I talked to a guy named David of the LEGO staff, and I didn't really get him to bring back the LMBs or Galleries, but he says he could probably make LEGO Life better, improve it in some ways. Our conversation:
CUSTOMER (me) Can you bring back some old features, like the message boards and galleries? Older fans would be grateful, and younger fans could discover something they maybe didn't think would be cool. 11:08 AM
You are now chatting with David
CUSTOMER Hi. 11:08 AM
DAVID
Hello there! 11:08 AM
DAVID
Ah yes the message boards! We've condensed a lot of things like that onto LEGO Life and have even more coming to do stuff like that on the platform as well. 11:09 AM
CUSTOMER Ah, I see. 11:10 AM
DAVID
Yup. There's a lot of stuff like that on LEGO Life and we're building that platform to include many of the reasons people went to the things like the message boards and galleries on there. 11:11 AM
CUSTOMER Just curious - will you be adding more features to Life? And maybe some moderation so users can safely write text replies? 11:11 AM
DAVID
Features yes, in regards to text based commenting I don't know about that at this time. 11:12 AM
CUSTOMER The 3D animated avatars are also a cool idea! Maybe animated stickers depending on what the avatar looks like, or maybe custom emoji (with templates and stuff of course), would be a cool thing. 11:13 AM
DAVID
Yeah that does sound like it would be a cool feature! 11:13 AM
DAVID
We appreciate the feedback! 11:13 AM
CUSTOMER Thanks! So...how do I exit the chat? Do I just...save it? 11:15 AM
DAVID
No you just hit the X in the window in the top right. Not the one to close the window there should be another one. 11:17 AM
I got a LEGO catalog in the mail the other day. I went to LEGO.com to find out what the deal with the new “Ninjago Legacy” sets was. As I gazed upon what was left of their website, I started feeling depressed. It was at that moment when I realized that what remained of my childhood was now gone. Bionicle was gone, the Message Boards were gone, the Gallery was gone, but seeing what LEGO.com had become was just too much for me.
Maybe it’s just me being unreasonably nostalgic. After all, I am legally considered an adult now. Perhaps I just need to put all this behind me and look toward my future.
Oh, and I still don’t know what the deal with “Ninjago Legacy” is.
Yea,it's really a shame they took everything away. Now it's just the bare bones. I can't say whether you're being overly nostalgic,because I,myself,get way too nostalgic thinking about old memories.
I got a LEGO catalog in the mail the other day. I went to LEGO.com to find out what the deal with the new “Ninjago Legacy” sets was. As I gazed upon what was left of their website, I started feeling depressed. It was at that moment when I realized that what remained of my childhood was now gone. Bionicle was gone, the Message Boards were gone, the Gallery was gone, but seeing what LEGO.com had become was just too much for me.
Maybe it’s just me being unreasonably nostalgic. After all, I am legally considered an adult now. Perhaps I just need to put all this behind me and look toward my future.
Oh, and I still don’t know what the deal with “Ninjago Legacy” is.
I feel the same. The Lego galleries and message boards were my complete (single digit ) childhood starting at six years old. I made good friends and had great times. I don't think you're being unreasonably nostalgic, just sad that your complete childhood has been wiped out to make space for marketing gimmicks. Unless I'm also being really nostalgic. (true )
I got a LEGO catalog in the mail the other day. I went to LEGO.com to find out what the deal with the new “Ninjago Legacy” sets was. As I gazed upon what was left of their website, I started feeling depressed. It was at that moment when I realized that what remained of my childhood was now gone. Bionicle was gone, the Message Boards were gone, the Gallery was gone, but seeing what LEGO.com had become was just too much for me.
Maybe it’s just me being unreasonably nostalgic. After all, I am legally considered an adult now. Perhaps I just need to put all this behind me and look toward my future.
Oh, and I still don’t know what the deal with “Ninjago Legacy” is.
I feel the same. The Lego galleries and message boards were my complete (single digit ) childhood starting at six years old. I made good friends and had great times. I don't think you're being unreasonably nostalgic, just sad that your complete childhood has been wiped out to make space for marketing gimmicks. Unless I'm also being really nostalgic. (true )
There’s one thing LEGO can’t take away from me: my old sets. Although, I feel like if they could wipe out all old sets from existence, they would.
I agree. Kids youtube videos these days are as much of a mess as lego.com.
Oof. Don't even get me STARTED on those! I haven't directly watched any of those videos but I'm aware of the culture surrounding it. Downright disturbing is what it is.
I can't believe we're living in a day and age where people actually should be worried about who is 'teaching' their kids...
And the worst part is, a lot of them aren't. That, or they're outright misguiding their children themselves.
People don't quite care about their children anymore. It's sad.
I feel the same. The Lego galleries and message boards were my complete (single digit ) childhood starting at six years old. I made good friends and had great times. I don't think you're being unreasonably nostalgic, just sad that your complete childhood has been wiped out to make space for marketing gimmicks. Unless I'm also being really nostalgic. (true )
There’s one thing LEGO can’t take away from me: my old sets. Although, I feel like if they could wipe out all old sets from existence, they would.
I feel the same. The Lego galleries and message boards were my complete (single digit ) childhood starting at six years old. I made good friends and had great times. I don't think you're being unreasonably nostalgic, just sad that your complete childhood has been wiped out to make space for marketing gimmicks. Unless I'm also being really nostalgic. (true )
There’s one thing LEGO can’t take away from me: my old sets. Although, I feel like if they could wipe out all old sets from existence, they would.
I feel the same. The Lego galleries and message boards were my complete (single digit ) childhood starting at six years old. I made good friends and had great times. I don't think you're being unreasonably nostalgic, just sad that your complete childhood has been wiped out to make space for marketing gimmicks. Unless I'm also being really nostalgic. (true )
There’s one thing LEGO can’t take away from me: my old sets. Although, I feel like if they could wipe out all old sets from existence, they would.
