Dear Lego,

April 1, 2013

Dear Lego,

I love you. I really do. You amaze me on a daily basis with your ingenuity. That in this day and age of high def and iPads you can keep kids’ attention with simple, plastic interlocking 3-D shapes, is astonishing. That you can create this:

. . . blows my mind. Really. The limits of Lego creativity know no boundaries. There’s Hogwarts, and the Death Star, and The Battle of Helms Deep. The Friggin’ Battle of Helms Deep! Wow.

I appreciate that one Lego set can keep my son busy for hours. I’m quite certain that there is an educational benefit to the kids as well. Something about spatial relations, geometry, blah blah. You would know better than I.

All you creative types over at Lego headquarters in Denmark, drinking your Carlsberg beer and eating your smorrebrod, designing and marketing these Lego sets are geniuses. PURE GENIUSES.

Therefore, I need your help, because THIS makes me want to check myself into the insane asylum:

Can you come up with something to deal with this please? Some sort of Lego Vacuum would be nice. Or a Special Lego Broom. Anything. You’re the Geniuses, so come on! Help a mom out! You sell it, we’ll buy it. Trust me. We’re spending $400 bucks on a Star Wars Super Star Destroyer, so don’t you think you could make a fortune with some sort of Lego Clean Up System?

I’ll expect something by the start of the holiday season.

Thanks for your help. Really, I love you. But I need you to fix this mess in my basement.

Sincerely,

Parent of a Kid Obsessed with Legos

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31 responses to “Dear Lego,”

Minuscule Moments

April 1, 2013 at 9:47 pm

Imagine if Lego came up with a design to fix the chaos of lego aftermath, it would be worth a bit. Your floor looks like my floor, only I am not aloud to touch the lego pieces, because it has all been lined up in certain way and he will know if I do. Lego across his bedroom floor and nano bug world spread across my lounge room. Good luck

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Waywardspirit

April 1, 2013 at 10:02 pm

Space Lego Broom
lol
I like it.
when you make get the kids as emotionally involved as me and Lego with the urgent need to rescue the pieces of soul, master the Jedi quest of the force collecting every piece…it’s another priceless experience.
It only works if you role play. You have to believe they will freeze on the Frozen planet if left out.
For a girl, they feel left out and sad. They miss their mommy.
Kids love the game with you.
I love it too, once I’m in. Okay, I love Legos. : ) And kids…

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1. Jess
  
  April 3, 2013 at 11:48 pm
  
  Lego’s are awesome. So are kids. But they sure are messy! Thanks for commenting!
  
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Did That Just Happen?

April 1, 2013 at 10:40 pm

A Lego vacuum would be awesome!!

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1. Jess
  
  April 3, 2013 at 11:48 pm
  
  It would be a dream. Maybe it can sterilize them too, after it sucked them up.
  
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writeonce1770

April 1, 2013 at 11:21 pm

We just threw all the pieces in a big box and hid it away. Problem solved. lol

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1. Jess
  
  April 3, 2013 at 11:50 pm
  
  It’s getting them into the box 🙂 Kids have no problem dumping the box, but seem hesitant to clean up the mess!
  
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  1. writeonce1770
    
    April 4, 2013 at 8:09 am
    
    I know, it’s always a challenge to teach children the responsibility of ‘order’ vs ‘disorder’, ‘clean’ vs ‘unclean’. Inevitably, we go through ‘Spring’ cleaning more than once a year and just take it one room at a time.
    
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  2. Jess
    
    April 4, 2013 at 6:55 pm
    
    Good plan. I love spring cleaning and any Legos I find on the floor are getting tossed!!
    
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1stpeaksteve

April 2, 2013 at 1:29 am

I am glad my son is now an angst ridden early teen and that Legos have gone the way of the Dodo Bird and Thomas the Tank Engine.

Oh how I would cringe when we visited Downtown Disney and of course he would be frothing knowing that the Lego Store was in his immediate future. If we did not leave with the Jumbo Death Star; we would leave with some miniscule character he would create that would set me back $6.00. Well worth the price for the inch and a half guy.

