This article was apparently written by someone who does not have children that play with Lego. I have three children, boys aged 9, 5 and 2. They seem to receive a Lego gift of some kind at every birthday and they will receive Lego for Christmas in a few days. The Lego we started them with was a large bucket of bricks from when I was a child that my mother had kept for thirty years in the attic.<p>Every time the kids get a new Lego set the routine is the same. They build the set exactly to the instructions as quickly as they can, and then get someone to take a picture or two of the build with the proud builder standing behind it. Then the bricks are torn apart and a new and better creation is made. Every single day in my house the kids are building something with Lego, and now the collection is in several large bins. We had Mindstorms, trains, wheels upon wheels upon wheels, and the kids have even made some interesting Lego/Hot Wheels integrations.<p>In my personal experience watching my kids and their friends, there seems to be no shortage of imagination. Occasionally I try to spur them on, and encourage them to build ever more intricate designs. Sometimes I build stuff myself. I have seen no evidence that Lego has sold out, or anything close to that. A person could argue that back in the days when they would make a custom brick for every purpose, that was the sell-out time. Now with a reduced set of bricks, there is the imagination requirement of old.