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> My personal gripe is just the explosion of special purpose pieces that Lego vends today. Less is more Lego. I've personally been amazed at the possibilities
by tspike 5y ago
> My personal gripe is just the explosion of special purpose pieces that Lego vends today. Less is more Lego.
I've personally been amazed at the possibilities that seemingly single-purpose parts open up in the hands of a skilled builder.
One example is the "stud shooter" -- a utensil for minifigures to shoot out 1x1 round plates. Check out what these folks did with it:
https://www.newelementary.com/2020/05/stud-shooter-15391%20-lego-building-techniques.html.html https://www.newelementary.com/2020/05/stud-shooter-15391%20-...
New Elementary is a gold mine for creative uses for "specialized" parts.
- lostlogin 5y ago> I've personally been amazed at the possibilities that seemingly single-purpose parts open up in the hands of a skilled builder. And this is great, but when you have small children who just want to join things together, a lot of the modern sets have a fairly limited ability to customise. It’s frustrating. They sell plenty of simple sets, it’s just so attractive to buy the fancy ones recreating some movie.
- icecap12 5y agoWow - amazing link. Thanks!
- greyhair 5y agoMy son did exactly that with all his 'specialized' pieces. The way he repurposed those in his own designs used to crack me up, and he was doing that when he was only eight or ten years old. The imagination didn't fixate on what the part was originally used for, he only saw it as a raw shape to serve some purpose.