Debunking The Most Perpetuated LEGO Myth Ever

Sorry to disappoint, but no, LEGO sets are much, much older than most of you remember…

The myth of the classic red brick. That’s what I call it. Perhaps others have a different name for it, but that’s what I — very intuitively — call it. It’s probably one of the oldest ones out there, and I first started hearing it in the mid 90s, when a friend from Germany got me a classic set of bricks, and as he placed it on the table, said, “this is what LEGO is supposed to be”. I was 10. I couldn’t give a flying brick what LEGO was supposed or not supposed to be, as long as the parts had LEGO printed on them. Everything else was semantics.

As you can imagine, I am not 10 any more, and over the years, as I grew and got deeper and deeper into the rabbit-hole of the LEGO universe, the opinion that LEGO was far from its “good ol’ days” values of just playing with bricks started becoming a noise I couldn’t ignore any more. The unending remarks of “back in my day” all referring to the “forgotten” heydays of the Danish toymaker when supposedly everyone played with nothing but 2×2, 2×3 and 2×4 bricks — especially in red — started to really bug me in my 20s. While as early as my mid-teens I was quite occupied with the opposite sex, that didn’t stop me from becoming an AFOL (adult fan of LEGO); though the…