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"Sometimes I see sets come in that might not be exactly like it is in the instructions, but that's almost more fun, because that means someone played with it and had that creativity and that innovation to build it into something new."
That's Davis Parkhurst, senior manager at Bricks and Minifigs, a store in Tyler, Texas, where World Creativity and Innovation Day was celebrated Saturday.
The store hosted a speed building competition, in which participants had to assemble a set as quickly as possible using the instructions in a manual, reports the Tyler Morning Telegraph.
It also hosted a Minifig swapping event, in which participants could bring in their own Minifigures and swap them out with others.
"We really love the creativity that Lego brings out in people," Jennifer Stewart, who owns the store with her husband Scott, tells the Telegraph.
"It's completely interchangeable.
It's a standardized brick and standardized plate, and they'll go together in a billion different ways."
World Creativity and Innovation Day was adopted by the UN in 2000.
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