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LEGO Teases Vintage Typewriter Set For You To Go Clickety-Clack With Bricks
By Mikelle Leow, 09 Jun 2021
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Update: LEGO confirmed the set after this article was published, as well as released official images:
Spark nostalgia with this LEGO replica of an old-fashioned typewriter 📖 https://t.co/6PhehRihEo pic.twitter.com/ZJd31lbAUp
— LEGO (@LEGO_Group) June 9, 2021
The LEGO Ideas Typewriter is here, and it even comes with a note written and signed by LEGO Group chairman Thomas Kirk Kristiansen, a fourth-generation member of the family business, as a love letter to “the lost art of letter writing.”
Worth writing home about are the set’s functioning center typebar that rises each time you enter a key, as well as a carriage that slides as you type. There’s also a platen roller to insert real paper into.
The 2,079-piece set, priced at US$199.99, will be available on July 1. LEGO VIPs will have first access on June 16.
Image via LEGO Ideas
Image via LEGO Ideas
Image via LEGO Ideas
Check out our original article, with updated photos, right below.
LEGO has proven time and again that you’re never too old to play with its bricks. Not only has it just released a DIY world map, its largest set yet, but it has also created a full-size light-up car model with Lamborghini that’s made up of over 400,000 parts.
If these grownup builds are your jam, it can probably also be said that LEGO’s upcoming set will be just your type—pun definitely intended. The toymaker hinted at the release with a cryptic video of a woman with her back turned, typing away and inadvertently creating LEGO ASMR.
Ready to start a new chapter… pic.twitter.com/HIuBr8AhL9
— LEGO (@LEGO_Group) June 7, 2021
As Jay’s Brick Blog notes, this is confirmation that the company will soon debut a ‘Typewriter’ design pitched by Steve Guinness to LEGO Ideas, an initiative that turns fan projects into reality after obtaining enough votes. It is reported that the set will contain 2,078 pieces and will be priced at US$199.99.
Guinness explained that it took numerous prototypes before he finally got to his latest version. It was especially challenging to sort out the keyboard layout and he eventually had to downsize it, he told LEGO Ideas in an interview. Of course, the finalized variation is still subject to change, though he said he would be “very interested” to see how the LEGO team might adapt his design.
The fan said he is proudest of the typewriter replica’s mechanical section and its functioning hand crank. “It produces a realistic movement and also a great clicking sound that really reminds me of a real typewriter,” said Guinness. He believes that the complex build “showcases the versatility of the LEGO brick,” and that it would sit strikingly on desks at home “or even in the office at work!”
Guinness dedicates the project to his wife Rachael, “my best friend and an amazing support to me,” and said that he hopes to walk into a LEGO store with his family and discover his design on shelves.
Well, this script of his will soon come true, and LEGO teases that it is “ready to start a new chapter” with the Typewriter set.
Image via LEGO Ideas
Image via LEGO Ideas
Image via LEGO Ideas
Image via LEGO Ideas
Image via LEGO Ideas
Image via LEGO Ideas
Image via LEGO Ideas
Image via LEGO Ideas
Image via LEGO Ideas
Image via LEGO Ideas
[via Jay’s Brick Blog, images via LEGO Ideas]
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