Despite being toys, Legos inspire amazing creations. LEGO artists use the small plastic bricks for everything from architecture to robots. Even the engineers of the company design new components that allow builders to build more complicated models. Erik Varszegi, a Master Builder who works for the Lego Group in Billund, Denmark created a new component this year which is the curved slope. It allows Lego users create more slanted shapes, while staying within the company’s strict color palette. The slopes can also be used to create more dynamic shapes, like an incline staircase.
Some Lego sets are the result of professional designers’ work and some are the product of the wildly popular Lego Ideas program. The Ideas line lets anyone create a set and then have it manufactured, and offers fame and 1 percent of sales to any designer who is able to convince 10,000 fellow designers that their creation is worthy enough to go into production. It’s no surprise that more https://noelsbricks.com/2019/12/07/lego-mindstorms-nxt-is-a-new-construction-kit-series-for-lego-digital-designer extravagant and impressive sets tend to gain the most support — especially when they contain iconic scenes or characters from TV, movies or even real life.
One of the most impressive Lego designs are two space-themed icons which include the NASA spaceship Discovery and an image of the Hubble Telescope. Each telescope comes with a plaque of display and the miniature Lego version of the inventor. Other impressive models include a frame Rainbow as well as a Steampunk Dragon and a replica of Westminster Palace.