Once upon a time, I was a real-bricks-only builder. And—I was biased. Not only did I personally prefer physical bricks, but it seemed to me that digital building was basically cheating. Too easy, too fake. Not in the true spirit of LEGO. Like putting wax on fruit to make it shiny. In one word, insincere. (Fun fact: sin cere… is Latin for “without wax.” Okay, so it comes from jewelry, not fruit… but still.) I doubt I would ever have put it quite so straightforwardly back then. I just kind of thought, “Aw, here’s a build that would have been good, ruined! It’s all digital and there’s nothing really there!” I even remember with burning distinctness a comment I made on a digital build, after saying that it was too bad it wasn’t real bricks. “I don’t know, I just have that, ‘Why digital?’ mentality. :P ” I was conscious of my bias, even back then—we’re talking 8-10 years ago—but...