I fully believe that if LEGO could wipe out all the old Ninjago and Star Wars sets that featured realistic weapons instead of stud shooters, they would.
I don't know if anyone's talked about this yet, so I figured I'd set up a topic about it.
LEGO.com has reached a new low in its devolution. Nearly every feature and activity has been taken away from the site. What little there was left of the galleries is completely gone. Themes no longer have dedicated sites or product pages, making finding what you want extremely difficult. There is no longer any way to search for or filter anything on the website, besides filtering content by themes, making it quite literally a disorganized mess of free-advertising, what little passes for a "game" these days, and a confusing jumble of images and videos that are impossible to sort through. Oh, and to make matters worse, the only thing you can judge games or videos by is the thumbnail. There are no longer any titles for anything.
So, to recap: LEGO has completely sacrificed its website's organizational features, its website's intelligibility, and really any sort of fun you can have on it... and for what?
So that it could bombard children with a constant stream of random, meaningless images of different products, sets, and videos. And MAYBE if they're lucky they can actually find that game they DID want to play.
...I just don't know what to say. This is a complete travesty. The non- "Grown-up" portion of the site is completely unfunctional now. HOW DUMB DOES LEGO THINK KIDS ARE?! Nobody's gonna be happy with this!
Late to this topic, but I'm also sad about this. I literally grew up playing LEGO City, Bionicle, and Ninjago flash games on LEGO.com, going on the galleries and, starting in 2014, the message boards. The LEGO.com I remember from the early 2000s and 2010s was a website everyone could enjoy. There was even stuff targeted toward older builders; heck, a series of Ninjago flash games (Spinjitzu Slam) even played a bit like grid-based RPGs, to my memory. You'd NEVER see a game like that on today's LEGO.com
I really miss the galleries most of all. At least the LMBs got a continuation on this site, but the closest thing to galleries now is the LEGO Life App. On the old galleries, you could literally write whole backstories for your MOCs under the pictures. It was the perfect bridge, for all ages, between playing with LEGO and writing. On the LEGO Life App, the "descriptions" for your MOCs can only consist of emojis.
The downgrade of LEGO.com was foreshadowed even shortly before the closure of the LMBS; to answer your question about how dumb LEGO thinks kids are, remember when they tried to replace the term "MOC" with "Krongiwongy", or whatever the heck that word was supposed to be?
I don't know if anyone's talked about this yet, so I figured I'd set up a topic about it.
LEGO.com has reached a new low in its devolution. Nearly every feature and activity has been taken away from the site. What little there was left of the galleries is completely gone. Themes no longer have dedicated sites or product pages, making finding what you want extremely difficult. There is no longer any way to search for or filter anything on the website, besides filtering content by themes, making it quite literally a disorganized mess of free-advertising, what little passes for a "game" these days, and a confusing jumble of images and videos that are impossible to sort through. Oh, and to make matters worse, the only thing you can judge games or videos by is the thumbnail. There are no longer any titles for anything.
So, to recap: LEGO has completely sacrificed its website's organizational features, its website's intelligibility, and really any sort of fun you can have on it... and for what?
So that it could bombard children with a constant stream of random, meaningless images of different products, sets, and videos. And MAYBE if they're lucky they can actually find that game they DID want to play.
...I just don't know what to say. This is a complete travesty. The non- "Grown-up" portion of the site is completely unfunctional now. HOW DUMB DOES LEGO THINK KIDS ARE?! Nobody's gonna be happy with this!
Late to this topic, but I'm also sad about this. I literally grew up playing LEGO City, Bionicle, and Ninjago flash games on LEGO.com, going on the galleries and, starting in 2014, the message boards. The LEGO.com I remember from the early 2000s and 2010s was a website everyone could enjoy. There was even stuff targeted toward older builders; heck, a series of Ninjago flash games (Spinjitzu Slam) even played a bit like grid-based RPGs, to my memory. You'd NEVER see a game like that on today's LEGO.com
I really miss the galleries most of all. At least the LMBs got a continuation on this site, but the closest thing to galleries now is the LEGO Life App. On the old galleries, you could literally write whole backstories for your MOCs under the pictures. It was the perfect bridge, for all ages, between playing with LEGO and writing. On the LEGO Life App, the "descriptions" for your MOCs can only consist of emojis.
The downgrade of LEGO.com was foreshadowed even shortly before the closure of the LMBS; to answer your question about how dumb LEGO thinks kids are, remember when they tried to replace the term "MOC" with "Krongiwongy", or whatever the heck that word was supposed to be?
I didnt realize the website had gotten so bad since they took down the lego mc map. And lego life is terrible its just a gallery with almost no sorting features besides themes
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I didnt realize the website had gotten so bad since they took down the lego mc map. And lego life is terrible its just a gallery with almost no sorting features besides themes
IKR??? Lego is going downhill, at least online. (minus the LMBE. )
) childhood starting at six years old. I made good friends and had great times. I don't think you're being unreasonably nostalgic, just sad that your complete childhood has been wiped out to make space for marketing gimmicks. Unless I'm also being really nostalgic. (true 
) childhood starting at six years old. I made good friends and had great times. I don't think you're being unreasonably nostalgic, just sad that your complete childhood has been wiped out to make space for marketing gimmicks. Unless I'm also being really nostalgic. (true 
On the old galleries, you could literally write whole backstories for your MOCs under the pictures. It was the perfect bridge, for all ages, between playing with LEGO and writing. On the LEGO Life App, the "descriptions" for your MOCs can only consist of emojis.
