Although they are toys, Legos inspire amazing creations. LEGO artists make use of the tiny plastic bricks for everything from architecture to robots. Engineers from the company also create new elements that allow builders to build more complex models. Erik Varszegi is a Master Builder at the Lego Group, Billund, Denmark. He created a brand new element for this year, namely the curved slope. It allows Lego users make more slanted forms while adhering to the company’s strict color palette. The slopes can also be used to create a more dynamic shape such as a curving staircase.

While some Lego designs are the work of professional designers, other designs are the result of the wildly popular Lego Ideas set-design program. The Ideas line lets anyone create a set, and then get it manufactured, and offers fame and a percentage of sales to designers who is able to convince 10,000 fellow designers that their creation is worthy enough to be made into a production. It’s no surprise that more elaborate and awe-inspiring sets are the ones that garner the most support particularly when they feature iconic scenes or characters from television shows, films, or 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 telescope comes with a display plaque and miniature Lego version of the inventor. Other impressive models are frames of a rainbow, a steampunk dragon, and a https://noelsbricks.com/2021/07/13/generated-post-2/ replica of the Palace of Westminster.