[HN Gopher] Lego Ideas Typewriter
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Lego Ideas Typewriter
Author : orjan
Score : 119 points
Date : 2021-06-16 11:30 UTC (11 hours ago)
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| karmakaze wrote:
| It took me a long while to see the LEGO-ness in it. It's so well
| finished that you can't tell it's LEGO. Certainly you know
| because you assembled it. But then again the pieces are so
| specialized that you lose a lot of the creativity that LEGO
| inspires.
| leemailll wrote:
| Interesting. Just watched this
| (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs5TEuZPQl8)
| grammarprofess wrote:
| Dang that's wild
| nindalf wrote:
| I wonder if the moderator of HN gets a ping every time his name
| is mentioned like this. "Why did someone summon me on a Lego
| thread? Oh ok, just an exclamation."
| g105b wrote:
| Ooh, how long until someone inserts a Teensy microchip and a USB
| cable to make this a functional computer keyboard?
|
| Either way I really want one!
| adolph wrote:
| Or just take those keycaps for a lego-compatible switches:
|
| https://hackaday.com/2017/12/12/connecting-cherry-mx-key-swi...
| colejohnson66 wrote:
| Retro Recipies / Perifractic did that with a C64, sortove:
| https://youtu.be/1Fb0Kn2bVtM
| lnyng wrote:
| Opening this link with my Firefox iOS 34 crashes the browser
| reliably. Anyone else seeing this issue?
| colejohnson66 wrote:
| That's odd as I posted it using Firefox on iOS (version 34)
| as well). Clicking it works for me.
|
| I don't develop for iOS, so I'm speculating here, but could
| it be a URL handler for YouTube URLs exists and you don't
| have the app it's set to? (As in, iOS says YouTube urls get
| opened in the app, but you don't have the app?)
| jalk wrote:
| Does anybody know if the creator of a "Lego Idea" gets royalties
| if their kit ends up in stores?
| dacur wrote:
| per wikipedia, 1% royalties
| robg wrote:
| I'm struck by the post-modern, non-working reflection that costs
| significantly more than the functional object that's still
| readily available. LEGO has truly crossed into the art world.
| Like a painting of a soup can.
| twic wrote:
| We have reached Baudrillard Condition 3.
| em-bee wrote:
| if you think the typewriter is bad, have you seen the new lego
| adidas shoe?
| nindalf wrote:
| When wasn't Lego art? I display my Lego dinosaurs next to my
| TV. I think they look cool. They weren't meant to be functional
| dinosaurs.
| bluetomcat wrote:
| The "conventional" Lego builds are meant to be a non-
| functional miniature of a real-world or a fictional object,
| with some playing features. This creation crosses this
| boundary because it tries to replicate a real-world object in
| its original scale, with its inner mechanisms, and yet it
| doesn't achieve the purpose of the original object. Seems
| somewhat wasteful, cynical and purposeless.
| nindalf wrote:
| Only as wasteful, cynical and purposeless as my dinosaurs.
| I look at them and feel happy. That's pretty much it. If I
| assembled this typewriter, I'd look at it and feel happy.
| walugipnts wrote:
| people have been making models for centuries, the only
| cynical thing here is your opinion
| cephalization wrote:
| Yeah but I get to build this typewriter... I derive value
| from the act of building and replicating the inner
| mechanisms of a typewriter that I could not build before.
| Isn't all entertainment somewhat 'wasteful' or
| 'purposeless' beyond enjoyment?
| bluetomcat wrote:
| I'm 35 and am a keen collector of 1:18 scale diecast
| model cars. The sense of enjoyment for me comes from
| seeing their intricate details exactly replicated, from
| putting models from a similar age/brand/model next to one
| another and comparing them, from knowing that they can
| endure a long time without degrading and I can pass them
| to my son.
|
| I fail to understand the appeal of "adult non-toy" Lego
| sets like these, however. It's impossible to replicate
| real-world stuff at any serious level of detail (the
| smallest brick is far too large), as mechanical devices
| they are flimsy (no greasing, no bearings, clumsily-
| weighed movements), separate sets do not stand well next
| to one another due to different scales and wildly varying
| subject matters. I do know that it is fun to build a
| Technic race car with steering, suspension, differentials
| and pistons, but such model-like stuff doesn't bring much
| value, IMO.
