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Re: Bugs found in Insectoids!
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Sat, 5 Apr 2003 20:38:09 GMT
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so wierd... are those silverfish? i'd hate to think that i have a bug in
the mix.
-tk
"Tobbe Arnesson" <StPnAtM@lotek.nu> wrote in message
news:HCroHy.EKo@lugnet.com...
> Hi all!
>
> I've bought three of the larger Insectoids sets used [1] and they arrived • in
> the mail today. Eager to see what I had bought I opened the box and • started
> investigating the parts. The models were still partly assembled so I began
> taking them apart with the purpose to clean them (I always do when I buy • used
> bricks).
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> To my amusement I found bug nests inside the middle hole of two of these • parts:
> http://peeron.com/inv/parts/6061
> (Brick 2 x 4 x 2 with Holes)
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> I cleaned them out and remember squashing a fly that was crawling on the • table
> where I had sat the box down, perhaps unrelated but it's still a tad to • early
> in spring for bugs in Sweden.
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> I continued the process of taking bricks apart when it occured to me the • irony
> of bugs in the Insectoid models. I started regretting not taking photos of • the
> bugs but luckily (?) found three more!
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/4905354/Misc/insectoidbugs.jpg
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> As you can see, one was hiding inside the x-axle hole of that gem brick, • the
> other inside the tube under a 2 x 3 slope and the third inside a stack of • two 1
> x 1 cones.
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> There might have been more of them but I did not expect to find them • despite
> the theme of the models...
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> I'll wash these bricks with more care then regulary!
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> What ever the species they seem to like cramped quarters. The gem brick • was
> attached (and sealed off by those golf ball parts), the holes in the 2 x 4 • x 2
> bricks were sealed in one end by the magnet holders and the cones were • stacked
> and put on a plate. Not to mention they seem right as home inside • Insectoid
> space craft!
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> Has this happened to anyone else, the finding of bug nests in LEGO bricks • I
> mean?
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> [1] The sets are:
> <set:6977> Arachnoid Star Base
> <set:6969> Celestial Stinger
> <set:6919> Planetary Prowler
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> Best regards,
> /Tobbe
> http://www.lotek.nu
> (remove SPAM when e-mailing)
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| (...) I have no idea what they were, but if the thing crawling on the table before opening the packet it was some sort of fly's. Best regards, /Tobbe (URL) SPAM when e-mailing) (22 years ago, 7-Apr-03, to lugnet.fun)
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