Lego for adults is here to stay, and it’s rapidly becoming as ubiquitous as puzzles as a socially accepted leisure activity, one that allows for both meditative calm and creative bursts of energy. Shame, begone! I got over my embarrassment fairly fast, realizing that anyone who couldn’t understand the happiness I got from Lego wasn’t anyone I’d want to be with anyway.īy the time the company began actively marketing sets to adults in 2020 by adding an 18+ age designation to boxes, many other grown-ups had long been building too, showing off jaw-dropping builds at conventions or running blogs and YouTube channels now considered essential news sources on all things brick. The finished diorama would fill me with nostalgic joy-but should an overnight guest arrive, I’d swiftly banish it to the closet the way most folks might do a speed sweep of strewn-about dirty laundry. When I began picking up occasional Lego sets as an adult, I’d hide the purchase in my bedroom and build with the door shut.
