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New Independent Lego Journal Launches

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bric-a-block dept.

hfcs writes "Joe Meno, a Lego-junkie buddy of mine has just launched BrickJournal, a new, independent journal for Lego fanatics, 'featuring HOWTOs, reviews, history and interviews with Lego engineers'. As mentioned over at BoingBoing this morning, it's like 'a very, very, very specific version of Make!'." Conveniently split into two PDFs for your reading pleasure.

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  1. Re:I'm not sure I get it by coolGuyZak · · Score: 2, Insightful

    My guess is that he means unofficial. E.g. independent from the company that produces said building blocks.

  2. Re:Lego's are for LITTLE KIDS by UnknownSoldier · · Score: 3, Insightful

    > what is the deal with people who like legos? it is like they missed a stage of their childhood or something.

    Why does age matter in enjoyment of a toy that lets a person be creative??

  3. Re:Creativity? by landoltjp · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Legos are just so restrictive that I really don't understand why so many geeks love them. Most of us bitch about people telling us what we can and cannot do, yet so many of you love legos, which restrict creativity to certain defined patterns.

    I'm not sure if I'm being naiive, but I'll treat this as if it were not a troll.

    Rather than looking at the pieces as limiting, I see the piece specifications as exactly the opposite. All of the pieces interconnect. The 'specialized' pieces are limited for basic construction, but they're great for accent. The remainder of the pieces follow a few _very_ simple rules. There are simple height, width, and depth constraints. There are a bunch of colours (not a ton, but enough, methinks). These constraints are applied with a great deal of consistency over a large number of different Lego pieces

    Because of 'simple rules' and 'interconnectivity', I think that creativity is one of the few limiting factors.