LEGO Considering Bondi Blue iMac G3 Set

[Diskutant]

Naming something "Bondie Blue" in 2026 is a bad idea... just trust me bro...

why is that?

 

[Patchwork]

It’s the 30th anniversary of the G3 iMac in a couple of years time, so this would well as an anniversary present. Will Apple approve it? Probably not as they don’t really seem interested in celebrating these kinds of milestones and don’t have a relationship with Lego, unlike Nintendo.

 

[contacos]

Ram is probably gonna be too much for Lego to release it

 

[orbital~debris]

Worst mouse ever.

I can see how it would be difficult if used like a more traditional mouse, with the device mostly under your palm.

But the iMac mouse was shown by Apple as something to grab between finger and thumb (on the sides where the coloured, soft-touch plastic was), index finger resting on the button.

I found it very fast, precise and comfortable to use. The notch in the button helped orient it by touch in the correct direction, and the two-tone mouse ball was a fun detail to notice through the translucent top shell.

 

[attila]

I don't like this design. I wish they'd make a larger version with more detail.

 

[mansplains]

I wish Apple would bring back futuristic, edgy designs like this. The boring current designs are really just bland and lackluster.

Many would argue Liquid Glass is futuristic and/or edgy, and that’s going great with MR users

 

[JulianStaples]

As someone who already spends way too much money on both Apple products and Lego, I may as well file for bankruptcy if 'Apple Lego' ever becomes a thing. 🫣

 

[neuropsychguy]

This would be a set I’d buy. I’ll be surprised if Apple doesn’t allow it to be sold.

 

[neuropsychguy]

Nothing like a company getting its fans to do free product design. 🙄

That’s the whole point of LEGO. You buy bricks and put them together however you want to. There are sets you can buy and build, but you’re not bound by them.

Also, if the design is submitted to LEGO Ideas and selected and made into a set, the person gets royalties.

 

[TheOldChevy]

They should made a short series with Apple II, MacIntosh, (original) iMac, original iBook.

 

[dannyyankou]

I saw one of these in Indigo in the E-Waste section at the dump a couple weeks ago. I should've rescued it, maybe I'll go back and see if it's still there.

 

[xraydoc]

I’d put this one along side my Classic Macintosh

https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-88400/Celeri/apple-1984-macintosh/#details

 

[jlc1978]

Now we need to get Serenity over the 10k hump.

Shiny

Looking at the price of LEGO's other licensed builds, I do not want to know how much this will be.
Don't forget to factor the Apple tax!! 🤣

I'm guess a $200 or so build. I'd buy one. Of course, Lego could go multi-color...

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.

I disagree. Design and engineering are integral parts. If your design results in engineering issues you have a bad design. Simply designing something cool and then saying make it work despite real limitations is poor design.

 

[stiligFox]

I saw one of these in Indigo in the E-Waste section at the dump a couple weeks ago. I should've rescued it, maybe I'll go back and see if it's still there.

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Ah man please do! I always regret so much donating the one the indigo G3 that was gifted to me some 15 years ago. I kept the keyboard but not the Mac…

This one looks good external condition, try and grab it if you can!

 

[racerhomie]

I wish Apple would bring back futuristic, edgy designs like this. The boring current designs are really just bland and lackluster.

I want to see the iMac G4 design being reused again. The computer had so much personality

 

[macduke]

On the one hand, Apple isn’t much into merch and licensing deals.

On the other hand, Apple has been running out of new revenue streams and might just take any money it can get.

 

[BJMRamage]

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?

That's what these specialty sets are for. Build it, place on shelf, smile. They aren't toys to really play with but to have a fun time building the unique piece.

I am surprised how awesome the fan submissions are for the new LEGO sets. I like LEGO, I enjoy the build but I haven't really built anything original in years so I am astounded when I see what they can do. Our family LEGO room is just a mess of LGEO all over the floor and half-finished or finished but now partially "broken" sets. We loved the LEGO building show.

 

[IIGS User]

They should made a short series with Apple II, MacIntosh, (original) iMac, original iBook.

I would pony up for a IIGS version. Lots of fond memories of my Apple II days.

 

[Michael4Mac]

Apple is unlikely to approve this, after all, a Lego version would have user upgradable RAM and hard disk!

 

[Plutonius]

Well over a decade without Jobs,

I can't imagine that Apple hasn't hired anyone in the last decade.

 

[thejadedmonkey]

That is a classic Jony Ive design. Not only was it highly innovative, it was also highly influential to the industrial design community both in the tech industry and in other industries. So many consumer products unrelated to tech used designs with gumdrop-colored translucent plastic after the iMac G3 gained popularity.

Steve Jobs can also be thanked for that iMac G3 design because although Ive contributed far more to the design than Jobs did, Jobs kept Ive’s worst tendencies (such as notches, etc.) in check. Ive had many awful ideas, and Jobs let none of them get through.

After Tim Cook became CEO, he let Ive’s bad tendencies run wild. Cook even put Ive in charge of UI design, which he had no real knowledge of nor experience in, and the result was Ive copying Microsoft’s user-unfriendly flat design, a practice which continues to this day.

Hey Tim, do you ever think Lego will ever create anything paying tribute to any product released under your clueless and mediocre tenure as CEO?

You have an... interesting take on history.

The iMac, with its superb industrial design, also came with a hockey puck mouse, which is perhaps the least ergonomic design every made, by any company. Should we thank Steve Jobs for that, too?

Windows 8 design language was built off of the Zune design language, and is actually really really good. Some of the implementation was poor, and a lot of change at once made people upset to put it mildly, but to this day, Microsoft's Material Design is probably the only uniquely digital design that got it "right".

And for the record, Tim Cook was around for the release of the AirPods, which, like or hate them, seem to have re-defined headphones.

 

[dannyyankou]

Ah man please do! I always regret so much donating the one the indigo G3 that was gifted to me some 15 years ago. I kept the keyboard but not the Mac…

This one looks good external condition, try and grab it if you can!

It makes me sad sometimes seeing the things people discard. But I get it, you get too much clutter in your house and you just want to clear everything out. There's definitely a few things I regret discarding.

 

[dannys1]

I'd buy that for a dollar!

 

[FoxyKaye]

Lego is so expensive these days, but this is one set I'd absolutely buy!

 

[jojo123yaya]

i think they will for the older generation and it brings back so many good memories