| antiterra wrote:
| I got a sense of enjoyment from diecast model cars
| because I could open up the doors and pretend they
| transformed into airplanes. I also hated them because any
| steering or suspension components were generally plastic
| and flimsy by toy standards. I didn't see the appeal to
| these things you couldn't really play with.
|
| People like different things for different reasons.
| Guitar Hero is not the same as playing a guitar, and
| comparing the two with the expectation that they will
| offer the same rewards will lead to disappointment. But,
| some people like both.
| allturtles wrote:
| No, Legos don't and can't exactly replicate all the real
| world details of the things they model. It's no surprise
| that different hobbies have different pleasures. But
| surely you see that you have a niche hobby that to many
| (most?) people would superficially appear to not "bring
| much value"?
|
| The joy of Lego is taking generic bricks and figuring out
| how to represent the thing you want to build out of them.
| With pre-designed kits like this, many people find
| pleasure in seeing how the designer figured out how to
| use piece X to represent object Y, or used a particular
| building technique to create a particular effect. e.g.
| the Lego Empire State Building uses the generic grille to
| great effect to render the windows of the building, and
| generic yellow tiles to make convincing little taxis, and
| some neat building tricks to create the setbacks in the
| tower without making it look 'lego-like' (with abrupt,
| brick-size shifts).
| robg wrote:
| Seems different in kind, not degree. A 3 year old plays with
| Duplo to make planes and rockets. Yes, art in the sense that
| drawing on paper is a form of art. But a close to realistic
| rendering of a soup can that now sells for $millions is / was
| reflecting back a reductive sense of nostalgia for a premium.
| Kudos to LEGO for capitalizing for a premium, just a
| different product for a different consumer that could buy and
| appreciate an actual typewriter. This consumer centric
| version of art forms is perhaps the same reflection by which
| Warhol was dismissed by some early critics. Just not the
| version of LEGO that reflects the endless design iterations
| in any one box.
| snypher wrote:
| Are you saying I can buy a $200 typewriter somewhere?
| thih9 wrote:
| Yes, there are a lot of used typewriters for sale. I just did
| a search for "typewriter working" on ebay.com, narrowed it
| down to offers below $70 and got multiple pages of results.
| jmrm wrote:
| A pastel green Olivetti Lettera 32 cost about 100EUR used, so
| that's totally true
| riffraff wrote:
| Ah I'm not the only one who sees that as a Lettera 32! (which
| I own, and is still awesome)
| shoto_io wrote:
| They are definitely not "solving a problem". That's for sure.
|
| Instead, Legos is obviously fulfilling/creating a need.
| usrusr wrote:
| What they are creating is a market for a third party innards
| substitute that replaces the mechanism for driving the page
| carrier with something that speaks BLE HID. A toy collectible
| that you can nondestructively convert into something you can
| actually use on your job and back? They can run a victory lap
| before even starting!
| TchoBeer wrote:
| I don't know, they're fun. Why is there so much hate for such
| a simple enjoyment in the comments?
| shoto_io wrote:
| I don't hate them! I love LEGO, played a lot as kid.
| golergka wrote:
| It's a different object with different functionality. You can't
| use it to actually type, but you can use it to easily and
| conveniently create something unique to your liking, mixing and
| matching pieces from any LEGO set in the company's history.
| Tomte wrote:
| At least the keys are printed. Those would have been a nightmare
| to center. Only two stickers in the set.
|
| (You can't take that for granted, even the 700 Euro set #75252
| comes with a sticker)
| wongarsu wrote:
| All printed keys, and a new fabric element. I couldn't believe
| today's Lego would splurge like this, until I got to the
| "Includes Note from Chairman Thomas Kristiansen, based on the
| typewriter of founder Ole Kristiansen". I guess the executive
| still gets nice models without stickers.
| bombcar wrote:
| Printing LEGO is one of the modern improvements that they've
| implemented - it is _substantially_ easier and cheaper to
| print an element than it was twenty years ago.
| wongarsu wrote:
| I should probably clarify that I meant "splurge" as in
| "spending where they normally don't", not as in "spend
| beyond a reasonable amount"
| bombcar wrote:
| Yeah - just pointing out that in general LEGO has been
| printing prices that would have been stickers 20 years
| ago.
|
| Part of is also that they did a study and realized that
| stickers piss kids off because they're hard to apply
| correctly.
