THIS LEGO LIFE
DREAM OR REALITY?
DANIEL KONSTANSKI
For years, Daniel wondered if he had imagined the greatest ever LEGO Blacktron set
DOES ANYONE ELSE have memories from their childhoods that they aren’t sure whether they were a dream or reality? They happened when you were too young to clearly remember things, so they are a jumble of images, colours, sounds and feelings?
As a LEGO obsessed kid and now adult I have had numerous, vivid dreams about LEGO things through the years. Some have proved almost prescient. For example, I can distinctly remember a dream where I walked into a toy store and there was a whole shelf full of LEGO products with transparent purple windows that perfectly matched the actual hue which was released a decade or more later. Other times I have dreamed about finding amazing collections at garage sales and been legitimately disappointed upon waking. Night-time experiences like those were part of the reason that, for years, I wasn’t sure whether Blacktron 6897 Message Intercept Base had actually existed.