fractalgal Posted December 17, 2008 Share Posted December 17, 2008 Is it just me, or are the lego selections for girls a little on the weak side? I bought my daughter some boy oriented sets this year, because the girl choices don't seem like there is much actual building to them... Anyone else notice this, or am I not finding the right sets? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kewb Posted December 17, 2008 Share Posted December 17, 2008 Having worked in the Toy industry for a number of years I can tell you the reason the girl's sets are weak is because there is not enough demand. The girl's lines simply are not profitable enough to warrant the manufacturing. It stinks when you are the parent of a girl who likes to build stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fshinkevich Posted December 17, 2008 Share Posted December 17, 2008 I saw on the lego website they sell legos in a pink tub :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jen500 Posted December 17, 2008 Share Posted December 17, 2008 Maybe she'd like some of the house building sets? I loved Lego as a girl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Girls' Mom Posted December 17, 2008 Share Posted December 17, 2008 Yeah, my girls LOVE legos, and they think the girl ones are lame. They would love to see more house building sets with cool furniture pieces, and lots of mini figures. But no weird figures, just regular old mini-figs..lol. I did go on to the LEGO website and you can order just the figures. The girls are going to be thrilled! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fractalgal Posted December 17, 2008 Author Share Posted December 17, 2008 Maybe she'd like some of the house building sets? I loved Lego as a girl. Yes ~ one of the ones I got her is a house. I think that is one of the better choices for a girl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amsunshine Posted December 17, 2008 Share Posted December 17, 2008 Yes, I agree the selection for girls is pretty weak. Our dds are getting the Lego Beach House set for Christmas -- reasonably priced and there are plans for three different houses to make. I believe there may be one or two other types of house set(s) available. Our girls already have a couple of the large Belville princess sets, but these are hard to find and really don't compare to the boys' sets, unfortunately. My girls love their Legos, though! I'm excited to build the Beach Houses with them. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jen500 Posted December 17, 2008 Share Posted December 17, 2008 I've also bought a lot of the individual pieces from the Lego website. Tiles, roof pieces, doors, trees, arches, fences. Apparently you can never have too much Lego. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 Why does a girl have to have girl lego? I remember feeling incredibly cheated because my dad was saving his technic lego kit for my brother, the BOY. He never even liked lego... Oh, the hurts from our childhoods! ;) Rosie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skylark Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 I tried to get Legos for my girls, we ended up getting into Playmobil instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PiCO Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 Is it just me, or are the lego selections for girls a little on the weak side? I bought my daughter some boy oriented sets this year, because the girl choices don't seem like there is much actual building to them... Anyone else notice this, or am I not finding the right sets? I grew up loving legos, and they didn't even make "girl" sets. Why can't your girls just use the regular lego sets? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamaof2andtwins Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 I understand that kids like the sets that Lego creates and not just the building blocks themselves. My daughters have one of the house sets. I really like the "town" scene sets, but they are very pricey. We also have a horse set. Jennie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny in Florida Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 Color me clueless, but my daughter always just played with Legos. In fact, she was pretty scornful of the idea that girls would play with Legos only if they were pink and cute. Of course, this was several years ago before Lego went whole hog into the various themed sets. At that point, you could still buy just plain Legos without having them be marketing tie-ins to whatever movie is popular this week. My daughter did have some of the Egyptian-themed sets, because she was big into all things Egyptian for a while. But that was about it. Otherwise, it was generic Legos, which I've always thought offer the most options for creativity, anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veritaserum Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 We've got five girls and love Legos here. I just have a generic set of blocks. I spent hours building stuff as a kid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klmama Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 Have you looked at the knock-offs to see if they have any available right now? We have a set of pastel-colored blocks that work just like Legos, and it includes furniture, kitchen cabinets, etc. I think they may be Megablocks, but old. I found them at a garage sale about 5 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camibami Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 I guess it might also depend on the girl. My DD is into Harry Potter, so all our legos are HP sets, or just regular blocks to build. We have some dragons, too, and a star wars set. My DDs do build houses and stables and "girly" things with them, but they just use the regular blocks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fractalgal Posted December 18, 2008 Author Share Posted December 18, 2008 I understand that kids like the sets that Lego creates and not just the building blocks themselves. My daughters have one of the house sets. I really like the "town" scene sets, but they are very pricey. We also have a horse set. Jennie I liked the town scenes as well. The Taj Mahal was neat, but pricey! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jumping In Puddles Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 (edited) This reminds me of the hilarious SNL mock commercial - CHESS for GIRLS "It's chess with a van!" "Chess, it's a classic game of strategy and wit... and bubbles" :lol: "real chess pieces with a special suprise... she smells like strawberries!" :ack2: :D :smilielol5: My dd would love a girl lego set because she loves anything purple and pink. :) Edited December 18, 2008 by Jumping In Puddles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haiku Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 It stinks when you are the parent of a girl who likes to build stuff. It never occurred to me that Legos were for boys and that girls needed special girl sets. :confused: ;) My daughter plays quite happily with the traditional (boy?) Legos that we have, as did I and my sisters when we were growing up. Tara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Girls' Mom Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 I think what I see with my girls, is that they LOVE to build with Legos. However, they are not into building cars, warriors, space stations, etc. They are more into houses with furniture, or building things for their littlest Pet Shop critters, etc. Yes, they use regular old legos...but ones that aren't geared toward building machines or battles of some sort are getting hard to come by. Some more domestic type things would be really cool. And pink isn't what they want..lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fractalgal