| aidenn0 wrote:
| As a kid, stickers were the bane of my existence for
| everything; Legos, Transformers, etc.
|
| I had to decide between doing it myself and having it
| look like crap, or getting my parents to do it and
| feeling embarrassed that I didn't do it myself.
| sharkweek wrote:
| A lot of people in this thread are forgetting that it's not
| necessarily about the actual completed object but more the
| process of putting it together that often brings the most joy
| with LEGO.
|
| I don't think I'm more at peace than the few times a year I sit
| down with a new LEGO kit and build it. It's a delightfully
| enjoyable break from just about everything else that keeps my
| mind busy and is such a calming activity.
| organsnyder wrote:
| My wife gave me the LEGO grand piano this past Christmas. It
| was an absolute joy putting it together, seeing how the
| designer made everything work.
| gpspake wrote:
| That Piano was awesome. Everyone's amazed when they see it.
| There have been so many great "Ideas" kits.
| spoonjim wrote:
| To me, the greatest joy of LEGO sets is seeing brilliant
| engineering up close. There's brilliant engineering inside an
| iPhone, but I can't see it. It's all locked inside a boring
| looking little 1cmx1cm gray chip.
|
| When you assemble something like a working pneumatic
| articulated motorized digger, 99% made out of the same basic
| 200 interchangeable parts, it's incredible.
| Fricken wrote:
| It really becomes apparent when you attempt to build your own
| creation to the same standards of some of the sets geared to
| older builders.
| ziml77 wrote:
| I'm confused by the hate too. Like I wouldn't care to have yet
| another thing on a shelf that's just more plastic waste, but I
| don't have an issue with people enjoying this. It's not like
| something that takes a bit of effort to put together and then
| is just an art piece is anything new.
| cainxinth wrote:
| This is my problem. I very badly want to build some of these
| (particularly the Saturn V and some of those huge Technic
| supercar models), but I really don't need another tchotchke
| collecting dust on a shelf.
| slowmovintarget wrote:
| Have children. Then you get to buy as many Lego sets as you
| want, but they're really for them... honest.
|
| The Saturn V set is excellent, BTW.
| Tomte wrote:
| I has nice building techniques, but unfortunately, it's all
| hidden behind a rather sparse exterior and doesn't look
| very exciting at first glance.
|
| The playing features are cool (several stages that can be
| separated and put back together), but way too fragile to
| actually have children play with it.
|
| It's a very fine display model, though. I've put it on a
| bureau right when you enter my apartment.
|
| The ISS is superb, too (and rather cheap), but the new
| Space Shuttle was where I eventually drew the line. My
| pocketbook is very thankful for that.
| slowmovintarget wrote:
| I just ordered the Space Shuttle (with model Hubble
| telescope). It's totally for my kid... really.
| sharkweek wrote:
| My oldest, 3.5ish, is just starting to get into the little
| LEGO sets. To say I'm not beyond excited to uh... buy more
| kits for "him" would be a huge lie.
| Fricken wrote:
| Any kid I'm sure will gladly accept a pre-built Lego set once
| you're tired of looking at it. Many adults would too.
| mtmail wrote:
| In Germany we have two companies that will send you a set (or
| 3, depending on plan) every month. It's like the old Netflix
| DVD model. Each sets gets washed, they added extra pieces and
| there's insurance for loosing pieces.
| (https://www.bauduu.de/)
| pininja wrote:
| That's a brilliant idea! Is there something like this in
| the US? How has your experience been using it?
| spoonjim wrote:
| LEGO is vastly more popular in Europe than in the US.
| mtnGoat wrote:
| I believe there was a US based company doing it at one
| point but they went out of business.
| ElijahLynn wrote:
| There are a few US offerings:
| https://www.verywellfamily.com/best-lego-subscription-
| boxes-...
| bombcar wrote:
| Buy - build - sell.
|
| Used in box sells quite well - especially if you sell after
| they've gone from store shelves. eBay or BrickLink.
| JohnWhigham wrote:
| What do people usually do, just break it down and put all
| the bricks in one bag? I feel like it'd take even longer to
| do that than put it together...and then to put it back
| together when you have to sort through thousands of pieces?
| bombcar wrote:
| Usually, yes. Most people just dump all the pieces out
| anyway when building.
|
| It's actually not as bad as it seems especially if you
| have space to spread out and roughly sort while working
| (special memory works well).
