Subject:
|
Re: Trivia: The First Junior Brick?
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.general
|
Date:
|
Wed, 24 Jan 2001 01:26:11 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
453 times
|
| |
|
|
Mr L F Braun wrote:
> Does anyone know when the first POOPs (Piece [that can be
> made] Of Other Pieces) appeared in a LEGO set? What were
> they? And were the pseudo-POOPs (like the inverse buckets
> above) that require their POOP nature to perform a function
> really the first step towards the Juniorization we love to
> hate?
>
> Fire away, LEGO historians!
Well I'm no expert but for as far back as I can remember (and was around
in the online LEGO community) the first POOP that people REALLY
complained about was the infamous BURP[1]. Correct me if I'm wrong, but
I believe that the BURP acronym was around long before the POOP acronym,
and that after the BURP (or at least at approximately the same time as)
was introduced, it was a general concensus(sp?) that LEGO was exhibiting
a disturbing trend of manufacturing more different types of POOPs that
decreased the overall versatility of any set that contained said
pieces. Any thoughts or additions?
[1] BURP - Big Ugly Rock Piece
--
-TiM
NB, CA
http://echofx.itgo.com
t_c_c@yahoo.com
3ch0fx
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
 | | Trivia: The First Junior Brick?
|
| Hi all, Today I received a package from Sonnich Jensen in Estonia (Thanks Sonnich!) containing four of the Classic Space trans-dk-blue 6x5x2 inverse 33 1/3 slope "buckets". I love these pieces, but it got me thinking: they're borderline POOPs in (...) (24 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
|
7 Messages in This Thread:
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
