A Million Little Bricks by Sarah Herman

Author:Sarah Herman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2012-01-02T16:00:00+00:00

The writing obscured by a price label on this 1990 Technic helicopter explains how the set can be motorized using the new 9-volt electrical system available as set 8720. © Jordan Schwartz

In 1997 a complete overhaul of Technic’s box design marked the division of the system, with two separate types of models emerging. The CAD drawings that had previously appeared on the boxes of all Technic sets were replaced, on the whole, by graphical environments for the vehicles, e.g., a race track for Turbo 1 (8216) and a landing strip for VTOL (8222). These small-and medium-size vehicles continued along the modular theme, and were fairly easy to build, and while there were functional components, such as Bungee Blaster’s (8205) pull-back-and-go elastic cord fixing, the real mechanics of Technic sets were reserved for larger, meatier builds such as Pneumatic Front-End Loader (8459) and 1998’s Tow Truck (8462). The year 1997 was also when the first programmable brick appeared in a Technic set with the Code Pilot Barcode Multi set (8479). MINDSTORMS—LEGO’s robotic engineering line—was quick to follow, but never included the Technic name despite models being made largely from Technic parts.

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