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          It's not a single-use brick, it's a lack of our imagination
                                        
> Earlier last month, Jason Kottke posted a story about how Lego has become
> single use [1]. It's the sort of golden-era thinking that I promised myself
> I wouldn't fall in to, but I ended up nodding along. Yeah, Lego's too
> corporate. Lego sold out!
> 
> Except that it hasn't.
> 
> Robin Sloan at Snarkmarket shook me out of my false nostalgia with the Tao
> of Lego [2]. Despite opening by agreeing with Jason, Robin put together a
> post crammed to the gills with links to amazing repurposing of the
> supposedly single-use bricks. Want an example?
> 
> …
> 
> I bought a pile of the standard bricks and—as an experiment—this Star Wars
> kit [3] to see how ridiculous the pieces were. On the box, it appears to be
> made of all-kinds of single-use bits. Building it told a different story.
> The feet of the walker turn out to be the same part as the bodies of the
> Droids. Some of the joints are re-purposed guns. There are dozens of little
> clever things so that as you follow the instructions, there is moment after
> moment of discovery. “Oh, I can do THAT with that part?”
> 

Via Jason Kottke [4], “There is no single-use Lego | Quiet Babylon [5]”

It's amazing what can be done using Lego [6], even with the non-Lego Lego
Bionicle parts [7].

Click the link. Click all the links. You know you want to. And it's worth it.

[Hard to believe this is Lego] [8] [9] 

[1] http://kottke.org/09/09/legos-becoming-just-another-single-use-
[2] http://snarkmarket.com/2009/3327
[3] http://www.thetoyzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/lego-star-wars-
[4] http://kottke.org/09/09/legos-
[5] http://www.quietbabylon.com/2009/there-is-no-single-
[6] http://www.lego.com/
[7] http://www.flickr.com/photos/monsterbrick/3888191970/
[8] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2009/10/03/solar-collector.jpg
[9] http://www.flickr.com/photos/gladius/2332020850/

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