Will it be a flop? Is it actually innovation or does Lego need more cash?

I personally find it interesting but not really needed. But I will have to see it in person to judge.

    • WxFisch@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 个月前

      This seems a little different though no? Like it appears to be a fully contained system that should work as long as you have a smart brick and tags. It doesn’t need to physically interact with the various tech enabled elements so at worst you end up with some plates and minifigs with what appear to be passive electronics inside that still work as normal pieces.

      I think what I’m most leery of is that the smart brick itself looks like it has a fully seal battery that isn’t user serviceable which means in a few years these just become e-waste. I hope LEGO has considered that and has a way to replace them.

      These look fundamentally different to Powered Functions or Mind Storms for instance which were focused on expanding the capabilities of LEGO to be interactive. The Smart Brick though looks very specifically aimed at enhancing the play pillar of LEGO and not at what most AFL want (in the creativity or building/engineering pillars). This isn’t really for the 16+ audience is my big takeaway, it’s for kids in the same way the Mario interactive figures are for kids mainly.

    • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      8 个月前

      Think of how many incompatible motor systems they’ve made over the years

      Maybe I’m missing some, but the 9V, Power Functions, and Mindstorms motors were fairly compatible with each other via official LEGO adapters.

  • kusttra@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    8 个月前

    Upon reading the initial announcement, I was cautiously optimistic. After seeing the CES demo, though, I think it will be a load of fun for kids as is.

    Ultimately, though, I think how well it will do will be heavily impacted by how hackable it is. It will eventually be hacked, of that I have no doubt - it’s just a matter of how easy and how cheap it is to do. If they used common standards for NFC & the data contained onboard the tags, we might see these used pretty regularly in MOCs - imagine a train layout that plays different sounds and displays different lights as a train moves through a town, GBC modules that react to modified balls with tags in them, or MOCs that add simple movement as a means of triggering custom nature sounds.