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| | | For me it is: (not in order) 1.technic decorative pannels 2.townjr car bases 3.flexable axles 4.studless fullwidth beams and 5.technic angle connectors (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: what are the 5 worst lego elements? —Simon Bennett
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| | | | | (...) Wait up a bit Johnathan. Can you define what you mean by worst? Possible inferences could be: 1 - Least use in building MOCs 2 - Least representative of the real world version 3 - Most irritatingly common but no real help in building 4 - Most (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: what are the 5 worst lego elements? —Richard W. Schamus
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| | | | | | | (...) <snip> (...) <snip> (...) I cursed aloud when I saw this piece. Rich -- Have Fun! C-Ya! Legoman34 ***** Legoman34 (Richard W. Schamus)... (My views do not necessarily express the views of my employer...) BRICKFEST 2001 IS JUST AROUND THE (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: what are the 5 worst lego elements? —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | | (...) You forgot: 7. Look like they'd be cool, but due to design issues, are irritatingly difficult to use in MOCs. Steve (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: what are the 5 worst lego elements? —Steve Lane
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| | | | | | | | (...) Defining what we mean exactly is a good idea. The list of the worst parts must include the Technic motorcycle steering boss. A 2x2 brick with a protruding arm with the end cranked at an angle. How could you EVER find a use for it. It's also (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: what are the 5 worst lego elements? —Eric Sophie
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| | | | | | | | | 1. I agree about that "Steering Boss" Evan I have tried to find a use for it! 2. I'm not a big fan of those corrogated tubbing either. 3. Those Fin plates like in the Red Technic Super Car 4. ummmm.... 5. eeerrrr...i dunno Eric (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: what are the 5 worst lego elements? —Ross Crawford
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| | | | | | | | | (...) If you're talking about 6553, I've found they're really useful for diagonal bracing - used heaps in my tower crane www.lugnet.com/~469/...towercrane Regards ROSCO (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: what are the 5 worst lego elements? —Aaron West
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) Adding to the list: 1. Robo Containers 2. Soccer Containers 3. Town Jr. Car frames 4. Gatehouse Arch from King Leo's Castle 5. corrugated/ribbed tubing There are others, but most have limited usefulness, but show up frequently in my stuff. (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: what are the 5 worst lego elements? —Jonathan Wilson
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) If you are refering to the throwbot containers then I aggree with you. But OTOH if you are refering to the round roborider cans then I disaggree. They cant be used for building, true, but they make GREAT storage for various parts. (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: what are the 5 worst lego elements? —Jonathan Wilson
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| | | | | | | | (...) I dont think this piece is crap for what its intended for, making motorcycles. (...) The 2 bend angle beam is bad definatly. The corrugated tubing is bad but only in the longer lengths. The small pieces (especially in the silver) can be good (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: what are the 5 worst lego elements? —Geoffrey Hyde
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| | | | | | | | Those 2-bend angle beams would, IMHO, be a LOT more useful if they were shortened so that one half of it is an exact mirror image of the other half. It'd make a great-looking grader blade, as it is it'd be a bit tall on one side, making the curve (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: what are the 5 worst lego elements? —Selçuk Göre
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| | | | | | (...) Actually there are too many bad pieces (almost all of them are post 1996) and some of them are the "worst", from many different points of view. From Jonathan's list, I can say that all the pieces, except Carbase Jr., are not bad from many (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: what are the 5 worst lego elements? —Jonathan Wilson
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| | | | | | (...) The 5H bricks can be bad when used in the way lego used them in the jr sets but answer this: would you rarther lego had used a sticker for the large astronaut picture from classic space? (23 years ago, 21-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: what are the 5 worst lego elements? —William R. Ward
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| | | | | | (...) Hell no! That's the TV set in my latest MOC! --Bill. (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: what are the 5 worst lego elements? —Ka-On Lee
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| | | | | (...) Most definately (...) Like half beams, they are very useful when you need to put another beam right next to it, while stud beam need to be two plates apart. (...) They are also useful when you just need so sort of cage. My take for truly bad (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: what are the 5 worst lego elements? —Jonathan Wilson
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| | | | | | (...) True but it would be better to use 2 half beans for this job... (...) Yes but it would be better for lego to be using the old style connectors that could be connected at any angle... (...) Yep, they are pretty useless. I have far more than I (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: what are the 5 worst lego elements? —Andy Lynch
