Comment by utexaspunk

I second that- when I was a kid I had tons of common bricks (1- and 2-by-N's) and regularly built decent-sized houses with full-height walls and multiple rooms and such. My 5 year-old daughter recently graduated from Duplo to Lego and I don't see a good way of building up a decent foundation of just "normal" bricks from which she can build lots of things. I definitely feel like there's a lack of sets with good quantities of them. Even the large "Classic" sets are pretty light on them compared to other pieces, and what they do have is spread out over like 15 colors, so you can forget about trying to make anything match.

I've looked on eBay, but most of what I see in bulk there are lots of just one size or one color bricks, or just pounds of completely random pieces. I'd love it if I could find something like an assortment of 1,000 mixed 1-by-1/2/3/4/6/8 bricks in 4-5 colors, or the same with 2-by-N bricks.