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Beijing 2008 In Lego

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the that's-a-lotta-bricks dept.

jedie noted an impressive rendering of the Beijing Olympics in Lego. Featuring 300,000 bricks, and 4,500 Lego people, it was built by the Hong Kong Lego User Group. Yes that exists. Amazing. I'm pretty sure that the lighting inside the water cube was not made using stock legos. At least, none in my giant cardboard box.

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  1. Re:Next, Lego Will Make It a Creativity-Free Kit by spazghost · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is still lots of creativity with Legos. Haven't you ever heard of factory.lego.com?

  2. Re:Next, Lego Will Make It a Creativity-Free Kit by frogzilla · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's what I thought until I started to buy kits for my son. He did build according to the instructions. Then he proceeded to do what I had done, and what you are waxing nostalgic about, 20 years before. He built whatever he pleased. He built, destroyed, rebuilt, on and on. He would spend entire days surrounded by his Lego.

    I think the blocks are all good. Old and new. He seems to have outgrown them now. He's 14 and he started with Lego when he was two or three. The thousands of dollars worth of newer generation blocks (and all of the instructions) are boxed away with the older generation blocks (with no instructions -- they got lost somewhere along the way) for future rediscovery.

    I think that Lego blocks are _still_ the world's greatest toy.