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Re: Page 7 of Spring S@H catalog
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lugnet.castle
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Fri, 3 Mar 2000 02:07:51 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Paul Davidson writes:
> > > And for good measure, while I had the camera out, I also took a picture of
> > > the much-maligned portcullis arch that people have been discussing in this
> > > thread:
> > >
> > > http://home.earthlink.net/~mesteele/images/archway.jpg
> >
> > Yikes, what a piece of *crap*! If it wasn't so multi-coloured, they'd be
> > tempted to make the entire castle one piece!
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> OMG! What a travesty! :-( What the heck are they thinking?!?!?!
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> Pbybleth...ptui...ptah!
OK while I don't particularly like this piece either let me try and come up
with a very weak defence for TLC making this part.
Flame Retardent suit on...
Given the space that TLC decided to give for the entrance and the particular
style of entrance (a porticullis) and if you want the architechural look that
the inverted 2x2 slopes gives then the had to do this. Let me say that
again... they had to do this given the constraints given above.
This is because the porticullis gate must slide up through the center of the
part. If they had used 2x2 inverted slopes they would have blocked the slot
through which the gate must pass.
Flame Retardent suit off...
All that being said I believe that another solution could have and probably
should have been figured out before taking the cheap way out and making this
almost POOP.
Eric Kingsley
The New England LEGO Users Group
http://www.nelug.org/
View My Creations at:
http://www.nelug.org/members/kingsley/
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