Posted December 18, 2008 Author Share Posted December 18, 2008 It never occurred to me that Legos were for boys and that girls needed special girl sets. :confused: ;) My daughter plays quite happily with the traditional (boy?) Legos that we have, as did I and my sisters when we were growing up. Tara My daughter likes the more architectural looking sets, like the Taj Mahal. They don't have to be pink. I don't really think some of the boy sets they have now are very appealing to her. I'm not referring to legos decades ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phathui5 Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 We've noticed the same thing. Why does a girl have to have girl lego? With my dd, that's what she wants. She wants them to be pink and purple and build fairy princess castles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jen500 Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 Ah ok. I just went to the Lego site. There aren't many building sets there I would want. Ick. Growing up we didn't have so many of those building set things. We just had plain ole buckets of Legos. You can just buy tubs of lego, or bags of individual bricks (by color and size) and other pieces. I don't care for most of the sets myself. The pieces just get mixed up with all the other lego anyways, and they really don't inspire as much creativity as a box of assorted pieces. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom0012 Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 What makes them for boys vs. girls? My son loves legos and my daughter will build will them as well, but most of the themes are really geared more towards boys in my opinion. My daughter isn't really interested in Exoforce or Star Wars. I do think some of the new town legos would really appeal to her though. Lisa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elohcin Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 My girls don't care if it is girl lego, they just like to build. They build differently from their brother (who usually builds cars), but they all share. Same with all the different playmobil sets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HappyGrace Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 that he's starting them, she'd like some. So I've run up against this problem now too-about girl legos. She is a very girly girl and wouldn't be caught dead with the "boy" sets. And she doesn't necessarily like them for building, just "theme" playing, otherwise I would just get a big box of the plain ones. The house sets are a little too "babyish" for her. I ended up getting her the Belville horse stable: http://shop.lego.com/Product/?p=7585 I WISH they had more sets like this-it's perfect! Unfortunately this it the only one that would be more advanced and therefore suitable for "older" young girls-the other Belville sets are really basic. So I think this may be what people are talking about when they say they'd like more girl-friendly sets-sets where the theme is more appealing to girls. There are NONE in the stores! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fractalgal Posted December 18, 2008 Author Share Posted December 18, 2008 that he's starting them, she'd like some. So I've run up against this problem now too-about girl legos. She is a very girly girl and wouldn't be caught dead with the "boy" sets. And she doesn't necessarily like them for building, just "theme" playing, otherwise I would just get a big box of the plain ones. The house sets are a little too "babyish" for her. I ended up getting her the Belville horse stable: http://shop.lego.com/Product/?p=7585 I WISH they had more sets like this-it's perfect! Unfortunately this it the only one that would be more advanced and therefore suitable for "older" young girls-the other Belville sets are really basic. So I think this may be what people are talking about when they say they'd like more girl-friendly sets-sets where the theme is more appealing to girls. There are NONE in the stores! When I went to the Lego website, I was looking for a big (pretty) castle my daughter could build. I found the Taj Mahal, and I considered that - until I looked at the price. Some of the boy ones are interesting to me, but I think most of them are such that my if daughter were to unwrap them as a present, she would think that she opened a gift intended for her brother. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kewb Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 It never occurred to me that Legos were for boys and that girls needed special girl sets. :confused: ;) My daughter plays quite happily with the traditional (boy?) Legos that we have, as did I and my sisters when we were growing up. Tara Allow me to clarify. It stinks when you have a girl who wants all pink stuff and loves to build with pink blocks. My dd did not care what color the Legos were but plenty of her friends did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fractalgal Posted December 18, 2008 Author Share Posted December 18, 2008 They normal ones seem more exciting than the girl only ones. This is exactly my point. The girl looking ones don't seem to have much building to them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixpence1978 Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 I completely agree! My DD5 is now really getting into legos. She is perfectly happy playing with regular tub legos, and she also likes to build the Star Wars ones as well. But, boy, would she ever love to get to build a beautiful castle with fairies or princesses. Either that or make some that are animals...anything other than just cars, space stations, exoforce, etc... The girl legos that are out there are really weak and the characters aren't even the regular mini-fig size...they are much larger and not as fun. Lego really does need something to fill in that gap and make something that girls would get really excited about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathy in MD Posted December 18, 2008 Share Posted December 18, 2008 Why does a girl have to have girl lego? I remember feeling incredibly cheated because my dad was saving his technic lego kit for my brother, the BOY. He never even liked lego... Oh, the hurts from our childhoods! ;) Rosie I have an interesting observation about daughters, sons, fathers and career choices. I majored in a male dominated field. My college class had 7 girls in a class of a little over 100 and we had the highest % of women in my college todate. Of the 7 girls, 6 had no brothers. The father, having no ds to help with "male" household chores, selected either the eldest or youngest dd to train and participate in "male" things. The only girl in my class with a brother lost her father when she was young. Like Rosie, I wanted the boy stuff! I hated most of the traditional girl toys. So are you sure your construction-minded, Lego loving dd's want the girl stuff? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixpence1978 Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 Kathy, My DD would DEFINITLY want the girl legos. She is a very girly, girl who loves cats, pink, etc... (except for her odd obsession of Star Wars). In fact, when she asked what she wanted for Christmas her reply was "Girl Star Wars legos". But I can see your point. I also loved legos when I was little, but was quite opposed to pink and girly items...regular legos suited me just fine thankyouverymuch. I don't really think it's legos in general. A generic tub of legos is enjoyed by everyone...it's once you get to the themed sets that there are a very masculine nature to most of them (Exoforce, Mars Mission, Agents, Indiana Jones, Batman, Star Wars, Cars, etc...). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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