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Re: New Lego Soft (only in Dacta)
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lugnet.dacta, lugnet.general
Date: 
Thu, 20 Jul 2000 23:08:55 GMT
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In lugnet.dacta, David Schilling writes:
In lugnet.dacta, Lawrence Wilkes writes:
In lugnet.dacta, Steve Martin writes:
Has anyone checked out these new soft foam bricks?  You can see them at:

http://www.constructiontoys.com/products/lego/dacta/soft/index.html

Pretty wild.  And _very_ expensive.  $2 - $3 per brick.

Steve

The idea of making some life sized furniture from them springs to mind.
Wonder if the interlinking would be strong enough to hold a nice comfy lounge
seat together when I sit in it?

regards
lawrence

My son and I had great fun building with these at LEGOLAND last week.  They
had several hundred of these soft bricks there.  They are strong enough to
hold my weight, but I'm not sure that the connection strength would be enough
to hold you leaning against a back-rest built out of them.  I'll have some
pictures in a few days, once I've developed them.

David -
Where were these at the park?  If they were in Brick By Brick, I missed them
there.  The only place I saw them was somewhere only staff could go, certainly
_not_ open to the public.  Then again, I was too busy to really actually see
parts of the park (no sightseeing - I've already seen it).

-Tim



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  Re: New Lego Soft (only in Dacta)
 
(...) I would say it was exactly half way between the model shop (where the LDRAW and Trains display was) and the park entrance. Specifically, they were in "Duplo Play" - right beside the "Build & Test", and across from "Maniac Challenge" and "LEGO (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jul-00, to lugnet.dacta, lugnet.general)
  Re: New Lego Soft (only in Dacta)
 
(...) They were in Brick by Brick, Tim, down at the bottom of the display cases. They were also for sale in The Big Store, though 4 different employees told me they weren't (They *were*, back in the Duplo section directly behind the cash register). (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jul-00, to lugnet.dacta, lugnet.general)

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  Re: New Lego Soft (only in Dacta)
 
(...) My son and I had great fun building with these at LEGOLAND last week. They had several hundred of these soft bricks there. They are strong enough to hold my weight, but I'm not sure that the connection strength would be enough to hold you (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jul-00, to lugnet.dacta, lugnet.general)

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