| criddell wrote:
| I believe a lot of people who buy one are mostly thinking of
| how hot this is going to be on eBay.
| ecesena wrote:
| Omg now I wish they'd do an enigma machine!
| samizdis wrote:
| That's a lovely piece of kit, and I am sorely tempted to put in
| an order, but LEGO's promotional video and associated text
| descriptions seem to be a little deceptive.
|
| As far as I can tell, the model - which has a "LEGO first" -
| _Black and red ink spool ribbon is a new fabric element._ - and
| each key has a letter, and the carriage moves, etc ... doesn 't
| actually type.
| jan_Inkepa wrote:
| Oh yeah good catch; they should probably add a disclaimer that
| it's not functional.
| mattashii wrote:
| It has one (singular) typing element that moves and hits the
| 'tape', which you might consider as typing. But, it indeed is
| not functional for the whole alphabet, nor does it have
| functional shift keys to shift cases.
| ElijahLynn wrote:
| Same. The video shows a typed letter in the machine too,
| leading me to believe it actually worked. But further digging
| reveals this is not the case. A ton of people are going to
| actually buy this thinking it works, and it won't and they will
| be pissed.
| scoopertrooper wrote:
| This may shock you, but none of those lego ships are sea worthy
| either.
| seattle_spring wrote:
| WHAT. this changes everything, as I was planning on taking
| the summer off to take my Saturn V into orbit.
| spoonjim wrote:
| The Lego Pop-up book does pop up though.
| bmitc wrote:
| Some of them are. I had one as a kid. The base allowed the
| boat to float in water.
| lb1lf wrote:
| -Then you misplaced the keel and suddenly had an enforced
| lesson in vessel stability in the comfort of your
| bathtub...
|
| Good times.
| bombcar wrote:
| The Germans had access to a motor - always described in
| the manual but not available to the US.
| MiscIdeaMaker99 wrote:
| I think you'd have to be a little gullible to think it's a real
| typewriter, especially if you've ever used a real one.
| abruzzi wrote:
| This is really the opposite of what I always loved about Legos as
| a kid. All these complex kits seem more like jigsaw puzzles--only
| one way to go together. What I loved about Legos as a kid was
| making my own creations.
| riffraff wrote:
| I see your point but even when I was a kid 30 years ago Lego
| had specialized kits (castle with horses, space modules, car
| races) and even today they sell "just bricks" boxes.
|
| There's certainly been a shift in marketing (e.g. Ninjago) but
| if you want the raw build your own experience it's still there,
| the offer has just expanded.
| handrous wrote:
| Most (not all!) new kits, even the ones that are marketed at
| kids (not the obviously-intended-for-adults ones) try hard to
| minimize exposed nubs, and use _tons_ of itty bitty bricks in
| ways that feel like they fell out of some kind of automated
| CAD process.
|
| The result is smallish, expensive, huge-brick-count sets
| that're cramped (hard even for kid-hands to play in), hard to
| non-destructively add on to (you have to rip bricks off to
| find nubs to attach to, sometimes doing a _lot_ of damage
| before you 've got much useful nub-area exposed), and really
| hard to repair without the manual and a ton of time if part
| of it gets smashed.
|
| Some of my older castle sets have a brick count similar to
| modern structures (again, ones aimed at kids, not
| architectural models or whatever) but are over twice the size
| and came with like a dozen minifies and horses. The per-piece
| price may not be much different on modern sets, but there's
| been some serious size deflation.
|
| The new ones look better (I'm guessing they sell better, too,
| for that reason, especially to adults making the buying
| decisions). The old ones were much better LEGO.
| TedDoesntTalk wrote:
| Just fyi, there was a time when lego kits and minifigs did
| not exist... just lego blocks. More than 30 years ago, so
| before your time.
| lkramer wrote:
| You can still buy those sets: https://www.lego.com/en-
| gb/themes/classic
|
| The highly detailed sets really takes nothing away from those.
|
| It is also my understanding that those free play sets sells
| well, so they really are complimentary.
| slightwinder wrote:
| This set is from Lego Ideas, a site where people can add their
| own ideas and vote for them. The sets coming from there are
| usualy for adults, collectors, fans. They had single set from
| franchises like Voltron, WALL-E, Doctor Who, Mickey Mouse. But
| also have Artful sets like a Piano, this typewriter. Or even
| sets of real space-stuff like Saturn V-Rocket, ISS or Apollo
| Moonlander.
