Despite being toys, Legos inspire amazing creations. LEGO artists make use of the tiny plastic bricks to produce everything from architecture to robots. The company’s engineers also design new check out here elements that enable builders to construct more complicated models. Erik Varszegi, a Master Builder with the Lego Group in Billund, Denmark, designed one such new feature this year: the curve of the slope. It allows Lego users to design more slanted designs while respecting the strict color palette of the company. The slopes can be used to create more dynamic shapes, for example, a curving staircase.
Certain Lego sets are the result of professional designers’ work while others are the product of the well-known Lego Ideas program. The Ideas line gives anyone the chance to create a set and get it manufactured, and offers fame and 1 percent of sales to any designer who is able to convince 10,000 fellow designers that their design deserves to go into production. It’s no surprise that more extravagant and impressive sets tend to gain the most acclaim especially when they have iconic characters or scenes from TV shows, movies or from real life.
Two space icons are among the top Lego models that are available: the NASA shuttle Discovery and the Hubble Telescope model. Each telescope comes with a display plaque and the miniature Lego version of the original inventor. Other impressive models include a framed Rainbow, a Steampunk Dragon, and a model of Westminster Palace.
