I was actually looking for another LEGO related topic and came across Modulex bricks, apparently created by LEGO many years ago and sold in bulk volumes to architects and the like. I've never heard of them and apparently neither has wikipedia shock! But I quite like the idea of ordering 30,000 of these things :-)

I found a couple of links if anyone is interested, there are also some nice mosaic using LEGO too.

A piture of a brick

mosaics

Peter

I've heard of them. They don't fit with normal bricks, I think. Pretty useless unless you feel like being an architect yourself.

Ebay gave me following results. Not too expensive, but if you want 30.000, it will be ;-)

Modulex is another LEGO company!

Started producing planning boards where you use "LEGO" tiles with letters.

They also tried to make small to scale bricks for architects

But architects always saw LEGO(Modulex) as a toy. Go figure *sweet*

The company still exists! Today the make "infomation bords". Look here modulex.dk

I found a little more info here

And here you can see it in use

Oh. And by the way I own some Modulex bricks :-$ Not that I use 'em much

Oh. And by the way I own some Modulex bricks :-$ Not that I use 'em much

Are the bricks compatible with normal LEGO? It sounds like it was the LEGO company that first started producing these things so you would have thought so.

No they do not fit with normal LEGO

Here you can see the difference

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rooreynolds/with/91150210/

go to this page go a bit down and find out some ways to use the bricks

also see them compared to lego

too bad they dont make that any more. *n* my dad will love the fact that they are so small