The Best Lego Designs
Legos are toys, but they inspire amazing designs. LEGO artists make use of the small plastic bricks to create everything from architecture to robots. Even the company’s engineers create new components that let builders to construct more complicated models. Erik Varszegi is a Master Builder at the Lego Group, Billund, Denmark. He designed an entirely new feature for this year, the curving slope. It allows Lego users to create more slanted shapes while staying within the strict color palette of the company. The slopes can also be used to create more dynamic shapes, like an incline staircase.
Certain Lego sets are the result of the work of professional designers, while others are the result of the well-known Lego Ideas program. The Ideas line lets anyone create a set, and it’s also possible to produce. It grants fame and one percent of sales for any designer who convinces 10,000 other designers that their work is worthy of being be made. It’s not surprising that the most elaborate and impressive sets usually garner the most support particularly when they have iconic characters or scenes from movies, TV shows or from the real world.
Two space icons are among the best Lego models including the NASA shuttle Discovery and the Hubble Telescope model. Each telescope comes with a plaque of display and a miniature Lego version of its creator. Other impressive models include frames of a rainbow, a steampunk dragon and a replica the Palace of Westminster.
