Citations › Citation ID: 128

C128. BOOK: Daniel Konstanski, The Secret Life of LEGO Bricks: The Inside Story of a Design Icon (Unbound, 2022), p. 204-205.

Creatures could be large or small, bizarre or recognisable. Construction was facilitated by a brand-new prototype friction hinge, which could lock into a socket then both rotate and articulate. Far from BIONICLE, which would go on to be compatible with LEGO Technic parts and marketed under that brand name, Genesis was separate and made up of detailed organic components meant to look like real, if slightly fantastical, body parts. There were no studs, pins or anything else in the whole system that were recognisable as LEGO DNA. These other-worldly elements were, however, just the beginning of Genesis’ unique new collection of parts.

Click Sockets were developed to add strong, posable joints to Project Genesis (which led to Galidor).