By Jorge Figueiredo - August 30th, 2012

I remember when I was a kid and got my first set of LEGO to play with. The large, rectangular green base was like a blank sheet of paper, ready to act as a conduit for my imagination. Whether I was building things from Star Wars, Superfriends, or Space 1999, I always had to start with the same set of blocks. Over the years, building sets have become increasingly specialized. Sometimes I wonder if this evolution is robbing kids today of their creativity, limiting the builder to a particular blueprint. Of course, the opposite can also be said – how often did we hurl curses skyward when our creations didn’t look quite like the object that we based them on?
At Fan Expo Canada 2012, MEGA Brands had a great booth filled with displays of some of their current lines of MEGA Bloks, namely sets for Halo and World of Warcraft. Sometimes, I wish I had a time machine; if I did, I would send some of these sets back to my younger self, because they are awesome.
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