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Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts
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Sat, 26 Apr 2003 17:06:31 GMT
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In article <HDx8oo.14E7@lugnet.com>,
"Allan Bedford" <ExpertBuilder-DELETE-TO-REPLY@apotome.com> wrote:

Anybody else have favorite parts to which you've applied nicknames based
either on their appearance or perhaps their function?

http://guide.lugnet.com/partsref/search.cgi?q=4070
I've always thought of these as "electric eyes", even though I can't
recall having ever seen them used as such in an official set. That's
just what they always looked like to me. And since my youth was spent
almost entirely in Classic Space, I hadn't seen them used as headlights
until after my Dark Age.

--
Mark D. McKean - The Quantum Panda - qpanda@quantumpanda.com



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  Re: Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts
 
"Mark D. McKean" <qpanda@quantumpanda.com> wrote in message news:qpanda-309110.1...net.com... (...) the modelmakers at LEGO (well Legoland Windsor at least) call these 'washing machines'. -- James Stacey ------ www.minifig.co.uk Lugnet Member #925 (...) (21 years ago, 28-Apr-03, to lugnet.general)

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  Nicknames for favorite LEGO parts
 
At the risk of branding myself a bigger geek than I already am, I have decided to post this anyway. :) While I'm building a model or sorting pieces, I sometimes refer to certain of my favorite pieces by a nickname... based on what that piece reminds (...) (21 years ago, 25-Apr-03, to lugnet.general) ! 

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