Agreed.
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/12/lego-is-the-perfect-toy.html
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I always wanted the erector set ( no jokes please) the metal girders were cool. I guess lego's came along later. I still remember stepping on my son's lego's , in stocking feet.
ReplyDeleteThe smartest (mechanical) engineer I know refused to let his kids play with Lego, only erector sets. His argument was that Lego allows you build physically impossible things where an erector set forced you to learn about how things work in the real world. I had both - still play with Lego.
ReplyDeleteI had a lot of building toys growing up. Lego is the most versatile of them all.
ReplyDeleteI loved the classic brick legos when I first started playing with them, but I was fascinated by the Lego technic sets once I got older. It was always interesting to me how they could be applied to different engineering applications.
ReplyDeleteI actually wish they would make parts in larger scale, something big enough and durable enough that I could tie them in with my various woodworking and prop projects. For example, imagine how much fun it would be for a kid to make a wooden down-hill go cart that uses large scale Lego parts to make wings that flap as the cart rolls.
I hated erector sets...not enough variety in the parts to satisfy both my functional and aesthetic goals as a kid.
ReplyDeleteCraig Froehle When I was a kid. ( early to mid sixties) it was lincoln logs, erector sets or for the youngest kids, wooden building blocks. Lego's were fairly new in the US. As I recall they just came as plain little snap together blocks. The erector sets my buddies had, came with little electric motors to power the cranes you built. Seemed cool to me. Although slot car set's were even cooler.😎
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