Growing up in the 80’s, most of my toys were LEGOs. Universes literally unfolded as my hands restlessly fitted the bricks together. Astronauts and their spaceships. Knights and their castles. Drivers and their race cars.
The fun, however, was not in playing with the spaceships and castles. It was the assembly that I loved. Having an idea, developing it as I searched for the next piece, going back, introducing some adjustments, streamlining it.
Lego were in Iwo Jima
I particularly like how the building blocks and assembly process help shape creativity. You have a set of blocks that fit in very specific ways. These are your rules. You have to understand them and use them to your advantage, in order to build something you’ll like. A lot like so many other things in life, right?
Now, Lego are so usefull for so much more. Just check out how they can impersonate The Monty Pithon in their Quest for the Holy Grail.
If, like me, you are realy melancholic about those days when the red blocks always fitted, maybe you want to watch the animation showing how the blocks are made.
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