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| | | | | | | ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Wilson" <jonwil@tpgi.com.au> Subject: Re: what are the 5 worst lego elements? <snip> (...) connectors that (...) Well, remember that the old connectors need an axle with bushings running through them to (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: what are the 5 worst lego elements? —Jennifer Clark
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| | | | | | (...) That's fine so long as you don't need them to be any longer than 7 studs, in which case the beam made from the half beams will be substantially weaker than its single piece equivalent. I superglued a few half beams together to make the (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: what are the 5 worst lego elements? —Ka-On Lee
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| | | | | | (...) I found that piece can have some use for mindstorm creations. If you need to pick up something by an arm that is hard to dig up, e.g. a cube on a flat surface, those pieces can be used as fingers. (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: what are the 5 worst lego elements? —Jennifer Clark
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| | | | | | (...) Yeah, that's a good one, I'll have to try making a grab or something similar out of those. I thought they could also make good crane outriggers with the rubber bit making sure the crane doesn't slide about or scratch your good furniture ;-) (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: what are the 5 worst lego elements? —Wayne R. Hussey
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| | | | | (...) I love to see/hear about how someone has found a use for "that really odd piece", you know, the one that is so "unusable" that it qualifies for someone's list of "worst" ;-) This thread has enabled this for me. Thanks, Jonathan! Based on what (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: what are the 5 worst lego elements? —Robert Graff
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| | | | | | (...) The rareset pieces I have are a lot of 13 "flat" trees (#049 Samsonite Parts pack from around 1968-71) That I recently won by auction. (URL) mrgraff (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: what are the 5 worst lego elements? —Ronald Vallenduuk
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| | | | | | | I guess one of my rarest is the three-piece ladder from 485... or maybe the tailpiece from 698... As for 'bad' pieces: any BURPs, wall-pieces of the 1x2xn sort.... Something I haven't seen mentioned is the pull-back motor. That was fine for a few (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: what are the 5 worst lego elements? —Wayne R. Hussey
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| | | | | | (...) Thanks for your reference. If you like older trees, I am aware of (and have) a half dozen hand painted varieties and there are two trees (have) and a bush (don't have) that are "granulated" and three dimensional. The ones you show also come in (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: what are the 5 worst lego elements? —Ace Kim
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| | | | | how 'bout that single piece car cabin found in the recent adventurures lines? ughhh.. i'd like someone find a use for that thing outside of a car or craft of some sort. ace (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: what are the 5 worst lego elements? —Suzanne D. Rich
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| | | | | (...) Most hated elements: 5. 2 x 16 triple wedge (looks good till I try to use it) 4. the sectional palm tree's evil replacement 'trunk' 3. Jar-jar head 2. the entire SCALA joining system (via 'flowers') 1. tree stump (awful, awful, awful!) Funny- (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: what are the 5 worst lego elements? —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) Yeah, would have been *much* better as three pieces: right- and left-2x6 corner slopes, and a 2x4 slope. (...) Totally agree. (...) Ahh, it's not any worse than most other single-purpose minifig elements. (...) I *like* the new 2/3-high (...) (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: what are the 5 worst lego elements? —Paul Sinasohn
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| | | | | | (...) Got Picture??? I'd like to see it.... Paul Sinasohn LUGNET #115 (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: what are the 5 worst lego elements? —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | (...) Of the headdress? Umm, no. If LUGNET people saw it, I'd be seriously concerned that they'd realize I was a seriously weird nerd. Then again, BrickFest *is* coming up... Steve (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Contest: Unusual use of "bad" Lego elements [was: Re: what are the 5 worst lego elements?] —William R. Ward
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| | | | (...) I agree that many of these are very useless. But creative builders can find uses for these pieces. As an example, consider Greg Majewski's "Beryllium Serf" spaceship: (URL) I would propose that rather than complain about how useless these (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jun-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build.contests)
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| | | | | | Re: Contest: Unusual use of "bad" Lego elements [was: Re: what are the 5 worst lego elements?] —Jonathan Wilson
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| | | | (...) What color and size are these pannels? (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Contest: Unusual use of "bad" Lego elements [was: Re: what are the 5 worst lego elements?] —William R. Ward
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| | | | (...) I have an assortment. I'll have to dig them out to inventory them however. --Bill. (23 years ago, 20-Jun-01, to lugnet.general)
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