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LEGO Considering Bondi Blue iMac G3 Set
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ArtOfWarfare
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The back looks pretty good, but from the front, if you take off the words "iMac", "MacOS" and the Happy Mac icon, is it still identifiable as an iMac?
I feel like those words and icons are what make it identifiable from the front... and they'd be identified as such even if they were just a part stamped with the pattern. It doesn't seem like a great lego kit to me. Before assembly, it should look like it could be anything or nothing... and then the process of assembling should reveal what it is.
Leave the elements I named at the start in and it's recognizable before assembly. Take them out and I don't know if it's recognizable when you're done. So... I don't think it can be made to work as a lego kit.
And that's before we get into whether Apple might approve this.
I can imagine Apple approving it for sale exclusively in their own physical stores, not online and not via any other retailer (including Lego stores). IDK if Lego would agree to that. And IDK if the resulting revenue would actually be enough for either company to consider it a worthwhile venture.
I feel like those words and icons are what make it identifiable from the front... and they'd be identified as such even if they were just a part stamped with the pattern. It doesn't seem like a great lego kit to me. Before assembly, it should look like it could be anything or nothing... and then the process of assembling should reveal what it is.
Leave the elements I named at the start in and it's recognizable before assembly. Take them out and I don't know if it's recognizable when you're done. So... I don't think it can be made to work as a lego kit.
And that's before we get into whether Apple might approve this.
I can imagine Apple approving it for sale exclusively in their own physical stores, not online and not via any other retailer (including Lego stores). IDK if Lego would agree to that. And IDK if the resulting revenue would actually be enough for either company to consider it a worthwhile venture.
I have a G4 myself proudly exposed on my living room and still working … that should be enough …
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Attirex
macrumors 65816
The only sucks part of these specialized LEGO kits is that they are only meant to build one thing... the parts are generally not universal for building anything, and if you lose one piece, the entire kit is ruined. Plus, LEGO kits are way too expensive these days! Am I missing something?
My brother... have you forgotten about the G4 Cube and the overheating/cracking? Have you forgotten about how fragile the glass on the iPhone 4 was? Magic Mouse?
Have you forgotten about ANTENNAGATE?
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Jobs let Ive get away with many poor decisions, he chose aesthetic over function many times.
That was a physics problem that engineers should have caught. Aesthetic design is separate from engineering. I give Ive a pass on that problem. His design wasn't faulty. The engineering testing phase was.
The charging port on the bottom of the Magic Mouse... that I agree with!
I'd imagine those points don't matter much to the collectors who would be the target audience of the set. Would have no problem selling to those of us who miss our colorful G3 iMacs and iBooks.
I'm surprised so many of you think Apple wouldn't approve. Why not? Don't go off the model in the photo—that's what the creator submitted, and the final design will be refined.
I like it. I'd buy one.
I like it. I'd buy one.
The trick to get Apple to approve it would be to have Lego donate a portion of each sale to some cause. Tim still likes to pretend he’s a philanthropist
GMShadow
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My brother... have you forgotten about the G4 Cube and the overheating/cracking? Have you forgotten about how fragile the glass on the iPhone 4 was? Magic Mouse?
Have you forgotten about ANTENNAGATE?
iPhone 4 Antennagate: Apple's $175M Design Disaster
When Apple introduced the iPhone 4 in 2010, it was a design revolution, sleek, beautiful, ambitious. Within days, though, users noticed something odd. Hold...
Jobs let Ive get away with many poor decisions, he chose aesthetic over function many times.
Or the peeling paint on the TiBooks, or the chipping palmrests on the polycarbs, or the peeling bottom cases on the unibody polycarbs, or whatever the heck the 3rd gen Shuffle was...
HazeAndHahmahneez
macrumors 6502a
You’ve got it all wrong sir, go watch an nba game or something and when we zoom in on the players we see fans in the background taking photos or vids with their iPhones (16 or 17), doesn’t matter which one it’s instantly recognizable especially the newer ones with the three cameras and the 17s with the extra space, they look amazing and definitely futuristic, not boring or humdrum or lackluster…
Omg leave magic mouse alone lol
You have to charge it like 2-3 times a year for chrissakes
flottenheimer
macrumors 68000
It is probably just me, but LEGO sets with huge numbers of "special-bricks" are just not my thing.
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That's right, once upon a time Lego had universal bricks and we could build whatever we wanted - unlimited creativity. Now we can build one, only one thing.
droplink
macrumors 6502
And if you, like me, have taken the iMac apart more times than you care to think, you realize that the shape was not a benefit for the computer itself.My brother... have you forgotten about the G4 Cube and the overheating/cracking? Have you forgotten about how fragile the glass on the iPhone 4 was? Magic Mouse?
Have you forgotten about ANTENNAGATE?
iPhone 4 Antennagate: Apple's $175M Design Disaster
When Apple introduced the iPhone 4 in 2010, it was a design revolution, sleek, beautiful, ambitious. Within days, though, users noticed something odd. Hold...
Jobs let Ive get away with many poor decisions, he chose aesthetic over function many times.
It's like the computer was inside a case and that case had a second case (the bondi blue one).
And man, were they all heavy...
Apple's profile and the computer industry as a whole was different back then.
Devices were different too; now everything is as simplified as possible, so at most, Apple can make changes to colors and surfaces.
Which they should continue to do, but the days of Pixar lamp iMacs, clamshell iBooks and so on are over.
Apple Knowledge Navigator
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I’m sure Apple will see the fun in this set, however I’d be shocked if they approve it. It would also set a precedent for other companies wishing to license products, which is what I think Apple would fear most.
There might be a compromise where they simply remove the Apple branding and refer to it as a ‘90s computer’ of sorts. This is extremely common practice for LEGO.
There might be a compromise where they simply remove the Apple branding and refer to it as a ‘90s computer’ of sorts. This is extremely common practice for LEGO.
Happy_John
macrumors 68000
With all due respect, you really should move firward. You seem to think about Tim Cook far too often, it’s a waste of emotional and mental energy.
You’re spending a lot more time and effort on TimCook than Tim Cook spends on you. There’s no upside to that.
Haven't really thought if it's a good idea to launch this but one thing must be said. The design really captures the iMac well.