Lego survey shows 52% of adults ask for boring presents instead of cool toys-GameCentral-Entertainment – Metro

This one’s our favourite and was made by fan group by members of Brickish (Lego)

Kids have attempted to reimagine their parents’ boring Christmas lists as more exciting Lego models and the results are super charming.

Christmas is almost upon us and that means that all across the land adults and children are writing their lists, if not for Father Christmas then certainly for each other. However, a study by Lego has found that most adults are well aware that their lists are boring and unimaginative, compared to their kids’ choices.

Apparently 52% of British adults consider their lists to be both ‘boring’ and too ‘practical’, with exactly the same percentage of children describing their parents’ lists as ‘bland’, ‘unimpressive’, and ‘too sensible.’

Candles appear on 25% of adult lists while socks are on 19%, with 17 proving to be the average age that people stop asking for anything interesting for Christmas. For kids the most common request is toys (17%), then video games (14%), and then clothes (11%).

Supposedly 80% of adult wish their lists were more exciting, with 63% admitting they haven’t been surprised by anything they’ve been given in two years and 37% requesting boring ‘essentials’ from friends and family.

85% of adults attribute the idea of having more practical gifts to the cost of living crisis, which is perfectly understandable, but even so Lego has encouraged a number of fan communities to create Lego-ified versions of boring presents… which also helps to encourage more people to ask for Lego bricks for Christmas.

We do love the cat slippers as well, by Northern Brickworks (Lego)

These models include a toy-dispensing rainbow vacuum cleaner, a talking robot coffee machine, and laser-shooting cat slippers. The ideas were suggested by kids but the models themselves were made by adult Lego fans in the UK.

There’s also a flying, magical watering can and self-reading books that project their story onto a TV, which is a little dispiriting in terms of kids and adults thinking that getting books as a present is boring.

None of these designs can be bought as official sets but they all use standard Lego pieces and you can make them, or something like them, out of any Lego you might already have or buy for Christmas.

In recent years, Lego has increasingly been accepted as something both kids and adults can play with and while there are many sets aimed solely at older fans they do tend to be the more expensive ones – so encouraging people to make their own models is not only creative but can potentially save money.

Although one of the benefits of Lego is that even if someone else gets a set for Christmas everyone else can have fun helping them to build it.

The line-up in full (Lego)

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