Toy Fair: LEGO Indy Flying Wing

Sent more or less live from Toy Fair.

1. [SuperMario__Galaxy]

   From CES?? While it undoubtedly looks cool, there doesn’t seem to be many bits to actually construct.

   I do believe you get a fuel truck also.

   I’d go as far as saying I’m more excited about the Shanghai Chase set.

2. [nathanrudy]

   I have a problem with Legos that are specially formed to make a particular design — that is for modeling, not Lego building.

   What made Legos cool when I played with them, and now when my daughter plays with them, is that you can make anything with the stock pieces. It teaches you to be creative and make stuff with what’s on-hand.

   These kits just teach you to follow directions based on someone else’s imagination. Weak.

3. [strider_mt2k]

   I couldn’t afford the “Shanghai Chase” although that lady made it sound like…

   ohhhh…waitaminute

   I don’t think we’re talking about the same thing here.

   I mean…this Lego set is very very cool.
   You’re gonna make me drag out my bricks and build today, aren’t you???

   Jebus it took me weeks to color sort ‘em and now I’ve got a tote filled with bags and bags of…potential.

4. [strider_mt2k]

   nathanrudy:
   In my collection of pieces is a special bag with nothing but “oddballs” that were made specifically for the sets they came with.
   Much of the time those pieces are useless for general building and end up being a waste.

   I agree. Use more stock pieces.
   The human mind has an amazing ability to see what’s being done with the medium.

   We don’t need details spoon-fed us.
   WE create the details.

   (or we should, anyway)

5. [Maneki Nico]

   Swastikas not included. Some assembly required.

6. [Anonymous]

   This is in stores already.

7. [Agies]

   I don’t know what you guys are talking about. I see a ton of building potential with this set. The cockpit alone has given me visions of a Slave 1 style space ship.

8. [cerement]

   It’s cool, but it’s not LEGO anymore. It’s more like a generic plastic plane model, you might as well just start gluing the pieces together. LEGO used to be about how many different things you could build from the same pieces …

9. [HeatherB]

   While I think it’s important to be creative it is important to learn how to follow directions as well. Most kids can learn how to do both with Legos as long as they are allowed.

10. [Alpinwolf]

    Seconded! Or Eighth’d! (← that’s one fucked-up word to spell!)

    My first set was a tiny 2-truck fire station. Just a pile o’ red bricks to start with. I thought an antenna was a plunger, but couldn’t find the loo! Later I recombobulated the random red bricks into a convincing med-evac chopper! I can’t really re-use Indy’s pre-painted wings for anything else…

    Positively despise Bionicle.

    I often find myself (for the last decade or so) going down the Lego aisle and lamenting “no more Legos.”

    Somewhere in ancient history (‘net time) I saw pics of a Lego demo sculpture that was meta-Lego. They used regulation bricks to construct the look of 10x bricks in building a life-size rendition of their Super Car #8880, pips and all!

    Course, you can still find the Death Star made of seven billion tiny grey bricks. (Plates?) Good stuff.

11. [Freddie Freelance]

    Does it have a Pat Roach minifig? It’s useless to me without a Pat Roach Minifig.

12. [Itsumishi]

    Whilst the stock pieces are of course the essential building blocks of any good lego toy, I wouldn’t discredit the custom pieces.

    I made some pretty damn rad stuff when I was younger by using a combination of stock and custom pieces. Stuff that certainly wouldn’t be possible without the custom pieces.

    Flying-Space-Pirates? Try building that properly without custom masts and sails. The endless variations of glass ‘cabins’ from the various space and jet sets also gave you a lot more wriggle room.

    Then there are the many types of wings that gave you different shapes, etc.

    Looking at the official Lego site for the product my only complaint would be that if those wings are stuck together. If not, they’d be a happy addition to my Lego pieces.