This makes me sad, LEGO...historical and other important ideas, people, places, and things rendered in brick should be valid as submitted projects.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2015/03/13/392871323/lego-says-you-can-t-build-that
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LEGO Americana Roadshow: Building Across America I just checked out this traveling exhibition from LEGO and was quite impressed. The scale ... -
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When we let politics trump science, people are needlessly put in harm's way. http://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/self-censoring-fears...
I was frustrated when she posted that it wouldn't be made.
ReplyDeleteSorry, but some little girls do dream of becoming SCOTUS Justices.
As Weinstock herself says, I also understand why they have this policy in place. And the headline is misleading; Lego isn't taking the stance that one can't build such a project, just that it's not applicable to be made as an official product.
ReplyDeleteWhat if it wouldn't be a Supreme Court of Law but the High Yard of Rules for High Legal Elves?
ReplyDeleteSo since there's no more active patents on the Lego brick technology, can't these sets be crowd funded and/or 3D printed now?
ReplyDeleteLionel D Lego's bricks are injection-molded to a dimensional precision no 3D printer can currently match, and certainly not at scale. That's one of the reasons all non-Lego bricks pretty much suck.
ReplyDeleteConnor Cline I think everyone does. But it is being misapplied here. Our Justices are supposed to be free from the prevaling political winds and focused on the Constitution. That the court seems increasingly partisan is a problem with the increasing polarity in our nation. But these women very much represent the pinnacle of an entire profession that many young girls aspire to. My message to Lego would be "Please preserve the spirit of the SCOTUS and insist on keeping it apolitical."
ReplyDeleteRugger Ducky: Even so, I think a good case could be made towards not associating a real court with a toy construction set. An Elfland court of law would probably be better for all parties, and I don't think it would lose any of the aspirational/inspirational aspects of building a "real" Supreme Court out of Lego.
ReplyDeleteCraig Froehle: Would Lego be likely to sue if another company would offer Lego-compatible minifigs of people that Lego doesn't touch?
ReplyDeleteAndres Soolo LEGO couldn't sue them just for being physically compatible with LEGO's own bricks. LEGO could sue them for making such a claim without getting LEGO's permission to use the LEGO brand name in that way or for calling the figures "minifigs," which I assume LEGO has some kind of IP protection for, or possibly for making them look very, very similar to LEGO's style of minifigs.
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