What happened with LEGO

Re:What happened with LEGO by danielweber on Thursday February 07, 2013 @10:35AM (#5182593)

Steve Yegge has a rant somewhere about how Lego used to make kits that could build special things, using entirely off-the-shelf parts, with maybe one or two exceptions for things that just couldn't work otherwise. And now (for older values of "now") it sells kits loaded up with special parts so that you can't really build as good a Batmobile without getting the Batmobile set.

He was comparing it to programming languages that cram in all sorts of edge-case special features, but it still reminded me my modern Lego seems less . . . pure, I guess.

shakes cane

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Re:What happened with LEGO by EdwardMSmith on Thursday February 07, 2013 @04:29PM (#5184609)

My take on it is this:

In the 70s and 80s, Lego was low resolution. Block, 4 bit color.

Now its just higher resolution (smaller pieces with more non-right angles), and higher bit-depth.

Lego has just paralleled video game evolution.

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Re:What happened with LEGO by pyre on Thursday February 07, 2013 @10:52AM (#5182740)

Depends on how you look at it. Specialized sets with specialized pieces just increase the breadth of your Lego collection and the type of pieces available to your imagination.

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