I am sure I have not come close to 37,000 times. I have observed that Legos we got for our kids vs ones that we had from when we were kids, are different. I'm tempted to test both 'vintages'. I've also got some from the Lego Dacta catalog when we were building robots out of Legos using the MIT 6.270 build guides. They are slightly different too.

Plastic has got a lot better, remarkably in the past 20 years. The new ones are probably much more resilient.

fond memories of disintegrating rubber and plastic from the 90s