This has got to be Lego shrinkflation.
December 12: Child Cart
This appears to be a cart for a child. I have no idea what is happening.
Rating
Fun ★☆☆☆☆
Yesterday’s prize was a baby, and I guess this is that baby’s push wagon. As far as I can tell, it has no other purpose. If it had been, say, “built out of Legos,” in the way that Legos traditionally worked, the individual pieces could have been repurposed to build something interesting, yet what we have here is a complete, molded, single-purpose object. There was no fun in building it, and I’m not even having that much fun imagining what it would look like full of cod or helmets.
Ease of Build ★★★★★
The wheels snap in, just like they did on the skateboard, and the handlebars clip on, but I doubt that it’s going to awaken a generation of future engineers.
Comprehensibility ★★☆☆☆
I understand that it’s a hand truck for babies, but I still can’t comprehend why it would be a prize. It might have been a nice accessory, possibly along with the baby itself since neither came with extra parts (there used to be so many extra parts that I made a whole section called “Extra Parts”).
Is this for collectors? Like is there someone out there trying to get every Lego piece ever molded and “Infant Wheelbarrow” is their White Whale? (this is a metaphor: “White Whale” was the name of a coveted Beanie Baby).
If it could be connected to other things, perhaps if it had some sort of interlocking pips and hollows, maybe it could have been used for something else. As it is, it can never be the the captain’s chair on the bridge of a spaceship for babies (it has no way to be secured to the deck) or a baby version of a Lambretta scooter tricked out for a Mod (there’s no way to mount 700 rear-view mirrors and headlights to it) or a whimsical bomb disposal robot…well, maybe a whimsical bomb disposal robot, but you get the idea.
Extra Parts ☆☆☆☆☆
This came with zero extra parts. Just like yesterday.
Overall ★☆☆☆☆
I guess it’s cute, but it’s not my jam. Give me something to build. Make out of parts that could build something else.
