Tom Donaldson, senior vice president at the Lego Group, claimed the new smart brick system “brings creativity, technology and storytelling together to make building worlds and stories even more engaging, and all without a screen”.
Some people just seem to want to complain about every change to childhood favourites - I understand why, as so often it turns out not to be an improvement at all, but a response to some snowflake who wants things to be more 'multicultural', but this seems to be a genuine improvement!
The smart bricks communicate with each other and will even decide whether enough accurate laser blasts have been delivered to achieve destruction. The smart bricks also emit light and play music. At a demonstration of the new toys, a Lego executive explained that, when playing with Darth Vader’s craft, “once in a while you get The Imperial March, just to get the vibe going”.
As a kid, who wouldn't want that? What could the objection possibly be?
...some argue new ‘Smart Play’ technology undermines the Danish construction toy’s gift for harnessing a child’s own imagination.
Well, imagination doesn't seem to be something valued in children anymore, since they might use it in ways policymakers don't like.
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I dunno Julia, am I the only person who always thought that Lego was a steep drop in toy standards from Meccano, the best thing ever for children to learn how to do and make things? It taught us how pulleys work for example, we were even able to create our own steam engines, the list of possibilities was endless, and Meccano even found its way into structural engineers' and architects offices ..........
Lego - nah -- Richard
I never had any Meccano, which is probably why I cannot do any DIY now to save my life!
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