Citations › Citation ID: 153

C153. BOOK: Daniel Konstanski, The Secret Life of LEGO Bricks: The Inside Story of a Design Icon (Unbound, 2022), p. 292.

Simply put, the parts catalogue was not ready to support this style of building. Nowhere was this more obvious than windows and doors. The buildings for LEGO® Town and, later, LEGO City required little variation in these elements, so the parts catalogue had a limited selection. Urban buildings, however, rely heavily on different window and door styles to instil unique architecture and aesthetics. To complicate matters further, the great parts purge was in full swing, and many of the few pieces that had been available were now retired and those that remained were mismatched. A four-stud-wide by six-brick-tall window frame existed, but there was no corresponding door element to fit inside it. For doors, only a free-standing variant that was five bricks tall was available, meaning that café doors and windows would be mismatched.

The need for new window and door sizes was made clear by the emerging LEGO Modular Building series.