Citations › Citation ID: 147

C147. BOOK: Daniel Konstanski, The Secret Life of LEGO Bricks: The Inside Story of a Design Icon (Unbound, 2022), p. 281.

one of the team members picked up a prototype 3x2 studless plate which was being circulated for review as the latest expansion of the tile family of elements. In a moment of inspiration, he clipped off the last third from both long sides at an angle, to create a pointed end. This became the element on which powers would be printed, now known among LEGO designers simply as ‘the NEXO shield piece’. That description, while a good shorthand, is technically inaccurate, as the element became the power piece that was attached to a shield. Nomenclature aside, its distinctive look set the tone for the theme’s eventual aesthetic: sharp had joined heavy.

2x3 Tile, Pentagonal (part 22385) debuted as printed decorations which attached to shields in the NEXO KNIGHTS theme.