LEGO Digital Designer

Yeah, the biggest problem with this is the horribly, severely limited brick selection. I don't play with Legos for hours like I did when I was a kid, but I like building little desk decorations and the like from time to time, and this thing has real potential, almost completely destroyed by silly limitations.

Its very very very slow on my Intel Mac Mini... I'm talking half an hour to load.

Ahhhh...

From the site: "Mac version runs on Intel Macs" which, sadly ≠ universal binary. It just means Rosetta compatibility. Bummer.

But I ran this version on my Macbook yesterday! I swear. Am I misunderstanding something?

I have to agree with Jason -- the program is NOT Universal, it is PPC. Oh, well.

It is still a PPC app, not universal binary, or am I missing something?

Though I haven't tried the latest release the previous release suffers from several significant flaws.

The first and most important is not all parts and colors are available. This severely limits what you can design. For example, some parts available in green but not in red, and so forth. This baffels me, because if you can get it in green why not red? And some basic pieces are missing altogether?

The other issue are bugs that prevent you from placing bricks properly; in certain situations the program doesn't allow you to place brick where you want without skewing them or putting them where you don't want. You end up fighting with the program and this leads to a very frustrating experiance. So much so, you almost don't want to use it.

However, this program is an awesome idea. I really hope they iron out the issues with it. Even my 5 year old loves playing with this. Gone are the days of digging for hours through boxes of pieces looking for the one you need.

I really like how Lego has kept their toy relevant in today's modern technological age. From this to their new Robot, they are really doing some interesting things.