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Re: Steamed Onions
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lugnet.adventurers
Date: 
Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:21:11 GMT
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In lugnet.adventurers, Kevin Heckel wrote:
   I mean Big Ugly Rock Pieces. And the equation works for me, btw.

Ahaa!

  
   That depends a lot on how well you’ve sorted your collection, but yes, rare parts, and parts you don’t have are of course easier to add digitally ;-)

Yes, I do need to get to that whole sorting ordeal one day..

You mean... that you haven’t sorted your lego?!! Right! OK, really: How have you sorted it?

  
  
   I never did use MLCAD much, I always wanted to use parts that weren’t rendered yet :P

Who knows, those parts can be modelled by now, so that’s not an excuse :-p

You got me there.

Yes and we’re still waiting for someone to model those oniondomes... Somebody who really likes them - like you ;-) That’s always a good way to make a part more popular.

  
   The only de-laming that’s possible is the fact that the ones building successfully with them raises in our esteem, but that don’t rub off on the part. A lame part can never ever be de-lamed, that’s my opinion.

What if the lame part ends up being integral in a MOC trend? (Like the Pod craze, but those dome parts weren’t lame in the first place.)

Nope, it still ends up in the lame box after you’ve used it a few times, and if I’m not mistaken, the pod craze started before the podsets (and ended before I really got started with lugnet). Still, It would’ve taken off again if TLC had made them better (like without strapholders at the sides and in more transparent colours: Why haven’t they made a trans red or yellow to go with the black podparts?

But about those oniondomes, I’ve become so curious that I have to buy a couple now, given the chance, and then make a few models with them (that I can’t finish in MLCAD) before they end up in the lamebox and it’ll all be your fault. Grr! ;-)

  
  
   I’m sure I’ve gotten more than 300 parts in a bag (mmm, corner slopes), you know, when I’m not getting trees or somesuch.

What kind of corner slopes?? I’m with you on the trees (although I won’t touch them sold by volume!!) the only slopes we got is those nice curved 1x6 ones in black and white.

Red 2x2 45 degree slope bricks. I got over a hundred. As for trees, I worked it out, and by volume (in a bag) I was able to beat the Shop at Home price on them by about 1/3, not including shipping (or gas to get to the outlet:P) The trick is to interlock the buggers. And, of course, fill the gaps with transparent red 1x1 tiles or something ghastly like that.

It is different offers, definitely, it would’ve been nice to have both kinds here in Copenhagen, I wouldn’t mind a couple of bags of trans red tiles… (all ruby spacecraft, maybe with chrome backing for brilliance mmmh!)

   Ooh. I will definitely have to ask about that. Maybe if I could plunder the pertinent bits of the Adventurers sets, I wouldn’t have to wait for onion domes in the mail...

I asked them today, and it was a kind of experiment they didn’t know if would continue, so I don’t if it’ll hit the states... Anyways, it’s about time we get some cheap lego over here, and you guys have had your chance to buy the sets already ;-)

Cheers NB



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(...) I mean Big Ugly (URL) Rock> Pieces. And the equation works for me, btw. (...) Yes, I do need to get to that whole sorting ordeal one day.. (...) You got me there. (...) What if the lame part ends up being integral in a MOC trend? (Like the Pod (...) (20 years ago, 12-Nov-04, to lugnet.adventurers, FTX)

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