On your marks, get set, Lego
Three staffers compete to create the best car using Lego. MATT PRIOR brings you the results
Not even Stellantis has modular parts bins of this depth and quality
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JACK HARRISON
Three of you – Prior, Page and Phillips – get some Lego and each make a sports car, said the bosses. You’ll have 90 minutes.
(you can read these over the page). And then, Prior, you need to pick a winner. Unbiasedly.
Write about what you’ve done With skin in the game, I couldn’t be unbiased, so I decided to open it up to the office for judging. A Concours de Lego, if you will. Well. What a mistake that was.
Believe me, I know the pain, Felix Page, of receiving no first-place votes and even one fourth place in a competition of three for your BMW ‘E30’ M3-alike. I’m glad you told us what it was meant to be, but I’m not sure it helped. There are shades of Plymouth Superbird to the wing and the body-to-wheel size ratio is clearly more American barge than European sports saloon. If you’d told us it was a new low-rider concept, it might (but might not) have picked up more votes.
My grey buggy received seven votes, but the process revived bad memories. My children had a pony, Snowy, who is so old that she was old when we got her more than 15 years ago. And oh boy, did judges at parochial pony shows know it. Snowy would be hosed and brushed and have her toenails polished and her tack sparkled before being presented to a panel of experts: a couple in tweed with a bag of rosettes they’d hand out to anyone, oh anyone, but Snowy. The unfairness came flooding back.