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You're right about these youngsters having it good. I remember back around 73' or 74' having to make make due with just bricks and wheels w/a few windows and doors. Now there's more wheels in my wheel box of different sizes than I had wheels all (...) (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Customized pieces (was: Re: The virtues of the 1x1 with side stud)
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(warning: topic drift, note followups) (...) Halfway within the realm of possibility: this would be a pretty good TLG sponsored contest/prize. Design the best new piece and they'll make it for you. Contest submissions could include a written (...) (26 years ago, 16-Jan-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Customized pieces (was: Re: The virtues of the 1x1 with side stud)
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(...) The "Wizzard" hat shoud be in red only. (26 years ago, 17-Jan-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Customized pieces (was: Re: The virtues of the 1x1 with side stud)
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(...) In a similar vein, what I would really like to see is "conversion" bricks for the pitch of a roof. For example, a 3x2x1 sloped corner brick, with the longer side being low slope, and the shorter being medium slope. (visions of rooflines dance (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jan-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Customized pieces (was: Re: The virtues of the 1x1 with side stud)
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(...) Take a look at (URL) red things Are what you are referrring to, I think.. Jasper (26 years ago, 18-Jan-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Customized pieces (was: Re: The virtues of the 1x1 with side stud)
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(...) Hard to tell in that image, but (URL) it clear, yes, that's exactly what I need. New thread: lost pieces that were once in production, but are no more. -- Steve Jacquot sj5w@virginia.edu (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Customized pieces (was: Re: The virtues of the 1x1 with side stud)
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(...) What's even better: you can also put them together, and have a large hole with two doors. (...) Yeah. By the way, the 1*2 plates with H -beam attached lego uses to support the new 9V technic motor, have exactly the same profile as the rails (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Customized pieces (was: Re: The virtues of the 1x1 with side stud)
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(...) Pretty neat. They don't even need two distinct parts: the left door is just the right door upside down (or vice versa). (...) You have to wonder why they ever went away. Lego trains all seem to be based on European prototypes - do Euro-trains (...) (26 years ago, 20-Jan-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Customized pieces (was: Re: The virtues of the 1x1 with side stud)
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(...) Exactly. The sercondary model has them horizontal, for a very flat car with doors on top :) (...) Most are containers, but occasional;ly I do see one or two boxcar types. (note, I'm not a train fanatic, especially RL ones, so that's just my (...) (26 years ago, 20-Jan-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Customized pieces (was: Re: The virtues of the 1x1 with side stud)
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(...) The sliding boxcar doors already exist. There are some in the older 9V train sets, and a few more in the 4.5V and 12V sets. Can't recall exactly which sets they are in. (I'm off line at the moment.) If you need to know, I can check. I seem to (...) (26 years ago, 23-Jan-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Customized pieces (was: Re: The virtues of the 1x1 with side stud)
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(...) 4563 (...) 4564 and this one has a mail bin inside that can be tilted to dump the mail out. (...) (26 years ago, 23-Jan-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.trains)
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