Although they are toys, Legos inspire amazing creations. LEGO artists make use of the small plastic bricks to create everything from architecture to robots. Even the company’s engineers design new components that let builders to construct more complicated models. Erik Varszegi, a Master Builder who works for the Lego Group in Billund, Denmark has created a new component this year called the curve of the slope. It allows Lego users make more slanted forms while staying within the company’s strict color palette. The slopes can be used to create more dynamic shapes, like a curving staircase.
While certain Lego designs are the creations of professional designers, other designs are the business as lego result of the wildly popular Lego Ideas set-design program. The Ideas line gives anyone the chance to create a set, and then get it built, granting fame and a portion of sales to any designer who can convince 10,000 other designers that their design is worthy of being be made into a production. It’s no surprise that the more extravagant and impressive sets typically garner the most support especially when they contain iconic scenes or characters from TV shows, movies or from the real world.
Among the best Lego designs are two iconic space-themed models which include the NASA spaceship Discovery and an exact replica of the Hubble Telescope. Each telescope includes a plaque to display and miniature Lego version of the inventor. Other impressive models include a framed Rainbow and a Steampunk Dragon and a replica of the Westminster Palace.