>>10403372Stopped using bricks and started using plates and tiles to artificially inflate the price
Also those wasted ice cream/cloud pieces, what's the point? This isn't a MOC
>>10403394Like studs showing? A while ago, but really started to show after 2010. I blame the AFOL infection that's made Lego push more towards marketing to adults. For some reason there's an aversion to studs and everything needs to be smooth and as close to a model as possible. Instead of being, you know, Lego.