Lego Porn

Posted on 01 30, 2008 under Current Events by foodad |

google_lego.JPGIt’s Lego’s 50th anniversary. Everyone is excited about it. Even Google did a Lego logo which tells you the overall significance and influence of the toy on the population at large. Gizmodo, another internet dynamo, did a story on the top 50 Lego sets of all time.

My brother and I were Lego junkies. We were more into the plain blocks than the sets, but we did manage to get ourselves a castle and some space legos. These facilitated inventing Transformers long before Optimus Prime hit the market. We would build ships that we could turn into robots out of Legos. The challenge of course was keeping these en tact as overall our Lego resources were not infinite and we both had a large desire to destroy one guys Krakkarakon to build our Lazatronatar.

Noodad busted out his old space Legos set a couple of months back. He brought them into the office and we took some (lunch) time to build a few vehicles and wax nostalgic about the days when Legos were arguably the most important things in our lives. Legos challenge you creatively and analytically and while today’s Legos are heavily branded, I think that kids, like my brother and I once did, eventually throw all the pieces in one big box and build whatever they want. My brother and I really would have liked that Star Destroyer or Millenium Falcon set though. The truth is that I think I still would.

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    My kids have a cool 3 pronged LEGO table and I must admit, although it was expensive and takes up a good portion of our family room, it is super cool. Our kids play with their LEGO's almost every day and every day they build something cooler.

    The only thing that I dislike about where LEGO has gone over the years is they have cobranded with kids brands like Dora, Thomas, Bob the Builder, and Star Wars. Now they have Indiana Jones LEGOS!

    I would argue that had my space legos been Star Wars space legos I would never have come up with some of the most hardcore space freighters that I did as a kid. Mainly because I would be always trying to make the XWing fighter that it came as.

    Just my $0.02

    P.S. Lego Star Wars videogame is so awesome.
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    WOW...what a trip down memory lane. I had just about every Lego Space set it turns out. Recently, I took a trip down the Lego aisle at Target...cool stuff but call me crazy, I think that today's sets are too "polished," have too many round corners and specialty pieces...and leaves too little to the kid's imagination. With one-off front fenders on Ferraris and the like, there's only a few ways to use the pieces. And for me, the jagged edges approximating a curved hull of a space ship is essential to the Lego aesthetic! Case in point - this favorite of mine (http://gizmodo.com/photogallery/LEGO50space/100...) vs. this new set (http://shop.lego.com/ByTheme/Product.aspx?p=764...). That said, my kid is still at the Quatro stage and when he's ready for regular size Legos, I'll surely be totally into it.

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