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I just won an auction assortment of LEGO that includes (18) 3x3 low sloped outside corner bricks in yellow. I checked with our Rob Farver (the LEGO sloped bricks expert), and he also had never heard of them. Anyone here in LUGNET have any clue as to (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) 7740 Intercity Train had four, I think. I don't think anything else ever came with any. (...) I do not know of Grey, and the blue ones are from Ninja, not Star Wars. ;) (...) It seems like they'd almost be too small. It would be nice though. (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Thanks Jeff. That 7740 Intercity Train is also the one that has those rare grey 2x2 windows. You're right about the blue corner slopes. It's a Ninja (I knew it was a 1999 set) set that has them. Gary Istok (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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Well I checked Kevin Loch's instructions for 7740 (Intercity Train), and yes there are yellow 3x3 low sloped corner bricks in that set (4 of them) as part of the roof of the Locomotive. But I'll bet that they exist somewhere else......... Gary Istok (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Which makes me ask something I have wondered for a while... why is that piece called a "gable end" piece when when it's used for making a roof that has no gables?? Kevin (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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Found 4 in my collection. They may have come from one FreeStyle set, probably the set in the very large box that comes with a green 14-inch x 17-inch terraced plastic hill with indents for small base plates. Sorry about not still having the box for (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Kevin, I was using the term that Rob Farver (the king of the sloped bricks) used in the past. He also used "gable connector" to describe the 2x2 peak piece with what looks like someone took a bite out of it. Gary Istok (25 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) I think it's called "gabled" because it is an otherwise normal 1x2 roof piece with a gabled overhang on one side, ie a vertical triangle like a gabled roof. So that name refers to the appearance of the piece not it's actual function which is (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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Gary Istok (gistok@umich.edu) wrote: : I just won an auction assortment of LEGO that includes (18) 3x3 low : sloped outside corner bricks in yellow. I checked with our Rob Farver : (the LEGO sloped bricks expert), and he also had never heard of (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) This isn't the piece I was referring to... the one you just described is the one Gary said Rob F calls a "gable connector"... which is another misnomer, I think, since it connects rof peaks, not gables (which are at the outer end of a piece of (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) I have tons of black Tyco 1 x 3 slopes - probably as many as actual LEGO ones. It's a pity that the Tyco slopes have the extra ridge halfway down the slope which makes the look good only for roofing. (Even though most people here think that (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Right, gotcha. Sorry for the confusion. I agree with you, the name "gable end" for that piece is confusing. What's better? 1x2 hip roof end? 1x2 half pyramid? Or the LDRAW name, Slope Brick 45 1 x 2 Triple? I don't know. John C. ps. To muddy (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) I agree with you about the building quality of TYCO. Head-and-shoulders above any other clone brand. But they didn't round off the edges of pieces like LEGO does. This partially a visual difference (the studs look especially odd without (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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(...) Luckily, no they're not Tyco. The seller, who lives in Israel, used to work for LEGO, and got these in a special order. (SPECIAL ORDER???...???!!!!!) Gary Istok (25 years ago, 7-Jun-99, to lugnet.build)
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