Image this: Lego’s engaged on a Polaroid reproduction

One in every of Lego’s newest tasks will strike at lots of photographers’ nostalgia: a duplicate Polaroid OneStep SX-70 prompt digicam. Presently, there aren’t particulars about what the package will truly appear to be, how a lot it’ll value, or when it’ll turn into obtainable, nevertheless it’s one other instance of a fan-made design formally going into manufacturing because of Lego’s Concepts platform.

The mock-up was created by Minibrick Productions and includes a ton of enjoyable, nerdy touches: it has a working viewfinder, allows you to spin a gear that shoots out a “image” from the movie tray, and is “practically to-scale,” based on the undertaking’s description. It additionally features a reproduction field of movie, full with Polaroid’s stunning pentachromatic rainbow.

It’s price noting that not all of those options will essentially make it into the official Lego package and that the model you may truly purchase might find yourself wanting a bit completely different. The photographs on this story and on Lego’s announcement weblog submit are from Minibrick’s submission to the Concepts program, which lets folks give you designs for Lego kits that customers can vote on in hopes that they’ll turn into precise merchandise.

Truly mass-producing one thing comes with a distinct set of issues, so units might get pared down fairly a bit from the unique Concepts idea. Nonetheless, it’ll be enjoyable to see a Polaroid digicam get the Lego remedy, and as somebody who has a working OneStep kicking round that I often use, I could contemplate choosing the package up so I can examine it to the true factor. Though I do type of want this Lego set had been useful — as in, an precise digicam that took footage. I really feel just like the picture and construct high quality would find yourself being fairly just like the true deal.

Making a working model would clearly be considerably extra complicated and costly, and given that you could nonetheless purchase actual working Polaroids, maybe it’s higher to only maintain it as a mannequin. (I simply hope Lego retains the cute mechanism that spits out a picture-shaped brick).