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Re: bulk ordering is here!
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lugnet.lego.direct
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Fri, 16 Jun 2000 15:36:22 GMT
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Troy Cefaratti wrote:
> > As Kevin Loch stated, perhaps you could use some ideas for future bulk • packages.
> > Here are a few sample items I have thought up. Note these packs contain • more than
> > one piece type, but are all related to each other. And only one color per • pack:
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> I thought it was a good idea that they were selling them by the individual
> piece. If they start packing "similar" pieces together, then people are
> still likely to have to get that they may not actually need. And I thought
> that was the whole point of bulk ordering...to avoid getting the pieces that
> you don't want.
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> Example: I may want some small tiles, but I personally do not need/want and
> 1x2 with center stud. I have TONS of these already, and don't really use
> them for much.
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> Just my thoughts, of course....
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> Troy
True enough, but my take on this is that more than likely LEGO is not going to
make each of the pieces that I described in this thread as an individual parts
pack (at least I would be surprised if they did). Some of these you would have
to admit make a lot of sense though - the sloped brick sets for example. If
LEGO made each and ever one of these pieces as individual packs, I would be very
happy. But I don't think that's going to happen, and that's why I listed these
related parts packs.
Back in the late 1960's LEGO made a few "related items" parts pack. One was a
tiles parts pack with 1x1, 1x2 and 2x2 tiles (in red/white, blue/yellow,
black/gray), two colors to a pack. Another one of these parts packs had rounded
bricks - 1x1 cylinder bricks and 2x2 quarter circle (macaroni) bricks, also two
colors to a pack.
Also, that 1x2 tile with central stud was a useless piece to me as well for many
years. Then when I studied some of the LEGO model shop models, I discovered
that these pieces were very usefull indeed. You can use them to "indent" a row
of bricks. For example, if you built a house 20 studs wide, you could add a
ridge or cornice to the roofline 21 studs wide by putting these underneath the
row of bricks that you want to protrude slightly. Another example of this is
the Thatcher Perkins Locomotive (#396), whose smokestack funnel goes up from 3
bricks wide to 4 bricks wide to 5 bricks wide, each row exactly centrally
located above the row below it thanks to the use of these 1x2 tiles with central
studs. There are many other uses, but one needs to see a diagram (a picture
says a thousand words), in order to best describe them. These 1x2 tiles with
central studs are a very important part of the LEGOLAND buildings.
Gary Istok
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| (...) going to (...) parts (...) have (...) If (...) be very (...) these (...) Why not? Remember this is a totally new service. As you can see, there are two different slope bricks available right now. 2x2 and 2x4 ones and these do not come in a (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| Gary Istok <gistok@umich.edu> wrote in message news:394A4976.3CA90A...ich.edu... [snip] (...) for many (...) discovered (...) a row (...) a (...) the (...) is (...) from 3 (...) central (...) picture (...) with (...) I was at the Lego Outlet Store (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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