When I first saw some of the new shapes Lego was making, I kind of felt like it was cheating. When I was a kid, I didn’t have to walk to school, 37 miles, barefoot, through the snow, uphill, both ways, as the joke goes (or did, before it was beaten to death, but that’s a different post entirely).
The hardship I faced was that I had to build my Lego creations entirely out of rectangles and a few 45 degree slopes.
What I didn’t consider was how much further builders were going to be able to take things with all the new shapes and colors. It wouldn’t have been possible to create a functioning, physical, Tetris game out of Lego of the 1980s. I don’t mean that it would have looked blocky, I mean it wouldn’t have worked.
Nor would have any of these other creations. It’s really impressive what some of these people are doing. Seriously. Some of this stuff is three dimensional artwork with parts that move around and do things.
It’s well worth a watch in my opinion (and not nearly as cheesy as the AI-generated Star Wars trailers in 1950s Super Panavision I posted yesterday, either.)
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