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Websites don't have that blocky '90s shape/look now either. There's an eerie parallel where both the Web and LEGO have moved increasingly from a place of "limited aesthetic suggestions so you can build anything you want" to "it's gonna be much easier for you if you play/watch/live within a walled garden with highly scripted interactions from the entertainment/advertising industry." It's interesting that Minecraft has risen as a reaction to this trend.

Huh. Everything on the web is just blocks. Simplified, minimal block layouts, that are mobile focused. Even rounded buttons are gone.

Remember this is a meter tall, some of the detail is lost in the image. Lego Ideas kits only use pre-existing parts.

Nintendo actually made rounded Lego-style blocks in 1968-72 called N&B Block http://blog.beforemario.com/2011/10/nintendo-n-block-introdu...