Citations › Citation ID: 27

C27. BOOK: Daniel Konstanski, The Secret Life of LEGO Bricks: The Inside Story of a Design Icon (Unbound, 2022), p. 91.

[Krentz, Knudsen, Pedersen] realised that the ideal approach would be to invent a simpler way to construct walls. Individual bricks require a lot of raw material for creating the spaces in which studs and tubes interact; faces and wall thicknesses result in substantial surface area. Eventually, these designers concluded that the perfect solution would be a part that had tubes on the bottom and studs on the top, with those surfaces connected by a sheet of plastic just thick enough to be rigid. Thus, the castle panel was born.

Panels were invented to reduce costs when designing large castle sets.