|
| For kids they still have their regular simple or mildly complex
| sets, depending on age and franchise.
| genocidicbunny wrote:
| So don't follow the instructions and just make your own.
|
| I don't know when you were a kid, but when I was a kid Lego
| sets _were_ like jigsaw puzzles. Lots of big single-use pieces
| that were hard to adapt into something new.
|
| Modern Lego sets may look like they can only go together one
| way, but they are made of a bunch of smaller general-purpose
| pieces. There is much more room for reusing those for your own
| creations than there used to be.
| jacquesm wrote:
| Nothing stops you from doing that today. Your best bet for
| buying bricks is ebay, $9 / Kg or so is pretty good pricing for
| heirlooms ;)
| thrower123 wrote:
| I'm somewhat depressed by how explicitly Lego is marketing
| towards 30-something man-children who build things to put them on
| the shelf.
|
| The worst part is that this model-kit design style is spilling
| over and infecting their actual toy themes. It's harder for kids
| to repurpose a set that's built 40% out of small tiles and cheese
| wedges and little greebly bits.
| Tomte wrote:
| Buy Lego Minecraft. Lots and lots of 2x2, 2x4 and 2x8 bricks in
| sensible colors.
| thrower123 wrote:
| Might have to look at this. The Classic boxes don't actually
| have the classic colors in much sufficiency, and are likewise
| full of tiny 1x1 and 1x2s to bulk up the part count
|
| e.g. https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/creative-building-
| bricks-...
|
| It's a less than useful selection of pastel colors to really
| do anything with.
| lawn wrote:
| Plenty of Lego sets for the kids as well. Just avoid these sets
| if it's something you worry about.
| estaseuropano wrote:
| The kids spilled over their Lego box a few days ago - so many
| unusable and pointless 1x1 round pieces, special weird shapes,
| etc. Its all the sets which are fun to build but seem more like
| a puzzle than a Lego set which you can really reuse, rebuild,
| etc. I'm not normally nostalgic, but my box as a child used to
| be all real blocks and I could build great stuff. Now its more
| marketing to sell more and more branded sets. Worst is the Lego
| city stuff though.
| lucideer wrote:
| If you think a 1x1 round piece is unusable/pointless, you are
| truly lacking in imagination.
|
| Even the varied array of "one-off" weirdly specific pieces
| always find an unexpected application in a pinch somewhere.
| I've been recently quite entertained by the creative work of
| a Dublin lego-er making pubs (with many many small 1x1 round
| pieces, and a selection of weird one-offs for signage/etc.)
| https://snapwidget.com/embed/927292
| handrous wrote:
| > If you think a 1x1 round piece is unusable/pointless, you
| are truly lacking in imagination.
|
| I think you're underestimating the percentage of bricks in
| modern sets that can be described like this. They're very
| hard to mash up (e.g. "I'm going to use these two castle
| sets to build a totally different GIANT castle!" or "Now
| this pirate base is an oceanographic research center!"), to
| add on to, and to repair if damaged. Plus they're just damn
| _tiny_ for the part count.
|
| They do sell the buckets still, which is always the retort
| to complaints about modern sets, but it makes me sad that
| the _entire_ way I played with LEGO sets when I was growing
| up is nearly impossible with (most) modern sets (the ones
| intended for kids, I mean--I don 't care if the ones
| plainly marketed to adults aren't good for those things, of
| course).
| bombcar wrote:
| I still remember as a child loving the "customized" pieces -
| printed, rare - much more important that the normal bricks
| ht_th wrote:
| My mother, who is in her 70s, loves to build these new sets!
| She also loved to build all the old Lego sets from her children
| again for her grand children. Just to see if all the pieces
| were still there, she said :-)
|
| I like living in a society where playtime isn't just for kids!
| skipnup wrote:
| There still are lots of classic boxes of "normal" pieces:
|
| - https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/bricks-bricks-
| bricks-1071...
|
| - https://www.lego.com/en-us/themes/classic
| hinoki wrote:
| It's even better now than it was, since now you can get those
| basic bricks from IKEA for cheap:
| https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/bygglek-201-piece-lego-r-
| brick-...
| jacquesm wrote:
| That's not cheap. Ebay bulk buys are cheap. And they come
| with the free surprise factor too. Why not recycle?
