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| | | Dear Lego- While talking to some fellow AFOL about connecting two plates together flat side to flat side, I thought wouldn't just be great if Lego came out with a double sided plate. I bet people would go crazy for them, especialy the people in the (...) (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | | | | Re: Double sided plate —Geordan Hankinson
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| | | | | (...) Yes! mecha people would too, SNOT pieces are the best! -Geordan- (...) (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | | | | Re: Double sided plate —John Radtke
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| | | | (...) Perhaps especially since a certain rival named Ritvik has a 2x2 plate with studs on both sides.... John #388 (23 years ago, 27-Aug-01, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | | | | | Re: Double sided plate —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | (...) Which, if they had any sense, they patented! ++Lar (too lazy to go search and see if they did or not) (23 years ago, 31-Aug-01, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | | | | | Re: Double sided plate —Rick Clark
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| | | | (...) Don't forget they also make the opposite: a 2x2 plate with stud holes on both sides. Both pieces are wonderfully useful, and while I build pure, I admit to having gazed at them longingly. Rick Clark (23 years ago, 30-Sep-01, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | | | | | Re: Double sided plate —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | (...) That's precisely why you won't seen them from TLC anytime soon. If Ritvik has them, Ritvik owns the patent--just as they can't make a given LEGO element for a certain number of years (30?) TLC won't be able to make this element until it's the (...) (23 years ago, 30-Sep-01, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | | | | | Re: Double sided plate —Kevin Salm
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| | | | (...) flat (...) a (...) I have a dozen or so 2x2 double-female and a few 2x2 double-male pieces that I believe to be TYCO. I call them gender-changers and find them very useful. There is also a 1x1 round double-male piece which is handy to have, (...) (23 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | | | | | Re: Double sided plate —Fredrik Glöckner
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| | | | (...) Are these plates or bricks? My experience indicates that a stud is slightly taller than half the width of a plate. Hence, a double female connector has to be taller than a plate, I believe. To verify my experience above, try to put a plate (...) (23 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | | | | | Re: Double sided plate —Charles Eric McCarthy
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| | | | (...) True, but Tyco plates are half brick height, so there is room for the studs. If it were done by Lego, they would probably want to make the double-female connector be two plates in thickness. /Eric McC/ (23 years ago, 1-Oct-01, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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