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(...) Okay, yeah, from that specific perspective, I can see that he might have a point. A given set's part assortment has indeed become more specialized, and especially for some of the smaller ones it might be much more difficult to build a (...) (13 years ago, 28-Feb-12, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) like a simple payload glovebox" "The challenging part was using the thick rubber gloves in the containment system because it made me clumsy in building the LEGO space station" That's a pretty decent sized "build-in-the-bag" set. ROSCO (13 years ago, 28-Feb-12, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I spend too much time on Facebook. I very much want to click "Like" to both David Laswell's and Dave Eaton's comments here. As for the argument Dr. Changizi presents, I'm too distracted by the opening of the article, which to any experienced (...) (13 years ago, 28-Feb-12, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Ha! I somehow missed that in the past. Love it! -Hendo (13 years ago, 28-Feb-12, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I think he's probably correct, from a certain perspective. Essentially, LEGO has become a more diverse toy. LEGO from the 60's and early 70's was a VERY free-form toy. There weren't many connection types, so all the pieces essentially worked (...) (13 years ago, 27-Feb-12, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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NELUG recently held an event dedicated to setting the world record for the longest LEGO monorail track. From everything we had seen, the previous record was somewhere around 200-300 linear feet of monorail track, depending on how you counted it, (...) (13 years ago, 27-Feb-12, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.general, lugnet.org.us.nelug) !
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(...) Two things come immediately to mind. The first is that it's really amusing that he's saying that now that there are a much wider variety of parts, it's harder to build something with them. I've got over 40 cars in my collection now that could (...) (13 years ago, 27-Feb-12, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Or the (URL) Principle? JOHN (13 years ago, 27-Feb-12, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Is that a corollary to the Jack Stone Effect? (13 years ago, 27-Feb-12, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) He would argue that the increase in the number of new types of pieces is actually an indication that the LEGO system is getting less flexible. But as you say, the system is designed so that every piece connects to at least one other piece (...) (13 years ago, 27-Feb-12, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Heh. (URL) JOHN (13 years ago, 27-Feb-12, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Have you accounted for the Galidor factor? (13 years ago, 27-Feb-12, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) He says "LEGOs" which makes his work suspect right there. :) Not very rigorous. The paper is from 2001... the piece palette has improved somewhat since then. But generally I'm not sure he's drawing valid inferences/conclusions. LEGO elements (...) (13 years ago, 27-Feb-12, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Less than the one made from Megablox... :) (13 years ago, 27-Feb-12, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Oh, wait a minute... (13 years ago, 26-Feb-12, to lugnet.general)
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Dr. Mark Changizi claims that LEGO sets have reached a point where most of the pieces no longer fit other pieces. Sound crazy? Wait - there's math... (URL) I've actually had an open conversation with Dr. Changizi about this article and the original (...) (13 years ago, 26-Feb-12, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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From space.com (URL) (13 years ago, 26-Feb-12, to lugnet.general)
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Hi, all - For a statistical analysis I'm interested in performing I want to be able to classify LEGO elements based only on their connection type (as opposed to size, shape, color, etc.) For example, for the purposes of my analysis, all pieces such (...) (13 years ago, 21-Feb-12, to lugnet.general)
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| | Contest - ink and color a sketch for a customized lego model
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i'm running a contest over at the bloks forum: (URL) me out by inking and coloring a sketch i've got for a lego project. (to be honest the first prize isn't a lego set but if you're a lego purist maybe you'll get a couple of second or third prize (...) (13 years ago, 21-Feb-12, to lugnet.general)
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(...) This surprises me. A year or so ago I saw an account with around two dozen pics that were a bit racy but not pornographic (fully clothed but with unmistakable "come hither" expressions). The account disappeared within about a week. (13 years ago, 21-Feb-12, to lugnet.general)
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