Sorry this is showing my age. I’m from the old school of LEGO, back when the most fancy piece we had was a roof tile.
The joy of play with LEGO is to search for that bit you just saw two minutes ago but can’t for the life of you find again. And then because you could not find what you were looking for, you either built something else or swapped with your fellow Lego builder for the day.
Now this Kiwi company, Box4Blox, have come up with a Lego sorter, NO! It is wrong and should put into the sin bin. As this is totally against the Lego spirit, wrong I say WRONG !
Oh, by the way, Peter and Moira Botherway it is not LEGOS, it is pieces of LEGO !!! And that is said by a Dane who ain’t great with gramma, just read this blog, but I know my LEGO.
November 29, 2009 at 4:38 pm
That’s daft. It wouldn’t work anyway, but, even if it did, what is the point? Lego is Lego, and the simplicity stimulates the creativity. 2nd best thing to come from Denmark.
November 30, 2009 at 6:22 pm
I can sympathize exactly. On the other hand I dont think Lego would be the same without looking for a piece for half an hour and coming out with cuts and welts on your hands.
November 18, 2010 at 11:45 pm
You may know your grammer, but not your Fair Play. The word LEGO is a trademark of the LEGO Group, which insists that the word is an adjective, not a noun. To wit: