Once a year I run into Todd at an annual Christmas party. Todd was the head clown with the Ringling Bros. Circus.
I asked: "What is Tom doing these days?" (His friend Tom was also a Ringling Clown)
Todd responded: "He's working for the Lego company making large Lego displays."
Me: "Oh, that's interesting. In all honesty, I never understood all the adult interest in Legos."
Todd: "You're one to talk - Model rocket man."
Touché Todd!
Hi Chris, I confess that as an adult I still enjoy both model rocketry and Legos. Some people don't grow up I guess.
ReplyDeleteFor all us kids who grew up playing with Lego, our childhood nostalgia is a big driver. There is also the desire to pass that love along to our own children.
ReplyDeleteBut have you seen the amount of kits Lego targeted at adults? And how much those kits cost? Lego sells a 7800 piece kit of the Millennium Falcon from Star wars. It's 42 inches long when assembled and costs $800. Definitely not something the average parents will buy for a child.
It's LEGO and rocketry for me, too!
ReplyDeleteI have a huge stash of LEGO parts, a LEGO blog, and lots of builds displayed in my home. Funny, I never had LEGO as a kid. Didn't get into the bricks until I was 58 years old!
If anyone would like to check out the LEGO blog, it's linked on a sidebar in my rocketry blog....
ReplyDeleteI too build LEGO and rockets for me they are hobbies where my inner artist and engineer can get along and have fun together.
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The LEGO metaphor also has use in introduction to computing -- like with programming language Scratch ( https://scratch.mit.edu/ ), where the user "clips" together logic blocks.
ReplyDeleteDesigner Shoji Kawamura has used LEGO to help work out the details of some of the mechanisms of the transforming robots he designed for anime ( https://youtu.be/suCsM0t3jYE ).
Clowns. The perception of clowns has definitely changed over the course of my life!
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