death of modulex

[Josh]

this was posted in the LAN:

Modulex Bricks sold to LEGO Juris

This announcement was put up on the Modulex Bricks Facebook page a couple of hours ago.

“We are pleased to tell that LEGO Juris A/S has acquired Modulex bricks in a mutual agreement. It has been important for the LEGO Group owner family to ensure historic rights stay within the owner family. The potential to produce Modulex bricks has also been addressed and there are no plans to manufacture Modulex bricks in the near future.
Thanks for your interest in Modulex and for joining this Facebook page!”

How has this been received in the AFOL Community?
Any feedback is appreciated, even if it is “no reaction here”.

Thanks

probably a lot of us don’t know what modulex is/was. I’m thinking it’s inconsequential at this point.

[Benjamin C Good]

If I remember correctly, Modulex was created in the 60’s as a tool for architects to visualize building designs. I don’t know how successful it was in that regard.

There’s a couple people in the AFOL world who are super into Modulex, and one year at BrickFair our goodie bag contained a sample of Modulex bricks, I believe supplied by one of the people who’s really into them and had some Modulex stuff on display that year. I’m sure I still have mine somewhere.

I have zero interest in Modulex. They’re a different scale than regular Lego pieces and so they don’t attach at all. They’re old and uncommon so they’re expensive and hard to find used, and I’m not sure you can find them new at all. They do come in a neat variety of pastel colors, but the parts selection is extremely limited, and leans heavily towards 1x bricks.

I’m sure people could come up with clever ways to incorporate a modulex build into a Lego construction, and no doubt if you had a pile of them, you could build something neat. But I can’t see how anybody could sustain it as a full-time hobby or even have more than a passing interest in it when the world of Lego already exists.

• This reply was modified 9 years, 10 months ago by Benjamin C Good.

[Matt Redfield]

I third that emotion. If you found a hoard of them at a garage sale for $20, it might be fun to tinker with them. Otherwise, completely unsustainable and almost completely impossible to integrate with our mainstream LEGO stuff.

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