Legos are toys, but they also inspire incredible designs. LEGO artists use tiny plastic bricks to create everything from robots to architecture. Even the engineers at the company develop new elements to allow builders to construct more complex models. Erik Varszegi is a Master Builder at the Lego Group, Billund, Denmark. He has designed a brand new element for this year, the curved slope. It allows Lego users create more slanted shapes while still adhering to the company’s strict color palette. The slopes can be used to create more dynamic shapes, such as a curving staircase.
Certain Lego sets are the result of the work of professional designers, while others are the product of the wildly popular Lego Ideas program. The Ideas line allows anyone to design a set, and it’s also possible to produce. It gives fame and 1percent of sales to any designer who convinces 10,000 peers that their creation is worthy of be produced. It’s not a surprise that the most elaborate and stunning sets tend to get the most attention, particularly when they have iconic characters or scenes from films or television shows, or in real life.
Two space icons are among the most impressive Lego models of the space shuttle Discovery and Hubble Telescope. NASA shuttle Discovery and the Hubble Telescope model. Each model comes with display plaques and a small Lego model of the scientist who developed the telescope. Other impressive models include a frame Rainbow and a Steampunk Dragon and a model of Westminster Palace.
