It’s International LEGO Day. Sorry, let’s show some more respect…IT’S INTERNATIONAL LEGO DAY!!! Where do I even start with this one. Another where I think it’s a case of just seeing what AI can generate with some fairly broad prompts rather than anything too prescriptive.

The day itself marks the day on which the inventor of LEGO, Danish carpenter, Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, first submitted his patent for the original LEGO brick in 1958 — but his plastic brick was actually invented in 1949. And just because it’s a bugbear of mine it’s LEGO, not LEGOS. They aren’t plural, even when multiple bricks are used together.. The name LEGO comes from the Danish words “LEg GOdt” which translate to “play well”.

Fun fact while i was doing some research for this map – apparently LEGO is the world’s largest tyre manufacturer, producing over 400 million small rubber tyres each year for all its various models, mostly in the LEGO Technic range.

Anyway, enjoy the map but more importantly today – build some actual LEGO and Play Well.

Original Prompt (ChatGPT)

I would like you to use all of your map prowess to build a map to celebrate International Lego Day. I am imagining a three-dimensional map on a typical brick baseplate. The map must look like it is built from Lego bricks using the typical Lego colours. Perhaps the map shows the location of Lego stores across the world using a Lego lightsaber as a vertical point symbol. Maybe the bricks can be used to show elevation changes, appropriately coloured. I’d like the map to be adorned with all sorts of Lego style images and graphics. The map should be titled “Lego – Play Well!”, and in a Lego styled typeface. Come on – I know you can build a wonderful, imaginative, and playful map.