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This article was published by Andrew Evans (@Famine) on March 26th, 2019 in the Car Culture category.
You Can Actually Sit Inside This Full-Size LEGO McLaren Senna
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Ouch.
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It has some sort of metal substructure right? If not I'm amazed the doors don't collapse under their own weight when they open up. Unless of course it's glued together, which is probably is if McLaren is transporting it all over the place.
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No, if you wish to be strictly pedantic about it, which arguably your statement very much indicates, Lego or Legos can indeed be used to refer to any items in the general shape and form of the product produced under the trademarked name/brand of LEGO, if that is indeed the commonly used vernacular - which it clearly is, owing to the fact that you have to strive to correct someone with LEGO's boilerplate corporate 'trademark-protectionary' response to such 'misusage' of the term, despite the lack of any ambiguity in the understanding of his usage. The fact is, all you are doing is parroting their corporate spiel.
Language serves at the altar of, and is dictated by, the ability to express ideas, not the other way around. And, more to the point, corporations certainly do not dictate common language, de jure. Hence their incessant worry that it becomes used in a manner that weakens their claim to trademark rights - particularly, since LEGO's patent has long since expired, allowing others to offer their own branded products of the ever recognizable bricks.
In fact, despite all of their guidance in regards to the do's & don'ts (or dos & don'ts or do's & don't's, pick your style) regarding their brand name, every major editor, style guide, and journalistic outlet agrees on such matters, which is to disregard companies' guidances in regards to their names when their names disregard the normal style standards - e.g., Lego, instead of LEGO.
In other words, say and use it however the oof you want, so long as it doesn't conflict with commonly accepted practices, thereby impinging on the ability to efficiently and effectively express ideas. As far as I can see, I did not see any such instance.
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And yet still, LEGO (or "Lego" if you prefer) is a company name and not an item. You can say "a Lego" and "Legos" (or "a LEGO" and "LEGOs", as the users above did, if you wish to chide them for their corporate-speak capitalisation) if you so desire, and it does seem to a peculiarly North American affectation, but they have always been bricks (and latterly "elements", although this came with the advent of LEGO Technic) right from the moment of Christiansen's first patent for a "Toy Building Brick" back in 1958. Block, for similar reasons, is also acceptable.
LEGO's official terminology would have you believe that the little people are called "Mini-figs", which... no.
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This is giving me a headache. I need an aspirin.
Amusingly, that one and "hoover" are the only ones so far that really work with the UK population; the major plaster brand in the UK is "elastoplast", but we just say plaster. Tissues are tissues, and a photocopier copies.
Amusingly, that one and "hoover" are the only ones so far that really work with the UK population; the major plaster brand in the UK is "elastoplast", but we just say plaster. Tissues are tissues, and a photocopier copies.
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I like to think all 42 modelers spent the first 200-300 hours looking at the instructions and collectively going "it looks nothing like it, did we make a mistake?"
Also do we know if that time given is man hours or build time from first to last brick?
Also do we know if that time given is man hours or build time from first to last brick?
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I'm surprised they didn't go the same route as the Veyron regarding the bodywork, i.e. that element that curves around the bodywork better. But I guess maybe that's more Technic than standard Lego. Also they didn't do the steering wheel in Lego on this one for some reason.
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