Comments on: ‘Lego’ ad, 1960 http://howtobearetronaut.com/2011/10/lego-ad-1960/ Ever get the feeling you're living in the wrong time? Mon, 10 Oct 2024 21:10:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Alan Bickerstaff http://howtobearetronaut.com/2011/10/lego-ad-1960/#comment-80698 Alan Bickerstaff Mon, 10 Oct 2024 08:44:46 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=31867#comment-80698 Mind you, the newer Lego does allow you to do this...... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIXByCAIzos Mind you, the newer Lego does allow you to do this……

]]> By: Alan Bickerstaff http://howtobearetronaut.com/2011/10/lego-ad-1960/#comment-80693 Alan Bickerstaff Mon, 10 Oct 2024 08:35:24 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=31867#comment-80693 The Samsonite connection was a deal that Lego did in 1962 for Samsonite to manufacture for the American and Canadian market. Lego has always been a Danish company. As someone who grew up with Lego (and Meccano), and who probably went into engineering as a result, I have to say that the modern version of Lego is vastly inferior. As soon as they went down the route of making model specific kits with special parts, the level of inventiveness dropped dramatically. The whole point was to make something of your own invention, break it up and start again. The specific kits restrict this, IMHO. My lads used kNex, sadly they seem to have gone the same way. The Samsonite connection was a deal that Lego did in 1962 for Samsonite to manufacture for the American and Canadian market. Lego has always been a Danish company.

As someone who grew up with Lego (and Meccano), and who probably went into engineering as a result, I have to say that the modern version of Lego is vastly inferior. As soon as they went down the route of making model specific kits with special parts, the level of inventiveness dropped dramatically. The whole point was to make something of your own invention, break it up and start again. The specific kits restrict this, IMHO. My lads used kNex, sadly they seem to have gone the same way.

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