| [deleted]
| jbrnh wrote:
| My dad complained about modern specialized lego bricks 30 years
| ago. I got some of his old bricks from the 50's. They got some
| weird shapes too. Nothing changed.
| jacquesm wrote:
| Fun fact: some of the oldest plastic Lego is H0 scale
| vehicles. I have a bunch of these they are ridiculously
| valuable today.
| loudmax wrote:
| Totally agreed. I have several single function pieces from
| sets from the late 70s and early 80s: -
| spring actuated forklift loaders - boat hulls that
| actually float in water - airplane/helicopter rotors
| (incompatible with technics because they predate it)
|
| Not to mention all the doors, windows, trees, wheel axles and
| pulleys that can really only do one thing.
|
| There was a period in the late 90s/early aughts when Lego
| really went adrift with the single function pieces. I got my
| kids a Lego airplane set from that era that consists
| basically of plane parts. No matter what you do with those
| pieces they look like they're parts of an airplane. It's
| pretty sad.
|
| Fortunately, Lego corrected course. They still make
| specialized pieces, particularly the minifigs. When you're
| working at that scale, nearly all the minifig tools are going
| to consist of a single piece. But most of the sets now
| consist of largely of pieces that are flexible enough to be
| assembled into anything. Sets from the Creator line come with
| a booklet to assemble whatever is on the box (eg. a robot or
| a dinosaur), but none of the pieces are so specialized that
| they can only be used for one thing.
| thrower123 wrote:
| This argument is about a decade out of date, and I'm
| completely uncomprehending how someone could not come up
| with a way to repurpose doors and windows and wheel
| axles...
|
| There was a terrible period in the late 90s/early 2000s
| when they did make a bunch of really chunky large pieces
| that were impossible to do much with. Now the pendulum has
| swung to the other extreme, and designs are littered with a
| ridiculous number of miniscule pieces, which do little but
| bulk up the part count and add baroque detailing.
|
| A terrible example of this style of design is the most
| recent X-Wing (https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/luke-
| skywalker-s-x-wing-f...). Clearly a model marketed at
| children. But the whole thing is incredibly fragile, made
| up of fiddly bits, with a couple spring-loaded shooter
| thingies tacked on to give it a modicum of play features.
| The entire segment aft of the cockpit is a complicated mass
| of technic beams and pins with a facade over the top, to
| make the wings fold open, except that the wings don't
| actually lock open. It looks really pretty, but as a Lego
| set, it's a big failure.
| jbrnh wrote:
| Yes, and it almost killed the company. I read an article a
| while back how they had no accounting from the designers to
| production, and literately had 8 different chef minifigs
| (also, making star wars sets helped them out as well)
| seppel wrote:
| This is true, but what changed is that Lego is now filling
| the inside of their models with ugly colored bricks, which
| makes changing the models much harder than in the past.
| handrous wrote:
| The trouble with the modern sets isn't specialized bricks,
| it's that 3/4 of the brick count is short 1x1s and tiny flat
| cladding pieces used to cover all the nubs. They're worse for
| play than the old ones with more large pieces (so, a chance
| of actually repairing the damn thing from memory if part
| broke) and exposed nubs to add on to. Older sets also had way
| more interior space or surface area for a similar brick
| count, for ones where that mattered (buildings, vehicles).
| elliekelly wrote:
| They still make the "classic" sets of just basic bricks in
| assorted colors. Around the holidays you can get a giant box at
| Costco for $20 and I think Ikea might have a classic set even
| cheaper. The classic bricks come in bright yellow boxes while
| the dedicated builds are usually in blue boxes and the duplo
| sets (classic brick sets for toddlers with extra large pieces)
| are in green boxes. I think it's sometimes easy to miss the
| yellow boxes in the lego aisle when you're so focused on the
| blue boxes.
| jccc wrote:
| Um, if I click "Continue" am I agreeing to their cookie policy?
|
| Is this popup a GDPR notice?
|
| For anyone who doesn't see it: There's a giant blue box on the
| left that just says continue to lego.com, and then a giant yellow
| box on the right for going to their "Play Zone" for kids I guess.
|
| Then in microscopic text underneath they only describe their
| cookie policy but say nothing about what you're agreeing to.
|
| [EDIT] Okay, it seems there is a cookie-control thing underneath
| after you click. Only discovered it by meddling with the
| Inspector. But that whole first thing just really looks like a
| dark pattern.
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