Those are very impressive pictures, however, I have seen far more impressive things done with Lego, using the newer parts that are specialized, but also a great many of the older parts that aren't, but for the record, the people that build those things have invested well over a 1000$ into their Lego collections so they can build that stuff. The thing is a kid with a 20$ allowance won't ever be able to get a collection like that, and the sets they can buy are mostly specialized parts like that one dump truck someone posted a picture of. 90% of that set, as large as it is, is made up of about 7 parts, specialized. all those parts can be used to do really cool things, but its hard to trump having lots of the generic parts like the older sets had, they are simply more versatile, simply put, I can do a lot more with 50 generic bricks then 7 specialized ones.
