I love building with Legos, as regular readers will know quite well. When I was a kid, I would frustrate my older brother because I’d want to “use my imagination” with the pieces instead of building the actual sets. As I’ve gotten older, I very much build what’s advertised on the tin (as today’s contributor might put it).
Still, few things are more fun than diving into a random pile of pieces and just winging it. When my niece and nephews were younger, the one activity they could all get behind was doing just that with Uncle Tyler. We’d dump a bunch of Legos onto my parents’ dining room table and go to town building stuff. They would ask me to build various things for them, but my favorite was seeing the crazy stuff they came up with.
One thing I’ve come to appreciate is that I am not a Master Builder—far from it. I see the things people do with Lego and I realize I am still, in terms of skill, a six-year old building overly geometric structures.
Lego have really gone “mainstream”—not that they were ever on the fringes, but they’re now advertised for everyone from kids to adults—and the talents of millions of builders are easily on display via social media, television, streaming, etc. People will spend hours building entire cities, full of hyper-specific details, or complex spacecraft with motorized parts. It’s all quite fun—and humbling.
Naturally, it’s become competitive, and television shows feature Lego builds taking on insane challenges to see who is, truly, a Lego Master.
With that, here is Ponty’s glowing review of the Australian version of the television series Lego Masters:
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