Yea, I think a key part of the story here is that LEGO designers have gotten *really* good at doing interesting things with the standard bricks, from both a technical and creative standpoint. So in building LEGO I get to enjoy a second-hand dose of Engineer Brain in a fun tactile format.

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My godson, spouse, and I are still building the Lego Technic orrery (sun-moon-earth moving set) as we had it almost finished and then it wasn’t moving properly so we need to go back and fix it.

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Yeah - I got a Lego Dune Ornithopter for Christmas, and then me and my daughter built it together across a couple of rainy weekends. The coolest part is the internal mechanisms for the landing gear and wing movement, which you can see in the full thing.

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there's also some geniuses out there who will tell you "if you have Set A and Set B you can make Set X that lego hasn't made yet." they were out with Rocky from Project Hail Mary very quickly.

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It's just model building. It is a kind of pre-fab model building and *most* model building is pre-fab too.

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