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Today Lego celebrates the big 5-0, even getting some Google-love for hitting the half century mark.
New York has long been recreated in Lego-form, our favorite was at an exhibit housed in the Storefront for Art and Architecture late last year. Do you have a favorite Brick Apple? We love Sean Kenney's Greenwich Village (pictured) and Nathan Sawaya's Brooklyn Bridge.
In a related story, this past Saturday was the city's first Lego League Citywide Championship, where more than 80 teams of grade-schoolers participated in a Lego challenge. It's great to see they're still getting some play in the age of Wii.
And Boing Boing has a time lapse video chronicling one man's assembly of the "Ultimate Collectors Millennium Falcon LEGO set, the largest yet sold, with over five thousand individual elements." Whatever keeps 'em off the streets!
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Lego sucks now. It used to be I could get a nice big lego box with all the assorted pieces but now they tell you what you should build with the legos.
Legos representing at the idiotarod on Saturday:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aur2899/2220900273/in/photostream/
because really, you're nothing unless you get 'Google-love.'
Lego is actually a billion times cooler now than when we were children (full disclosure: I was a true Lego junkie as a child). Lego always had pictures of things you could build on the packages, and they also came with little books of project ideas, which is nothing new. There wasn't a page in the instructions that TOLD you that you must construct what was on the box (Not that you could, those package photos showed some off the chain hard to build stuff that appeared as if it required a degree in mechanical engineering to duplicate).
Lego's in the present come in dozens more shape,colors and sizes they ever have before. The amount of light up doo-dads, funny little people, robotic moving parts, trees, animals and wheels makes the Lego's I had a kid look like popsicle sticks and glue. They teach a math/english class in some of the NY Public Schools using Lego's and computers that allow the kids to construct Lego robots.
Andoman, you can get a giant bucket of assorted Lego's at any toy store, but no reason to be a Lego Luddite. I bet you end with one of the crazy light up sets.