alt Hacker NewsIt seems like it will be mildly fun for a few minutes, but not all that revolutionary. Does it leverage what makes Lego great and why people buy it for their kids and themselves? I don’t think so. Triggering your imagination and seeing limitless possibilities in what you can build or pretend is one of the keystones of Lego, in my opinion. Creating a brick that offers a few presets for specific types of models and play seems limiting.
But who knows, I’m almost 40, and I’ve been out of the target demographic for a long long time. My favorite sets were from the Space Police era.
It uses NFC, where the NFC tag carries a payload to tell the brick what to do. So in theory they can develop new skills for the brick and release new "trigger" blocks for it.
But to your point of: "seeing limitless possibilities in what you can build or pretend is one of the keystones of Lego", the first comment I saw on the instagram post about this was "but I like to make the pew pew noised myself".