User blog comment:Rosso22/What I think about LEGO./@comment-5671588-20130131183628

Exo-Force didn't come out until 2006. :P

And I don't really get what you're saying...

"BIONICLE, Exo-force, Knights Kingdom, etc. It was the main reason I liked lego, not only could you do what you wanted with the blocks, but the things that they came up with were creative enough to compansate for any lack of inspiration in you... So in summary the old themes had lego and your creativity in them, and these new ones are just you."

The new ones have storylines. Look at Chima, Ninjago. They have much more storyline than Forestmen, or Blacktron, or the original Pirates.

Plus, please don't say that "the lisenced themes in themselfs are fine... but the main problem is they leave very little room for creativity." If you don't know the storyline, then you'll make one up. I did that with Star Wars when I was a little kid. :P I had no idea what happened in Star Wars, so I just made "custom" minifigures by mixing up parts, and used them as Star Wars characters like I had seen in the LEGO catalogs. :P

I don't think the problem is with LEGO, I think it's with people's perceptions of LEGO.