Don’t fear, he will one day outgrow them and you will be left with boxes and Tupperware containers containing a billion of the prized pieces.

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1. Jess
  
  April 3, 2013 at 11:51 pm
  
  I have a bin full of Thomas trains too. Maybe my son will go work for Lego in Denmark. I can’t picture him giving them up ! I love the $6 mini-figures too. Geniuses, those Lego people.
  
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  1. 1stpeaksteve
    
    April 4, 2013 at 8:39 pm
    
    They are geniuses! They somehow partner with everything that children love and create a set for it. And the video games…school items…The list goes on and on!
    
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The Underground Writer

April 2, 2013 at 9:10 am

How about soft legos? So when we step on them it doesn’t hurt so much!

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1. Jess
  
  April 3, 2013 at 11:52 pm
  
  Soft legos! I love it. I hope the kids wouldn’t chew on them though 🙂
  
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sweetness6645

April 2, 2013 at 6:15 pm

I’d love to help, but I can barely put together ones of those dinky McDonalds toys 🙂 My 2 year old niece just built a park with hers.

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1. Jess
  
  April 3, 2013 at 11:53 pm
  
  Bah ha ha! Those McD toys can be confusing though.
  
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  1. sweetness6645
    
    April 4, 2013 at 5:59 am
    
    You should see the new one for the Croods. Don’t buy it .LOL
    
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  2. Jess
    
    April 4, 2013 at 6:56 pm
    
    Darn McDonald’s and their happy meals. 🙂
    
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  3. sweetness6645
    
    April 4, 2013 at 7:00 pm
    
    Yes, darn them
    
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ravenjanedoh

April 4, 2013 at 12:32 am

They have a Lego removal service; her name is Bella. She’s a 6 year old Boston Terrier who likes to transfer legos from the floor, to her mouth, and then out into the yard straight away, or via her digestive system, then into the recycling…. Either way triggered my kids to pick them up and stuff them somewhere other than the floor. At first I got mad at her (those things are $$!), then I realized it was the only thing my kids responded to, so I let her have a few. They figured it out.

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1. Jess
  
  April 4, 2013 at 6:59 pm
  
  I’m going to use this info in my post tonight…. Stay tuned!
  
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  1. ravenjanedoh
    
    April 4, 2013 at 11:09 pm
    
    LOL, guess I should have re-read my reply before commenting again; nothing like repeating myself. ::sigh:: long day. OY (But it works.)
    
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memyselfandkids.com

April 4, 2013 at 11:55 am

I am so with you in all of this. My older boy, in particualar is a Lego fanatic. He is a child posessed when he gets new Lego. It’s like ADHD – what ADHD. Talk about focus.
I also wrote a post about cleaning up Lego (http://larrydbernstein.com/truly-helpful-inventions/). Who has not stepped on one of those suckers?

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1. Jess
  
  April 4, 2013 at 6:53 pm
  
  Man do they hurt! I will check out your post– I am enjoying your blog.
  
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  1. memyselfandkids.com
    
    April 4, 2013 at 7:31 pm
    
    I think my children’s vocab may have grown in ways I don’t want it to after I stepped on Lego.
    Glad you are enjoying the blog.
    
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April 4, 2013 at 10:04 pm

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April 22, 2013 at 11:00 am

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Amy Bradley

June 10, 2013 at 4:55 pm

I can’t believe I’m just seeing this! You need a Toydozer ! (www.toydozer.com) My son is as obsessed as yours, so I created this handy clean up tool to get the mess cleaned up quickly. But the best part is, it’s a great tool for kids to use to help get the mess cleaned up THEMSELVES!! 😉

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Mike

January 13, 2014 at 9:02 pm

Has anyone thought that maybe this was already done by lego, google lego vacume, first image that comes up, it was produced in the 90’s worked pretty well for messes of Legos (and othe small toys)

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March 20, 2014 at 9:38 pm

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April 25, 2016 at 6:16 am

Your wish is our command, check us out http://www.legovacuum.com – invented by a kid.

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