Remember when Lego let you enter plausible worlds of imagination? You could venture into medieval kingdoms, take on pirates, or leap into the unknown of space. Each world, or time, had protagonists and antagonists with exquisite set pieces to create, well, worlds. It could be a completely immersive experience. There were no movie or TV show tie-ins. Everything was pure Lego. Today, sets are based on a movie franchise (Star Wars and Harry Potter) or Lego media (I’m looking at you Ninjago and Lego Movie). I don’t want a Lego set based on something that already had a story created for it. I want to make the story. Isn’t that the point of Lego, to create?

Now, I am an adult with an imagination that has faded over time but remained present. My inner nerd workings salivate at the thought of building the Millennium Falcon or crawling through Hogwarts’ secret passages. Those sets, however, feel limited to the scenarios formed in the Star Wars movies or in J.K. Rowling’s mind. Now that I have grown-up money, I would love to jump into Lego castle creations or raid imperial outposts with a scrappy band of scalawags. Those options, however, no longer exist without having to scour eBay. Tempting as those sets may be, they are neither shiny nor new nor guaranteed to be complete regardless of seller ratings. Lego, give me my “classics” back; let my imagination play and come alive once again. I would walk a floor laden with Lego bricks if it meant getting my hands on some new nostalgia.