Cool 3D animated Digital Box at the Lego store

[Follows Closely]

I saw this in the Woodbridge VA store today.

http://www.attractionsmagazine.com/blog/20...the-lego-store/

[FiletOFish]

hmmm. i was at the lego store today and saw that device (nobody was using it). now i know what it does, cool :)

[prateek]

There's already a topic like this, but anyway, this is really cool. I heard that it only works with a small selection of sets.

[Inconspicuous]

I saw these at the Lego Store, and I'm pretty sure they only work on City sets. I thought the concept was quite cool, because it's kind of like the Shop@Home 3D spin except in person.

[RileyC]

Its a really great idea but I would be way cooler if it worked on every set. Its good for kids who dont know how it will be like when they build it.

[prateek]

Its a really great idea but I would be way cooler if it worked on every set. Its good for kids who dont know how it will be like when they build it.

I agree, especially on big SW sets. Imagine putting a UCS Falcon box upto it and a huge Falcon just pops up

[Piranha]

I remember that. At the LEGO Store over here in Honolulu, HI, they had it.

I tried it with a smaller set, but it didn't work. Realizing that it needed to be a certain set. The sets were identified with a label by them.

They were usually larger sets. I tried it with the City Garage and it was interesting.

Cool technology but I like to get surprises when I build the set.

[Big Cam]

Wow, that's pretty cool, but honestly, the picture on the box wasn't enough?

[prateek]

Wow, that's pretty cool, but honestly, the picture on the box wasn't enough?

Well, the TLC's box photographers have a special way to make the sets on the boxes look really good, so this would be better to see the whole set 360, instead of a sneaky angled shot. One classic example would be the Atlantis Typhoon Turbo Sub. It looks really cool from the box, but when you look at it from the front, you can see that the wings are really far apart.

[Follows Closely]

Wow, that's pretty cool, but honestly, the picture on the box wasn't enough?

My kids loved this. They tried ever box in the store. The minifigs, trains and cars would move around, it was entertaining.

[samurai-turtle]

I think this technology is making it way to home computers. Because, I remember seeing a commercial on "Home Depot's" gift cards and if you hold it to a web camera it showed a 3-D image on the product you were looking at. And I think "Target" had some thing similar with one of the weekly advertisements if you hold an image to the web camera (I don't know what this was since I never tried it and, do not have a web camera).

[prateek]

I think this technology is making it way to home computers. Because, I remember seeing a commercial on "Home Depot's" gift cards and if you hold it to a web camera it showed a 3-D image on the product you were looking at. And I think "Target" had some thing similar with one of the weekly advertisements if you hold an image to the web camera (I don't know what this was since I never tried it and, do not have a web camera).

A couple months ago, in the Lego Club magazine, there was a black shape, and under it, it said it was a "controller" for a Bionicle game on lego.com. You hold the shape upto your webcam and your character in the game moves accordingly. Sounds kinda cool.

[Whittleberry]

I added a photo of this, taken at the Bluewater Store, to the LEGO Set News Worldwide pool on Flickr.