? I saw an episode of While You Were Out (or a similar home-improving show on TLC) where a woman had an entirely unhealthy Lego obsession. She had millions of Lego pieces organized by color and shape in huge crates in her basement. In the living room, tables, clocks, vases, picture frames (and _pictures_!!), footstools, almost everything was made of Lego. She cried as they took it apart. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-lego/261000/19 "2004-08-23T08:10:52Z")
Now that _is_ freaky. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-lego/261000/20 "2004-08-23T08:17:49Z")
Pink lego? :yawn: I had a lego bride and groom on my wedding cake. Now _that_ was cool 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pink-lego/261000.md?page=2)